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Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:01 am**

They seem to have a great range of cameras. Many meeting my needs and budget but I can not find any info on their Linux/Zoneminder compatibility.

Who has one? Is there a more exhaustive list then on the ZM wiki?
I am tempted to buy what I want and see if I can make it work. But having never used ZM before that might be a frustrating and bad idea.

The models I am liking are:

IP7361 - 2MP Day & Night bullet with IP67 weatherproof housing.
IP8332 - 1MP H.264 Outdoor Day & Night bullet with IP67 weatherproof housing.
FD8361L - 2MP H.264 Day & Night Vandal-proof with IP67 weatherproof housing.

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:19 am**

I guess a better question is....what does one have to look for or ask specifically about a camera to see if it is Linux/Zoneminder compatible?
ie a particular way it streams the content, a certain protocol etc?

Posted: **Thu Nov 11, 2010 6:06 am**

Basely it has to output a jpeg or jpeg-stream. It also has to be a standards compliment stream. Meaning headers must be correct.

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Vivotek

Does have a jpeg stream but don't expect a hight frame rate.

But as you can see from the wiki newer versions of zm support video codecs rather than just jpeg.

So I would say you should be ok with Vivotek but start with jpeg first to get zm setup corectly then try rtsp(or video codec) mode.

Posted: **Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:29 am**

Cool thanks.

It seems most of what I have looked at offer an MJPEG and MPEG4 stream (some H.264). It sounds like that is a good key to possible success.

They all offered it over HTTP and HTTPS. Is that a good baseline protocol ZM can work with?

PS. I have pledged. I love Xmarks. Looks like they will have a solution long term now following their blog.

Posted: **Fri Nov 12, 2010 4:55 am**

The Vivotek's I listed do not seem to have a JPEG steam, they all have several video streams

MPEG-4 streaming over UDP, TCP, HTTP or HTTPS
MPEG-4 multicast streaming
MJPEG streaming over HTTP or HTTPS

I have no idea if this is ZM friendly or not

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:15 am**

I am thinking I will go the IP8332 to start with. Only AU$248, so if it is no good, I haven't lost as much. It still does 1280x800 and IP66 rated housing.

I will definitely report back.

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:31 am**

kingofkya wrote:
So I would say you should be ok with Vivotek but start with jpeg first to get zm setup corectly then try rtsp(or video codec) mode.

http://www.abcarticledirectory.com/Arti ... ew/1061839

This review mentions RTSP. So this is a good sign I am thinking..

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2010 6:30 am**

Oh I have ordered this:
http://www.vivotek.com/products/model.p ... 32&tab=spe

AU$248 + AU$18 postage.

Fingers crossed!!!

Posted: **Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:02 am**

hello DaveQB

I'm also interested in buying the IP8332. Can you please tell how does it work with ZM? And are you satisfied with it? Are you running it with H.264 or MJPEG?

thx a lot,

Posted: **Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:53 am**

Hi,

Yes I have it, but I do not have it working yet at all.

I am new to ZoneMinder too.

I cranked up ZMLarch in a VM after installing the camera on the network.
That's as far as I got. Using the ZM web interface I can't work out how to add a Network camera exactly.

I will continue on....

Posted: **Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:04 am**

So I have jpeg working with a little digging looking at the source of the web page.

I can get the video feed on the web interface working. Its a mov stream using the Quicktime browser plugin. Using the Firefox Addon, Downloader Helper, its says there is a stream at /realqt.mov but putting that into the web browser directly does not work. It tries to load a much smaller video and then says video not found.

There 4 streams you can adjust coming out of this camera. So there needs to be a way to access the individual stream in the URL some how.

I found the below, but trying to access http://10.33.33.133/video.mjpg etc does not work, it comes back with a 400 error:

This session is rejected by session manager caused by The fix stream codec is not MJPEG

Trying RTSP with path live4.sdp etc does not work either.

I feel I am really close

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system_hostname='camera01'
system_ledoff='0'
system_lowlight='1'
system_date='2010/12/11'
system_time='22:24:00'
system_datetime=''
system_ntp='ntp'
system_timezoneindex='400'
system_daylight_enable='1'
system_daylight_dstactualmode='3'
system_daylight_auto_begintime='2010/10/31 02:00:00'
system_daylight_auto_endtime='2011/03/27 03:00:00'
system_daylight_timezones=',-360,-320,-280,-240,-241,-200,-201,-160,-140,-120,-80,-40,0,40,41,80,81,82,83,120,140,380,400,480'
system_updateinterval='3600'
system_info_modelname='IP8332'
system_info_extendedmodelname='IP8332'
system_info_serialnumber='0002D10E0D8F'
system_info_firmwareversion='IP8332-VVTK-0101a'
system_info_language_count='9'
system_info_language_i0='English'
system_info_language_i1='Deutsch'
system_info_language_i2='EspaÃ±ol'
system_info_language_i3='FranÃ§ais'
system_info_language_i4='Italiano'
system_info_language_i5='æ—¥æœ¬èªž'
system_info_language_i6='PortuguÃªs'
system_info_language_i7='ç®€ä½“ä¸æ–‡'
system_info_language_i8='ç¹

Posted: **Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:16 pm**

hello,

I just attract attention on two points of your settings like the Remote Host Name. If your camera is password protected you maybe should use:
CamUser:CamPwd@10.33.33.133

Next point is the Remote Host Path. So I would try to use:
/cgi-bin/viewer/video.mjpg
because /video.jpg means a single picture.

I'm also not sure whether it's necessary to name the resolution at the end of the Remote Host Path like I did for setting up the Axis Q1755 cam.
/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=1280x720

I hope this is helpful

Posted: **Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:47 pm**

Thanks.

I get a 404 on both of those URLs unfortunately.

I wonder is if anyone on these forums have got a Vivotek camera working. I am sure they would share some similarities.

Posted: **Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:51 pm**

Other Vivotek cams are still running with ZM.

Maybe this will help you:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... ea58b69fac

Posted: **Sun Dec 12, 2010 7:46 am**

Thanks junior I have it all sorted out.

Basically, RTFM was the solution. Not the paper one that came with but the PDF user Manual.

I will post later on with a link to the manual and all that I found....