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Unable to view foscam fi8918w camera

Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 11:36 pm
by grwong
Followed the steps here:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Foscam
Also the following errors in logs:
05/19/2011 03:27:09.010440 zmdc[18417].INF [Starting pending process, zma -m 1]
05/19/2011 03:27:09.014735 zmdc[18417].INF ['zma -m 1' starting at 11/05/19 03:27:09, pid = 19499]
05/19/2011 03:27:09.038619 zmdc[18417].ERR ['zma -m 1' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
05/19/2011 03:27:09.041056 zmdc[18417].ERR ['zmc -m 1' exited abnormally, exit status 255]

Thanks in advance.

Re: Unable to view foscam fi8918w camera

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 4:25 pm
by grwong
I have gotten one step further. After noticing errors in /var/log/zm/zmwatch.log, I did the following:
chmod -R 777 /dev/shm/
touch /dev/shm/zm.mmap.1
/etc/init.d/zm restart

Now I actually get a Black screen when attempting to view camera. Before I was not getting
anything. If only I can figure out the following error in /var/log/zm/zmdc.log:
05/19/2011 20:19:41.330863 zmdc[24210].ERR ['zmc -m 1' exited abnormally, exit status 255]

Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks

Re: Unable to view foscam fi8918w camera

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 10:59 pm
by themagicm
This is what I followed and I got it working..
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Foscam_FI8918W