My experience with a wireless IP camera
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:23 pm
It's taken me a week to figure out a reliable way to have zm work with this camera. I've never used the software before, so I have no other experience with working with a wired camera.
I tried having zm get the data but it was unreliable -- the camera would be deactivated after a while. The one solution I have found that has been reliable is to have a separate shell script running continuously that grabs a frame from the camera (uses wget) and stores it in a file. I then have the monitor set to "file".
One hint I have figured out from this scheme. I don't have zm looking at the frame that I directly grab from the camera. Since it's a wireless connection, the file may be blank for a short period while it's grabbing the frame. I have my script mv the file to a new name right after grabbing it and have zm look at that file.
I tried having zm get the data but it was unreliable -- the camera would be deactivated after a while. The one solution I have found that has been reliable is to have a separate shell script running continuously that grabs a frame from the camera (uses wget) and stores it in a file. I then have the monitor set to "file".
One hint I have figured out from this scheme. I don't have zm looking at the frame that I directly grab from the camera. Since it's a wireless connection, the file may be blank for a short period while it's grabbing the frame. I have my script mv the file to a new name right after grabbing it and have zm look at that file.