ZoneMinder Forums

Hello everyone, I'm a zoneminder newbie so go easy on me!

I've successfully installed zoneminder 1.25 on CentOS 6.2 AMD64. I followed this excellent guide here:

edit: the forum won't let me post an off-site url.

and it got me going perfectly.

Now it's time to add a monitor. I have an old Axis 2100 laying around that I was hoping to test with, before dropping real money on real cameras. This Axis 2100 works fine on its own. I can browse to its IP and get a live feed. The following URL gives me a live feed:

(camera ip)/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?camera=&resolution=320x240

Now I want to add this to ZM. I click on "add a new monitor", then I select "Probe". From the dropdown of found cameras, there it is. It finds it as "Unknown Axis Camera @ 10.4.4.11". Great. I check the settings, and the IP is correct, the image URL is correct, all looks correct. But when I save it, then click on the monitor from the list, I get a black image and 0 fps. There is no error message, it's just a 320x240 black square.

Additionally, to help troubleshoot this problem, I turned on a setting on the camera to blink the front LED when a live image is being displayed. When I manually browse to the image URL, I get a live feed and the LED blinks. When I click on the monitor in zoneminder and get the black screen, the LED does not blink. So it seems zoneminder is not connecting and pulling the live feed for some reason.

Any ideas friends? Thanks

OK, I answered my own question by trying to connect to the camera from a different computer. The camera has a username and password required to view the live image. I guess it was cached somehow on the other pc, so that i didn't have to type it each time?

The fix is to add username:password@ipaddress in for the "Remote Host Name" on the "Source" tab.

torsionbar wrote:OK, I answered my own question by trying to connect to the camera from a different computer. The camera has a username and password required to view the live image. I guess it was cached somehow on the other pc, so that i didn't have to type it each time?

The fix is to add username:password@ipaddress in for the "Remote Host Name" on the "Source" tab.

Torsionbar,

I just wanted to say congratulations on finding a resolution to your problem (through other searched posts or through your own troubleshoot). But I want to thank you for replying back to your own post with how you fixed it. Not that I didn't know how to do it, but I lurk a lot on forums and a lot of times people will say that they fixed their problem, but don't contribute back to "how they fixed it" to the community. Cheers.

Stonith