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I recently bought 2 of these cameras.
I installed the pm file for the control.

I couldn't control through zoneminder. I looked in the apache logs and I found a bunch of these errors.

Not very descriptive... and apache seems to be stuck after trying to control the camera.
I tried running the command manually and nothing happened. Re-ran with sudo and it moved the camera. Do I have to change the permissions on zmcontrol.pl? Also my FPS is not that high in zoneminder. Is it due to my hardware or can I change some setting? I set it for high bandwidth.

what is your distro and zm version?
You are one step further then I am, I could not get mine to move, it seems this is a common problem.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and Zoneminder 1.25.0-1.
Just installed using apt-get install.

I used the control file here github /troywill/foscam-zoneminder and put it in here /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Control

Can't post links change github to the full url

Try adding
extension=mysql.so

to your /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini file

I fixed my problem as follows.

Fresh Ubuntu Server Install with only SSH

Install LAMP as per this guide
http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_lamp_for_newbies

Then install zoneminder as per this guide
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... e_easy_way

and it worked.

Last time I had installed lamp server with Ubuntu server install and I think something got left out.

im having trouble when i try to use a new control type.zm recognize default control type (like PanasonicIP.pm) instead when i try to use a new one i suppose that he cant create the zmcontrol sock or something similar.Your solution resolve that issue?
which is the line where i have to add that string in php.ini?

thx in advance