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Hi everybody,

first of all I have to admit, that I'm not very experienced with Ubuntu (Using it (V. 12.04) just as fileserver). Nevertheless I was brave enough trying to use Zoneminder as surveillance-server. The Installation process did work smoothly, but now I'm stuck connecting our camera (Wansview NCB541W) to Zoneminder. Here are the settings I used so far:

Name: C-Cam-01
Source Type Remote
Function Monitor
Enabled
Maximum FPS 5.00
Alarm Maximum FPS 5.00
Reference Image Blend 7

Rem. Prot. HTTP
Rem. Meth. Simple
Rem. Host Name <username>:<password>@cameraip
Remote Host Port: 81
Remote Host Path: /videostream.cgi
Remote Image Colors: 24 bit color
Capture Width 160
Capture Heigth 120

All the other settings I left as they were.

What I achieved was, that the camera log-file shows that Zoneminder accessed the camera. But in Zoneminder itself there is nothing more to see than a hole lot of (error) messages in the log-file:

2013-03-22 14:00:00.375580 zmpkg 10064 INF Command: stop zmpkg.pl
2013-03-22 14:00:00.118618 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:55.508037 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:55.106781 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:54.104124 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:52.901025 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:51.898388 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 2 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:47.888720 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:44.279735 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:43.878398 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:42.875946 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:42.675145 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:39.467242 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:36.666490 zmdc 10035 INF 'zmupdate.pl -c' started at 13/03/22 13:59:36 zmdc.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:36.666480 zmdc 9994 INF 'zmupdate.pl -c' starting at 13/03/22 13:59:36, pid = 10035 zmdc.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:36.644250 zmwatch 10029 INF Watchdog pausing for 30 seconds zmwatch.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:36.643520 zmwatch 10029 INF Watchdog starting zmwatch.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:36.521920 zmdc 10029 INF 'zmwatch.pl' started at 13/03/22 13:59:36 zmdc.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:36.521150 zmdc 9994 INF 'zmwatch.pl' starting at 13/03/22 13:59:36, pid = 10029 zmdc.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:36.464430 zmfilter 10021 INF Scanning for events zmfilter.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:36.459782 zmc_m1 10017 WAR Corrupt JPEG data: 2 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 zm_jpeg.cpp 63
2013-03-22 13:59:36.367820 zmdc 10025 INF 'zmaudit.pl -c' started at 13/03/22 13:59:36 zmdc.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:36.364320 zmdc 9994 INF 'zmaudit.pl -c' starting at 13/03/22 13:59:36, pid = 10025 zmdc.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:36.249570 zmdc 9994 INF 'zmfilter.pl' starting at 13/03/22 13:59:36, pid = 10021 zmdc.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:36.249560 zmdc 10021 INF 'zmfilter.pl' started at 13/03/22 13:59:36 zmdc.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:36.160827 zmc_m1 10017 INF Starting Capture zmc.cpp 191
2013-03-22 13:59:36.143370 zmdc 10017 INF 'zmc -m 1' started at 13/03/22 13:59:36 zmdc.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:36.143370 zmdc 9994 INF 'zmc -m 1' starting at 13/03/22 13:59:36, pid = 10017 zmdc.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:33.038410 zmdc 9994 INF Server starting at 13/03/22 13:59:33 zmdc.pl
2013-03-22 13:59:32.657420 zmpkg 9984 INF Command: start

Does anybody have an idea what the problem is and how it can be solved?

Thanks and Greetings from Rhineland
Olaf

Google is your friend (and the forum search option too):

http://lachlanmiskin.com/blog/2012/06/2 ... rker-0xd9/
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... +JPEG+data

Hope it helps,

PacoLM

Thanks,

Unfortunately only partly. These error-messages are annoying, so its good to know a way to get rid of them. But the main problem is still unsolved: the monitor won't show a picture and I don't know why. It seems Zoneminder has access to the camera and it gets pictures, but can't process them properly.

Olaf

Hi everybody

I solved the problem! For those who have the NCB514W and failed implementing it into zm - here my solution:

The mistake was, that I didn't add user and password in <host path>. So the complete settings which at least work on my system are:

General
Name: <Your Cameras Name> (for example:My_Camera_01)
Source Type: Remote
Function: <choose what you want zm to do>
Enabled: Yes
Maximum FPS: 5.00
Alarm Maximum FPS: 5.00
Reference Image Blend: 7
Triggers: n. a.

Source
Rem. Protocol: HTTP
Rem. Methode: Simple
Rem. Host Name: <username>:<password>@cameraip (username and pw --> camera)
Remote Host Port: <the port your on which your camera is listening>
Remote Host Path: /videostream.cgi?user=<username>&pwd=<password> (username and pw --> zm)
Remote Image Colors: 24 bit color
Capture Width: <Width of camera settings>
Capture Heigth: <Height of camera settings>

All the other settings I left as they were.

Good luck!