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onvif support
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:37 am
by d.kilshtein
Does ZM 1.27 supports onvif?
Re: onvif support
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 2:31 pm
by iconnor
No, but someone has been working on it. I suspect 1.28 might have it.
Re: onvif support
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 7:15 pm
by d.kilshtein
Thanks but that is a big maybe and a long time to wait. Some cameras are P2P (point to point, I guess) are these supported?
Unfortunately I can't post links (the forum blocks links for new users) but I've seen these on eBay (just copy and paste the item id into the search):
221464000079
121321203972
161317492323
131241857419
221461197679
Will any of these work with ZM?
Re: onvif support
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 10:23 pm
by knight-of-ni
d.kilshtein you are asking the wrong question. The only thing Onvif will do for you is auto-fill in the url and other required fields with the appropriate values. While that in itself is a great feature, it does not answer your compatibility question.
Even with the Onvif api, it will still be up to the existing methods in zoneminder (e.g. rtsp, ffmpeg, libvlc) to actually do the work. In other words, it is entirely possible that the soon-to-be-implemented Onvif api will correctly auto-detect the camera yet the camera still might not work in zoneminder due to some incompatibility with the rtsp, ffmpeg, and/or liblvc methods.
Since that first camera in your list is only $36, I recommend you buy just one for starters and try it. No need to wait until we release a version of zoneminder with onvif support. Yes, that means you will have to figue out the camera parameters, but that is what everyone has to do when the camera is not already documented. Usually, cameras labelled as "onvif" come with documentation that states what their rtsp url is.
Re: onvif support
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 3:32 pm
by d.kilshtein
Thanks a lot,
My knowledge in cameras is very limited. I don’t know which parameters to check, which parameters are more important to compare and which parameters are more important than others for ZM compatibility.
I will buy one camera for testing but the problem here is that i takes about a month till it arrives from China.
I would really appreciate if someone could direct me or recommend which of these 5 models are most likely to work with Z and will provide the most decent picture quality for home security.