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I have installed Zoneminder 1.20 on my Fedora Core one server to provide a remote recording systems for future customer services. After several days of getting all the required software utilities.

Anyway, I can bring up the zm.php and login as admin only that's the first thing. Second, the Toshiba IK-WB01A and WB11A both us the "MovieAppet" to see the camera video.

I have setup the Monitor for the remote demo camera I have, but nothing happens other than an anonoying click and a black square where the video should be. It also requires Java2, which I have installed on my server.

Can anyone give me some hints on what I need to do to get this to work with Toshiba Netcams?

Thanks

I've never used any of these cameras. The critical thing is figuring out if there is a url you can use to get direct access to the images. It might mention it in the docs or you may have to have a look inside the applets supplied. Do you have a link to the docs for them and I'll take a look. What path have you used currently in your monitor?

Phil

Here is a snippet of the applet that works, Toshiba is very protective of how they do things. But maybe by looking at the snippet you can see how it may work.

<applet width="320" height="240"
id="MoviePlayer" hspace=0 vspace=0
archive="MovieApplet.jar"
code="MovieApplet" codebase="http://12.218.59.112">
<param name="liveFileName" value="__live.jpg">
<param name="playFileName" value="__play.jpg">
<param name="screenWidth" value="320">
<param name="screenHeight" value="240">
<param name="viewWidth" value="320">
<param name="viewHeight" value="240">
<param name="directControl" value="1">
<param name="userid" value="guest">
<param name="password" value="">
<param name="timeout" value="50000">
<param name="port" value="80">
</applet>
This is used on my website as a demo cam, I am trying to get zoneminder setup as a remote recorder for future customers.

Thanks

www.Okoboji-Surveillance.com

You could try just entering that lot as an url in a browser (or use something like wget) and see what you get back, so try
if I've transcribed correctly, though I doubt you really need all of those params all the time. If you get single or multi-part jpegs then we're in business.

Phil

Cann't test that at this time due to the camera is not operating currently, but I will test it as soon as I get it back up.

Another question I have, in my http log I see that the file zms.smi is not found in my webdir, does this get created when session starts? I don't see it in the installation log.

Maybe, I have installation problems, not camera problems?

I've not heard of a .smi file, can you post the log line?

Phil

[Mon Feb 28 10:39:56 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.50 (Fedora) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Feb 28 10:42:56 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/okoboji-network/zms.smi

I got the camera going again, but I can only get a snapshot using: http://12.218.59.112/__live.jpg?&&& if I do a refresh on the browser I get an up dated jpg.

Suggestions?

A snapshot is fine. If you use that URL with ZM you should get something from it.

Phil

dkinlen,
You might want to check your setting in Options under the paths tab and see what you have set for ZM_PATH_ZMS.
It should be pointing to zms that should be installed where you configured for your cgi directory.

I've had to many problems and have moved stuff all over so I am starting from scratch.

I have removed all modules and now am ready to start over.

During the ./configure I got two warnings one for libavcodec.a and one for libavformat.a

I wounder if this was my problem the first time? Anyway I do have these two modules in /usr/lib along with FFMPEG, why cann't he see them?

With FFMPEG you have to tell it to configure with --enable shared
so that when you do a make install it will install the shared files that ZM is
looking for.
If you have already built ffmpeg, if you cd to the build dir you can run:
make installlibs
and this will also install the files.
Cheers,
Cordel