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Goodmoring,
i have a problem with my dcs-900 cam.
I use a live-cd distribution of zoneminder (v1.19.5).
from distro i can ping the camera, but when i create a new monitor the image don't appear. I see a black frame or null.
I set in the monitor tab in the remote host name the ip of my webcam, in the remote host port the port 8481 (the trasfer image port) and in the remote host path null.
Is correct?
Thanks.

You need to fill in a value in the path otherwise you will probably get a html page rather than an image. I don't know the exact path you need for a DCS-900 but if it's like a DCS-1000W then either /IMAGE.JPG or /video.cgi should work depending on whether you want single or multi-part jpegs.

Failing that trying searching the forums as I'm sure people have posted the path for that camera before.

Phil

The camera should have a path to a jpg file and you need to put that in the config.
So you should have someting like

host 192.168.0.100
port 8481
path /image/capture.jpg

The port is the only one that can be blank since it will default to 80 if null.
Cheer,
Cordel

Merlo

These are the settings I used in Monitor>Source for a DCS-900

Remote Host Name: <user>:<password>@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Remote Host Port : 80
Remote Host Path : /video.cgi
Remote Image Colours: 24 bit colour
Capture Width (pixels): 320
Capture Height (pixels): 240
Orientation: Normal

Regards!

Thanks....the system work...