#zoneminder

good morning

So I've made some progress on a ctrol script for a really crappy cheap netcam called InternetEye

Hey... just noticed something, has anyone else? Using libvlc to grab rtsp... watching the live stream doesn't work. An image comes up, but it's not a stream, just a still.

I've got an unlisted 848A based 4 chip / 16 port capture card. Any tips for getting it working?

So far I've managed to get the first four, or the last four, or the first four mirrored to each channel.

typically you need to get the right model when loading bttv

I have used google image search in the past to identify the board

alternatively I guess you could just try every possible value... not fun.

hello

I have an install of ZM (actually 2---one on Ubuntu 14.04 and one on Debian 7) that just started being unable to create thumbnails in the events list view. I don't believe anything was upgraded to cause it. The log shows:

web_php[1792]: ERR [Can't create thumbnail 'images/8860-042-analyse-15.jpg']

a bunch of lines like that when it should display the thumbs but doesn't.

Where should I look to dianose this problem?

lvlinux: Could that be a file permissions issue? have you confirmed that your web server process has write access to that directory?

Might want to check /var/log/apache2/error.log

hmmm ok I'll check that...

yes! that was it---somehow my permissions were messed up and not writable by the www-data user. did a quick chown on the images directory and now it works fine. Thanks!!!

If you have mounted an entire drive to the /usr/share/zoneminder/events directory then instead you want to just make a dir on the root of that drive called events which has the proper recursive permissions/owner and mount that to /usr/share/zoneminder instead. Otherwise every boot it gets chowned back to root

( due to udev )

lvlinux: ^

ok yes that is good to know---I have a drive mounted on /var/cache, and then inside there is the zoneminder dir, so I should be good from now I think---I hope... :-D anyway thanks for the help and info.