#zoneminder

moin

just setup zoneminder working well - recorded first event :)

morning, Haxxa

although using a fair bit of cpu

bhuddah, morning

i hope you like it.

regarding cpu and disk usage there are some improvements in the pipeline for the future.

bhuddah, well in any case I am happy with first test - setup brand new ip cameras and recorded straight away - by chance though could you help me with some queires I am having

sure.

and be sure to read the faq and the docs... there's a lot of details in there that aren't self-explanatory i think.

bhuddah, by the way are you the dev of the software?

no... i'm just a user... doing minor tweaking here and there.

but the devs are on here. though usually later

but i sure see that i can help you as much as possible.

cool - anyway When I set my source I set it as ffmpeg (as thats my camera output) - however the issue is that by doing so my source path contains a password which shows on he web ui rather than showing a simple ip address

interesting. with ffmpeg you usually just see part of the "filename" in the gui

I can't select a remote source as it doesn't work for my ffmepg camera output.

it depends on the formats.

I see under source: "user=admin_password=super_channel=1_stream=0.sdp"

but i work with ffmpeg too. it's usually the best choice.

oh. is that the name of your stream url?

yes

see my issue there

the camera auths in plain text

well. that's a problem then for you. i can see.

usually the url does not contain the username in that way... so i have not seen this...

usually you have [protocol]://user:pass@something....

and that part is hidden.

bhuddah, well my full url is - rtsp://192.168.1.10//user=admin_password=super_channel=1_stream=0.sdp

what type of auth is that? hmmm....

ffmepg stream standard auth?

what happens if you set it in the format that i used?

bhuddah, rtsp://192.168.1.10//admin:super@_channel=1_stream=0.sdp?

no...

ok

rtsp://admin:super@192.168.1.10/some url part here...

what brand of cam is that?

officemax sc10ip

bhuddah, rtsp://admin:super@192.168.1.10/channel=1_stream=0.sdp gave me no output

mhm

bhuddah, checkout this http://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=OfficeOne at bottom is my camera output for sc1oip

*sc10ip

mhm

on a side note would reducing the number of blobs for a chosen area reduce the cpu usage or not affect it too much as I have about 15 blobs defining a zone

uhm?

a "zone" is an area... what do you describe as a "blob" in this case?

as the blobs defining the zone i.e. the shape of the zone

uhm.. okay.

for example my 15 blobs cut of motion caused by leaves

so the vertexes of the polygon?

no. that does not matter...

bhuddah, yes the vertexes - so that will not matter

cool

what about fast vs best when anylesing motion

well. it matters to some extent how you actually set up the motion detection... but i'm not so sure on which factors it really depends. it seems to vary.

how many cams do you plan to use and how much power do you have? :D

bhuddah, I have one camera and a dualcore ubuntu server with 4gb of ram

it seems to use 30% of cpu always

well. yes.

depending on the resolution of the cam and the framerate.

720p a few frames a second

yeah, that sounds about reasonable. motion detection is sort of ... cpu intensive even when optimized.

bhuddah, fair enough

so what do you recomend for the source issue as the pasword is the same for my wifi

I don't want anyone overlooking and seeing password

also it just looks uly compared to displaying the ip address

*ugly

change the password of the cam :)

fair enough

OR... fiddle in the website

but no way to hide really

i mean.. that's hardly a big change in there... do change what is displayed in the code... :)

as in recompile source code

no... for the website you don't need to recompile anything. it's php code.

wait a sec. i'll show you the place.

cool thx

that will be great

that should be located on your machine in /usr/share/zoneminder/ ... / skins/classic/views/...

So I could just chane that too <td class="colSource"><?php echo makePopupLink( '192.168.1.10' ...

if I only plan to use one camera ever

cool thats about all my issues - thanks bhuddah

Haxxa: it's somewhere in that general area... you have to try it.

np

i have not done that change myself until now... but .... it shouldn't be too hard.

ok np

probably you have to look for the "colSource" though.. and not "colFunction"

so it might be a few lines more down.

ok

:)

cheers cya

good luck :)

evening

hey rexd666

hello. I have built zm from git, but there is no usual domain.co/zm URL to visit.

can any one assist with this?

Do i need to create a vhost or is there a built in default somewhere?

figured it out.

did you configure apache?

how did you build it on which os?

hadn't linked sites-enabled with the apache.conf

and built on debian wheezy

did you do it the debian way?

okay. that is good.

:)

any experience with libVLC?

i think you just have to link the zm apache config into the enabled sites and it should work. i don't know what the official supported way of enabling that is atm.

a little.

i'm mostly using ffmpeg.

likewise

we have 1 crappy camera, known to work with VLC

good.

yeah, just can't get it to work with zm

i'm testing the direct recording feature atm... so i have to use ffmpeg atm.

but it works good.

can you get the stream out of the cam with VLC? or ffplay/ffprobe?

yes, with vlc.

and what stream settings did you use... which url?

sorry. i got to go now...

see ya later.

good morning