#zoneminder

okay

I haven't checked for anything to do with the api, but sure would love to see something...

and mr. cougar is moving with lighting speed - I told him he needs to get the API working first and last evening he emailed me a working proof along with details I need. So I'd like to do my part now :-)

yeah, I'll add video support into zmNinja

I'm planning on playing with gstreamer and seeing if I cannot montage the webm streams into a single 1080p webm stream

I did not know you were using webm

I'm not

ah

But I can use webm to view the live feeds so its not mjpeg ... But that gets a little clunky when you have 9 cameras going

right

based on what liu sent me, looks like the video branch is storing a mp4 file with H264 in the same deep_storage directory structure

and it seems I need to check for VideoEnabled==1

It does yes

asker: So, zmninja works with what presently?

the jpeg version of images

I haven't focussed on video branch at all, till liu came along

Ok, rexd666 is the author of the video branch

I am looking at your youtube video now

well shortly

asker: That looks really good!

thanks! did you also see the push notifications using the new zoneminder event server? real time !

This needs to be a linux client as well

yes, it can run on desktops with minimum changes

I'm focussing on Android and iOs for now - but will tweak it to run on desktops later

only thing is the gestures/etc are more tuned to touch devices not mouse devices, even though I test the app on my desktop all the time

s anyway, back to video branch:

Alright, When you have something for the video branch message me, I will gladly test on android

how does one figure out which "frames" are "alarmed" when you are storing it as an mp4?

from the database

The same was as you can get a frame from the mp4

what happes if saveJPEG is off

ZM uses ffmpeg to pluck the requested frame out and display it as a jpeg

will it still populate the frames db?

yes, I know that - but that is only if the jpeg images are created

asker: Not sure how it stores the alarms, just know that it does :)

asker: No

nono

no?

I do not store jpegs at all

interesting

but it still stores all frame details in the FramesDB?

And I can still click on a frame and ZM will create a jpeg of that frame (time period) from the mp4 file

and does it show you which ones are alarmed?

So it won't be a "frame" as it used to be, it will be a frame from the video which corresponds with the timestamp

I don't know that detail.. It's possible I guess...

I am a user not a dev

okay thanks. Ah, I thought you were developing too.

but thanks - useful info

I know php, not the rest

inflex: might be able to help he has been hacking the code recently

what? what have I broken?

zmninja seems pretty neat

where can i find more information about the h264 mode?

i have 13 1080p cameras from hikvision, i can't use them at anything more than 2fps because cpu load is too high, no matter what software i use

liucougar - sorry for the delay. Do you happen to have a test server with video working I can get acccess to for zmninja testing?

I have a few questions on the video part - how does on figure out which frames are alarmed and which frames are not in an mp4 file?

Q2: how do you live view a monitor? today I route it via nph-zms

Q1: i don't think that's saved anywhere, however I use secondary stream in motion detection and use SaveJPEGs (the same as before, so it's image based)

Q2: it's still handled by nph-zms

do you need admin access to the zm?

no any user access that can use the APIs and view live is fine (I will start work on in on Monday so no imm hurry)

liucougar : so what happens when you go to ZM events? it doesn't show you how many alarm frames etc?

another user here earlier in the morning mentioned that the FramesDB gets populated even if you don't save jpegs

uhm, ok, but that does not necessarily mean it has the info to know where it is in the video

yes that is the other problem

i will email you details on how to access the zm server i will expose

thx

so to summarize:

currently i don't use video saving with motion detection, but I will try to add that to the server so you can see it for yourself

(video saving is used with always recording cameras)

take a look at how I display alarms and frames

in the video branch, I guess this will not be possible

I'll have to replace that window with a video tag and thats it

no skipping to alarm frames

correct?

for savejpegs monitor, it will be the same, i think

for videos, it would be different, yes (DefaultVideo will be non-empty in this case)

yes

okay fine

for first step, i am happy to just have the savejpegs monitors working

with zmninjia

but that should work without any change

if you download zmN today it should work with all monitors that have saveJpeg based on what I am seeing

asker: i don't see anywhere how i could download it (without compliing it myself)

or did I miss something (I use android)

all you have to do is ask :-) Its an open beta

but I'd prefer folks contact me before downloading so I know how to track

since you have, go ahead and give it a whirl

oh, cool, thanks, will give it a try and let you know how it goes

np

asker: i can set up a ZM box for you at my office i have more than 12 IP cameras setup

red_racer12 you a video branch person too?

id like to be3

*be

i can't find any software that works for me, with many IP cameras

on the phone you mean?

i'd like to record straight to my hard drive, the straight feeds, i think motion detection takes too much cpu load

oh sorry i'm not sure if i understand?

i want to try zmninja, i dont have an android phone right now though, i'll have one tomorrow!

okay, well when you do , I'd be happy to send you a beta link

please shoot me an email when you have an android device and have an API version of ZM working

red_racer12, i record 22 cameras on one 4 core server, and do motion detection on another 22 on the same server

capacity is down to fps and image size.

damn, I just discovered an auto changelog generator for github which generated all of this on its own. Neat. https://github.com/pliablepixels/zmNinja/blob/m...

i thought your app was iOS based

both iOS and Android

oh how is that possible?

its a cordova/ionic app - written in angular JS and uses native platform plugins where needed

some difference between these two new cams and the one ive had a month

can almost see the second hand on the clock 8m away

and that's with pure IR it's pitch black out there tonight

very clear picture

that's excellent, jzaw

i think part of the issue on the first cam is maybe a touch of re-focusing required

also it would be good if i could find the updated firmware ... these new ones have younger firmware

that noisiness i found on the front cam is still there ( i tuned it out a bit by lowering the brightness and contrast a touch)

that's still not bad, better than many

oh and weirdly i found it was switching to b/w + ir way too late

and trying too hard to use gain at dusk/dawn

so i used a bit of electrical tape to cover ½ the sensor hole in the glass ... thus making it switch much earlier