p0g0: the spot style light on the other seems to be different. I don't know if that is a big LED or something else
not_roasted: I saw similar error yesterday. Have you reinstalled or changed your password recently?
p0g0
well, point sources all follow the inverse square law, but field sources do not, so to the exent you lighting extends to "fieldness" vs a point, the total illumination is higher and there are no shadows.
not_roasted
zaim_: no.
KJN
I just installed zoneminder, and out of rabid curiosity I set my display skin to XML. How do I undo this change?
p0g0
But a big spotlight is likely both brighter and has a lens...
zaim_
p0g0: true. So, I guess the ring one is better in theory. Then it's up to the model if it's good enough
KJN: add ?skin=flat to the end of the url?
p0g0
better is a hard thing to say, if you want contrast or shadows, the ring might not be better
zaim_
KJN: like server/zm/index.php?skin=flat
p0g0
zaim_: you can always add more lights.
zaim_
p0g0: true. yeah, I guess some motion sensor with normal lamps would make sense
KJN
zaim_: That did it, thank you!
zaim_
now you can go and change it back :)
not_roasted
you know, I wonder something.
I ran mocord before and had zones set up. I moved to record... but I didn't touch the zones.
wonder if that matters?
p0g0
zaim_: those have the advantage of making the motion detection in ZM work better too.
not_roasted
I plan on getting some dedicated IR lights. They seem to be cheap enough to pick up online.
the advantage to dedicated IR lights is bugs making webs on those lights doesn't interrupt your visibility, whereas spiders like to make webs on cams with IR
so I can be lazier and clean them less frequently <3
zaim_
not_roasted: I'm not sure, but I kind of noticed that if you have plenty of ZM windows open in your browser, and you logout/login in between, then it might trigger that socket_sendto thing
p0g0
yes, but if you get the common PIR triggered lamps, you'll probably use less juice than leaving an IR lamp on all the time.
not_roasted
zaim_: how did you notice that? Nothing was connected to ZM except my laptop, at which point I open the ZM UI, open logs, open montage, and soon enough I see logs appear.
zaim_
not_roasted: I though it was because I had some feed window left open from my earlier session and kind of thought that it still uses some "old session id" or something. Anyway, I then later got rid of the send_to errors by accident
If you go to /var/run/zm.../ the path that is shown in the error message, do you have .sock files there when your feed is not open?
not_roasted
zaim_: I even rebooted my server, which I assume would kill any rogue connections, and went in with just my laptop. Got the socket_sendto errors there again too.
zaim_
and then, when you open the feed, there becomes two new files?
not_roasted
zaim_: I'll have to check when I go home for lunch.
zaim_
oh, okay.
not_roasted
which should be soon once I get this presentation done
zaim_
yeah.. I'm not sure what happened here during the last two days.. quite a much of different combinations of settings :)
not_roasted
random thought of the day
I wonder how many lines of code encompass zoneminder entirely
p0g0 is feeling brain damaged...Frst camera was painless, the second, I cannot even get a static jpg file to work in monitor. I can bring up the tst.jpg in firefox, but choosing File as the Source Type, then giving the path and filename as the source path in the monitor fails...
what kind of camera?
p0g0
The camera proper is a Sony bullet, attached to a DVR that offers the snapshot via http- that all works, curl can fetch the jpg, the browsers can too. That jpg is what I am resorting to since all else fails. I'll curl the image here, then expect ZM to open the jpg file.
not_roasted
ah
p0g0
but, it cannot even open a static jpg...
not_roasted
sounds a little more complex than what I'm used to
I only ever worked with straight IP cameras.
p0g0
it is a pain. The IP cameras are easier, this should have been trivial too tho.
What is odd is that wireshark doesn't show any packets returned to ZM...
It sees the curl transaction fine, but ZM appears to never even ask.
the static file is a real odd thing tho, no transfers, already in the jpg format...
zaim_
sounds crazy. You are doing it hard core.
gnulnx
p0g0: Did you try the libcurl source type?
p0g0
hey, it started out being pretty simple. I've used ZM for a long time, so this should just work. I did try libcurl, it fails pretty silently too. I had logged some buffer errors with that setting, which increasing buffer sizes had no impact on.
so, I am trying the most basic thing possible, and that isn't yet working...
zaim_
Any idea of the Hosafe cameras? Compared to Hikvision?
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Hello, I'm having an issue setting up a webcam on my raspberry pi running ZoneMinder. When I probe the camera I get "Unable to probe local cameras, status is '132'" what exactly does it mean?
zaim_
I don't know. But could you set it as "local" and use "/dev/video0" or something as path?
prozach
Is the API stuff for 1.29 broken on Trusty (ubuntu 14.x)?
I am running into problems getting it to work and the documentation doesn't have a ton of info on troubleshooting the API piece
on the api page I am getting an error about tables missing from the DB
in the db I am not seeing any api anything.
gnulnx
prozach: The API just interfaces with the DB, for example. Please paste a screenshot of your http://zm/api page
Or post that exact error about tables missing
Most likely, the api config file wasn't updated with the correct DB information
OK, so what to look for when monitor 1 (ip cam) is good, but monitor 2 (snapshot|file) doesn't even ask for data? How can a valid jpeg file resident on the local drive with open permissions fail as source type "File"?
roasted
zaim_, home for lunch. disabled updates didn't yield a difference with the socket_sendto errors.
maybe I'll just... let them go. everything seems fine.
just seems strange they populate.
prozach
gnulnx been there done that (installation tl;dr of the install go to this page if you see green it works.) I was waiting for my DNS to update so I can get the exact error.
:-)
one sec
gnulnx, I initially got the "Missing Controller
Error: ApiController could not be found.
Error: Create the class ApiController below in file: app/Controller/ApiController.php" error message
but I then created the ApiController.php with the content specified by the error
huh... rebooting the VM & doubling the cores and available ram worked... now I can monitor a local jpg file... next I'll try the Real Deal
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roasted
so now that I added these 2 additional cams (bringing it to six total), when I'm in montage, everything is fine -- but clicking on a single monitor shows a white screen, as if the feed never loads. Though I can exit out and still see the montage just fine...
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zaim_
p0g0: I read somewhere that the ZM configuration settin "shared memory" should be increased in some cases
so, there might be much RAM left, but the shared memory setting may still be too low and the memory saturates
p0g0
yes, I've encountered that before. It may be an issue.
zaim_
or something like that
ok.
p0g0
the shbuff vals in the kernel
but there was no indication of being near any memory limits, the vm had 1/4 of the allocated ram free.
But the encouraging thing is that all the error messages to date have been erroneous, and tweaking the free ram and such is easy in the VM.
Eureka! And gosh, has it been a long haul. The VM settings and firewall were silent killers... Fixing the wrong problem seldom yields a solution.
zaim_
cool!
this is a happy day!
p0g0
Maybe I'll go buy a Jehoboam of champagne...
and break it over this beloved ZM box...
zaim_
I already rewarded myself by ordering 4 cameras more :)
can anyone point me to a current DB schema for zoneminder?
I suspect that the zm_create.sql is not creating the API tables correctly
or
there is a problem with php
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not_roasted
what's the point of creating groups for cameras?
I saw in the wiki how to do it, but I'm wondering why would I want to?
oh, I'm getting the jist camera groups just allow you to control which users can see which cameras.
I was hoping to find a way to get multiple montage groups, so I can have a montage of the baby cameras, montage of the outdoor cameras, etc. I can't seem to stream everything at once, which is looking like it's a browser limitation.
chrome fails altogether to even show me a montage of six cameras. firefox succeeds, but once I have montage running with all six and I click on any camera, the page that comes up (which should be that single camera I clicked on) is just blank white.
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zaim_
oh.. Yeah, I was wondering the same about the monitor groups
Btw, have you found out a way how to make home surveillance system easily switched between Home/Away modes? So that it does not record while someone is at home
gnulnx
That's pretty easy to do with runstates.
zaim_
hmm.. thanks! have to check
ic0n
I just wrote code for zmu to grab a zone image from the most recent event .
