#zoneminder

what are your monitor settings

choose ffmpeg

barjac - not by the user, I think. I'll have to rework the storage strategy

chandoo: oh, I thought it would derive all of that from the ONVIF response

the pendulum; choose ffmpeg

in fact I thought that was exactly what onvif was for, heh

i have onvif cameras, but probe didn't work for me either

hmm when I change the source type to ffmpeg it no longer detects it with the ONVIF probe at all, but that's alright I suppose

if I can figure out what all the other settings need to be

then input the ffmpeg string

I would not loose sleep over onvif, once you know the settings just plug it in. 25-30 FPS will take a cpu hit. it does for me anyway and 8-10 fps it is smooth with low load

compose string like this

I'm a bit confused how this will work together with the cameras own decision making

rstp://

rtsp://username:password@ip:port/location

that is, apparently zoneminder can put a camera in IR mode? but the camera does that itself as well

yeah I really need to determine the username and password, 0 mention of it anywhere so I'm going to go with admin admin

when my nvr is working i had created a user with view only and i use that user in most of the times

not sure about the location in the path

i will give you example string

rtsp://user:abc123@192.168.1.12:554/onfiv1

try without location first

I did find /onvif/media

ThePendulum: I will try first in vlc , if ti works then input into zm monitor

do I select RTP/RTSP/HTTP as remote method?

RTP/RTSP

o, an sql error

rude

?

tony1: is there an xp vm image availabe

Titler:

titler? lol

what is the error

huh, everything I'm seeing is in that paste

i cannot access link, i am in restricted area

oh, sorry

SQL-ERR 'SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect integer value: '' for column 'ServerId' at row 1'

the rest is the entire query which is long and would flood irc

pfleh, I guess I could try running that query manually

did you follow the README.txt and setup your zm properly?

not that I know of? also my cheep cam had a setting of "private data" something to that effect and I disabled it and everything has been running smooth since I did that

should be

this looks more like a bug than anything

i did my setup yesterday for first time, it worked well

i am using my old mariadb

I do wonder if I need to select a server from the Server dropdown

Pendulum : try the string in vlc

because none are listed

oh that should work? I suppose

i dont have any server either

hmm no stream

what is the string

rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.178.35:8080

are you sure about port

no

try 80

let me try 554

8080 is for the onvif request

it supposed be 554

Please enter a valid username and password

are you on linux machine?

well at least it's something

yeah

so it's not admin admin then, heh

do you have nmap?

if not install it

vlc just crashed, good sign

first find out open ports

maybe look here for a URL that works? https://www.ispyconnect.com/sources.aspx

oh wow they got eminents

allot of cams have some very poor documentation

tell me about it :P

I like that they included a quick install manual that refers to the full manual

a manual which simply does not exist

are you using ispy or zoneminder?

I'm trying to use zoneminder

so far only their official app works

I use ZM but you need to find the url's that work'

Most cameras are Onvif compliant. If you have a spare Windows machine, download and install the Onvif Device Manager, and it will tell you what the url should be

pendulum run "nmap 192.168.178.35"

so maybe one of these will work? https://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=Eminent

chandoo: got 81 hsts2-ns, 554 rtsp, 1935 rtmp and 8080 http

so your port is 554 for rtsp

yep

knnniggett: yeah I think I might do that in a minute

try this

I wish their app was a little more transparent

rtsp://192.168.178.35:554

in vlc

chandoo: the URL seems to work but it keeps asking me for a username or password

I might have to email them for that

i doubt they will tell you

maybe something like rtsp://admin:123456@192.168.1.123:554

do you have any nvr/dvr interface

they gave me a card with a Camera ID and password, but that doesn't seem to apply outside their own app

it doesn't work anyway

did you try that

yes, multiple times

try 8080 in browser and see what you get

a SOAP response implying I should use a POST request it seems

does it work through their app?

the camera does, what it's actually requesting and how I don't know

that means you user and password is already there in camera set through app

that should work in vlc

then either it has to be the one on the card somehow or it's baked in

try onvif1/media as location in vlc

or what ever that is

it's unable to open that whatsoever

pfleh, guess I'll just keep trying with the password I have, there must be a typo

i think the password i correct if tha works in app

try different locations

like onvif

onvif1

it is tough with out documentation for the cam. for me rtsp://admin:123456@192.168.1.124:554/mpeg4 works but you need to find the url for your cam

onvif/media

VLC does actually die at some point after entering the password

maybe it is authenticating but then some other issue arises

let me see if I really can't find any more docs for this thing

or maybe similar cameras

what is your camera make and model again

https://sourceforge.net/projects/onvifdm/ may be able to find it or onvif for android when you email your self a debug log may find it as well

yeh try tony1 suggestion

once you get a valid URL ZM works great!! I love ZM

I have allot to learn though

I'm going to try changing the password through the app

the fact it does ask me for authentication makes me think the URL is correct

tony1: does onvif device manager works in windows 10?

maybe you dont have the complete path some might be rtsp://admin:123456@192.168.1.124:554/sp something blah?

that could be, I'd think it wouldn't bother asking me to auth though

I don't know? i don't use windows but have xp home in a VM

no mention of the path in the docs, I'm going to try windows

I happened to find a brand new windows laptop

you would think that when you buy a cam they would provide basic info like the password and some basic urls for communication but they don't for some reason

I guess they want to push their app, but it's free, so I'm not sure why

strange? mine came with the IP address on a subnet that was not mine and a password, that was it. 3 weeks later I had it running LOL

haha

well these things are supposed to be plug and play and I have to give them that, they are

but only if you want to use their app, which just doesn't work properly

I do again wonder how well this camera works with software like zoneminder, aren't the on board functions going to conflict?

it does its own IR toggling, FTP writes and what not

well the one page I linked to has urls so play with them I guess?

I'm trying onvifdm now

hmm the cam got this light sensor, are those typically wired directly to the IR LEDs?

because there's literally no lag whatsoever between the sensor getting dark and the IR LEDs responding

oh onvifdm says the camera thinks I'm in china

or it

onvifdm so far isn't really giving me any useful info, not even sure how to authenticate