#zoneminder

so is the FW8918W unable to be controlled via the zmcontrol.pl script?

Can you control it from the web UI? I've never actually used ptz in zoneminder. Not sure if the .pl script is tied to all the controls or just the automated control

Did you find https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Foscam_FI8918W#If_F...

i can control it through the webui (clicking preset1 goes to preset 1, 2 to 2, etc)

if you can from gui

you should be able with cli

exactly

sudo zmcontrol.pl --id 9 --command=preset_goto --preset=1

is the command im running

and journalctl spits out: Can't access preset_goto member of object of class ZoneMinder::Control::FI8918W

/usr/bin/zmcontrol.pl --id 16 --command=wake

i use that

i dont know about presets

ok wake works

HA

try --command=preset_GoTo

its --command=presetGoto

so the docs are wrong

or each .pm is different slightly

yeah that's what I meant. I get stuck in camelcase sometimes

lol its ok

so i guess, can i contribute to the docs?

I think it's just your forum login. Never actually looked into it

I remember someone complaining that they didn't want to sign up for the forum but did want to edit the wiki.

well the wiki is depreciated

and it looks like everything is being moved to readthedocs.io

Neat. readthedocs pulls out of git repos.

neat

so i gotta pull, fork, edit, push and wait for a merge?

Looks like it.

aaand you can do it through the web interface and DONE

nice

github web interface or readthedocs?

github web interface

ic0n: I don't think groups is working right now. Looks like storage and the rest are ok but groups brings up no monitors

Hmm... works here. Did you zmupdate.pl?

Yeah. also just updated a seperate one from the ppa

I just fixed populating the monitorIds select when editing a group, but the groups page itself works great for me here.

are there any errors logged?

None that I see.

So the groups page lists the groups... but not the monitors, right?

Groups page works fine, I make a group and everything is good. On console or anywhere I use the dropdown to select it and I get nothing.

Yeah

Hmm... works for me.

It's like the group consists of no monitors so nothing displays on the console. But on the groups page it lists everything fine.

I made three groups. GroupId column in the database is all 0

GroupId column? 0? That's not good.

uh oh... I just tried creating a new group and it didn't work.

ok, update and try again.

mornin

did you see that pos figured out why his h264 passthrough wasn't working?

That fixed it

uh yeah... something to do with avconv

The main thing this release is is api ability to select events or monitors by Group.

Looks like it's working.

On the forum there is this post from Andrew: https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?p=9... indicating there is no way to get zoneminder web interface to join a multicast stream. Is there any way this would be possible, e.g. instead of handing out proxied stream it hands out udp://multicastgroup:port/ for browser mpeg4 view or what have you to play?

or would you need some dedicated client?

Are you trying to view the camera stream without zms?

we currently use dvtel, was wondering if it was possible to have similar model where end users could join camera stream directly for live footage

I'm not familiar with them. I'm assuming it's a full solution, dvtel camera and nvr hardware? I'm pretty sure multicast like that has to be supported on the camera.

I suppose if zm was using a multicast source it could report that address to the browser. VLC can restream any rtsp camera to multicast. Few seconds delay for buffers though

yeah, they were bought by flir

but their software does a native windows client which can play back the h264 directly from a camera rather than asking the recording device for a stream

That requires multicast support on the camera. Not all cameras do that. I can't see a simple way for something like zoneminder to handle it.

<--Not an expert though.

sure, but assuming that the cameras did support multicast I'm guessing I'd still need some client to deal with the multicast

Oh, right. I missed you saying client earlier. Most of the cheap ip cameras I've seen use an activex browser client to handle that. I don't think standard browsers can do it.

most of the cameras are onvif capable and can stream h264 directly over multicast

if not all

I think the built in web interfaces on most ip cameras is using a unicast stream, and a browser plugin of some kind as you say

I know for sure the amcrest plugin can show it's multicast stream. So activex can do it. Looks like silverlight might.

I think multicast support in browsers isn't a big priority for anyone because of iffy net transport for it.

digital-gnome: the watch popup... has a back button... instead of close... it doesn't work.

Right.. clicking on the monitor from console doesn't use a popup. Click on a feed from montage does.

Woops. Missed that popup. On the plus side at least in chrome clicking back crashes the window.

something weird with the events list... the second header is huge...

uh right... custom skin needs updating

Custom skin, not in repo?

yeah

Tesla skin

The view button on events view. Is it supposed to view multiple events? It's broken right now because I missed that it existed and it tries to popup but I can't figure out the purpose.

It passes multiple eids, but even in 1.30.4 they don't do anything.

yeah I think so. The idea is that the event view uses teh filter to know which next event to view next.

hey-o

yo

hi

Where is Andy these days? Haven't seen him in a long time

he got busy with work. They locked in an asylum to do the camera install.

that must be a maddening amount of work