#zoneminder

morning

quick Q: I have an old camera that uses the "HTTP" method with "Remote". When I move to ffmpeg instead of remote, what should the URL and method be? there is no http, so not sure if I need to put in an rtsp:// in the url. Anyone know?

this is for the Foscam 1819W. The wiki (which I had originally edited) shows Remote, because that is what I was using

should I do ffmpeg, with URL http://whatever and Type: TCP?

may as well try it out

hmm nope

oh well that was simple

using either TCP or HTTP Tunnel worked, so what is HTTP Tunnel used for, exactly?

if the URL uses http:// won't it always be using HTTP?

I suppose HTTP Tunnel is only useful if the url is not http

like rtsp

Those options are rtsp specific ones so won't be used if you pass a http path

aha, good to see around rexd666_ and thanks

always around just not up as late at night writing code for zm

hola.

amigo

como estas?

beuno

porque?

and that is pretty much the extent of my spanish

-vocabulary

I can't seem to find the option where we can double the text font for timestamp - anyone point me to where in console options? I've cycled through twice

It's under the monitor config on the timestamp tab

AH

thanks

good now I can actually read the time - my in-camera time seems to keep going out of sync, NTP or not

^ must be russian hackers

always a potential cause

Just the other day, I figured my food was infiltrated. I breathed easy when I was told russian salad is an american invention

excuse me as I complete my daily motivation routine...

ic0n ic0n whoa! amazing day! amazing! openCV! API fix! Whoa! ic0n

done

So I did a walkthrough of a friend's house yesterday for a surveillance system, but he is the opposite of techie, so that means Hikvision nvr. No Linux servers for him.

Yeah we really aren't there yet in terms of user friendliness in terms of hardware.

I could build something,l but I can't do it for the price point that people want to pay. Which is $100

To be honest, both Google and Amazon are making home deployments very attractive with their cloud cams

the features are very compelling, a week worth of free storage and no recurring fees

If I did a setup in 2018, I'd absolutely go with one of them

Amz is better here because they've opened up their APIs

(to some extent)

hi all

I am looking at Yi home camera that has cruis setting(so the camera will auto rotate), I don't have the camera yet, but does zoneminder support this out of the box, and what does zoneminder call it? because camera cruising does not sound very intuitive

I don' think ZM has a Yi PTZ script yet. The good part, however, is anyone can write a script for it. Its very simple, if you know what commands need to be sent for each PTZ control. I know some cameras do support auto-cruise and its very easy to add a control command for it

For example, just last week a person submitted a script to control an iOS app which acts like a camera https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/blob/m...

so as long as you know what command the camera needs, you can do it. If its not known, then its a problem

asker: thank you, is there a how to, for writting PTZs

I don't know if there is an official doc, but I had written one a long time ago when I did one for 9831W https://wiki.zoneminder.com/How_to_control_your...

ignore the quick and dirty way. the right way is the long way.

thank you, again , i have only run accross attemps at doing one so far for yi

asker: this is to use with home assistant not sure if it helps much https://www.home-assistant.io/components/camera...

ok. For what you want, you will need to figure out if there is any documentation/reverse-engineering of the PTZ commands though

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/How_to_control_your... <-- this is just to varify camea movements ?

or is the PTZ auo generated as a result of the procedure

these are zoneminder scripts - zoneminder eventually calls one of these scripts to actually control your camera. How to *actually* control the camera will need to be authored for every new camera. So when you move a camera in ZoneMinder, it sends an abstract "moveXXX" command. It then launches one of these perl modules that is expected to have the implementation of "moveXXX"

thank you, this should be more clear when i get it

just to set your expectation though, it doesn't look like anyone has figured out how to do PTZ on their own with Yi based on what I searched. People have managed to hack a custom firmware, but it doesn't do PTZ

are PTZ's manually written, or a result of using the zm gui ?

manually

ic0n: i still don't really understand how to write one

the link provided by asker starts with copy to /user/zoneminder/control/ ... copy what the ptz that you just wrote?

ic0n: do you have any infor on how to write one