Yet another Zoneminder question - and it's a weird one!

[Jim March]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Bob Elzer<bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Where is the video.cgi located ?
>
> Is the server setup to allow cgi in that directory ?

That's on the camera itself.  The controls are fairly primitive...

> If it's in cgi-bin  have you tried adding /cgi-bin/video.cgi

No, this link doesn't work:

http://192.168.0.55/cgi-bin/video.cgi

This one does:

http://192.168.0.55/video.cgi

Again, that's talking straight to the camera's IP address, bypassing
Zoneminder completely.  The problem is, I can't get Zoneminder to see
that feed.

Jim

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On
>> Behalf Of Jim March
>> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 11:33 AM
>> To: Main PLUG discussion list
>> Subject: Yet another Zoneminder question - and it's a weird one!
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I've added two DCS-920 cameras to my setup. Zoneminder box is
>> based off the latest Bluecherry liveCD, ZM 1.24.0 on Xubuntu 8.10.
>>
>> The 920 is a WiFi version of the 910 and I've found very
>> little info on it.
>>
>> I'm running the cameras at 640x480 low-grade JPEG. I can't
>> get more than .65 to .70fps off them UNLESS I have another
>> browser window on some system on the local net continuously
>> query the camera's video feed - in that case, Zoneminder's
>> FPS goes to a more usable state just under 3fps, which I can
>> live with.
>>
>> Before I grab a bell, book and candle next lemme show you how
>> it's working now.
>>
>> From a regular web browser window talking straight to the
>> camera, I can go to a camera's IP address such as:
>>
>> http://192.168.0.54
>>
>> ...and login. From there I can access the latest image snapshot at:
>>
>> http://192.168.0.54/image.jpg
>>
>> OR the camera's continuous video feed at:
>>
>> http://192.168.0.54/video.cgi
>>
>> ...and this line seems to work too:
>>
>> http://192.168.0.54/video.cgi?
>>
>> Getting the camera's video feed gives me a somewhat "choppy"
>> view, as it will delay refreshing every few seconds for a
>> split second...but when it's displaying video, it looks to be
>> about 5 to 8 FPS.
>>
>> (Note: I have static camera IP addresses, and the ZM central
>> box is on the same internal net.)
>>
>> Great. So go over to Zoneminder and it'll work off of
>> /image.jpg just fine, but at low frame rates (under 1 frame
>> per second) unless I have a separate browser window pointing
>> to the camera's /video.cgi feed - then it quadruples to
>> something usable.
>>
>> I can't get zoneminder to see the /video.cgi or /video.cgi?
>> feeds at all - no picture.
>>
>> ZM setup stuff:
>>
>> I've been looking at this thread:
>>
>> http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12233&sid=f51
>> f2ed70b9d332ce9dc9e4a8ce9ca4b
>>
>> ...for the 910 cameras and ZM 1.23 series. In ZM version 1.24
>> I see no way to set anything in Options>Network related to
>> "ZM_NETCAM_REGEXPS"
>> or similar. Am I missing something?
>>
>> In the camera's setup window in ZM I'm doing "source type" as
>> remote of course, "remote protocol" as HTTP, "remote method"
>> is "simple", remote hostname is [username]@[cameraipaddress]
>> (this is behind a firewall so I'm not bothering with
>> passwords), "remote host port" is "80".
>>
>> Under "remote host path" I've tried all of the following:
>>
>> video.cgi
>> /video.cgi
>> video.cgi?
>> /video.cgi
>>
>> Thanks!
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