[aklug] Re: zoneminder can't find camera?

I struggled with zoneminder for weeks with pretty much the same issue,
using two different types of usb webcams that work fine in other
programs. I gave up on zoneminder and am writing scripts for 'motion'
.. here's a link if interested:

http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Bob Crosby <bob@estimations.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone here is using zoneminder on Ubuntu 11.04
> desktop, or could help me with it. =A0As far as I can tell, it is
> installed properly (I can see the console when I point my browser to
> it), but it can't find my Logitech quickcam, even though other programs
> like xawtv & cheese can see it ok.
> This tells me that uvcvideo is working and that apache and mysql are
> working. I've tried changing every setting I can think of, searched
> ubuntu and zoneminder forums and find that others have had the same
> problem, but have not found any answer that works.
>
> zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v returns:
>
> =A0 =A0Video Device: /dev/video0
> =A0 =A0General Capabilities
> =A0 =A0 =A0 Driver: uvcvideo
> =A0 =A0 =A0 Card: UVC Camera (046d:08c1)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 Bus: usb-0000:00:1d.7-2
> =A0 =A0 =A0 Version: 1.0.0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 Type: 0x4000001
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Supports video capture (X)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does not support video output
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does not support frame buffer overlay
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does not support VBI capture
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does not support VBI output
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does not support sliced VBI capture
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does not support sliced VBI output
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does not support video output overlay
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does not have tuner
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does not have audio in and/or out
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does not have radio
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does not support read/write i/o (X)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does not support async i/o
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Supports streaming i/o (X)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Standards:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 Formats:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 MJPEG (MJPG)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV) (YUYV)
> =A0 =A0Crop Capabilities
> =A0 =A0 =A0 Bounds: 160 x 120
> =A0 =A0 =A0 Default: 160 x 120
> =A0 =A0 =A0 Current: Cropping is not supported
> =A0 =A0Inputs: 1
> =A0 =A0 =A0 Input 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Name: Camera 1
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Type: Camera
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Audioset: 00000000
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Standards: 0x0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Power on =A0(X)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Signal detected =A0(X)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Colour Signal detected
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Horizontal Lock detected
>
> tail /tmp/zmdc.log returns:
>
> =A0 =A009/11/11 13:19:06.129085 zmdc[28582].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0'
> =A0 =A0exited abnormally, exit status 6]
> =A0 =A009/11/11 13:23:56.026508 zmdc[28582].INF [Starting pending process=
,
> =A0 =A0zmc -d /dev/video1]
> =A0 =A009/11/11 13:23:56.028644 zmdc[28582].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video1'
> =A0 =A0starting at 11/09/11 13:23:56, pid =3D 28915]
> =A0 =A009/11/11 13:23:56.029843 zmdc[28582].INF [Starting pending process=
,
> =A0 =A0zmc -m 3]
> =A0 =A009/11/11 13:23:56.031497 zmdc[28582].INF ['zmc -m 3' starting at
> =A0 =A011/09/11 13:23:56, pid =3D 28916]
> =A0 =A009/11/11 13:23:56.119661 zmdc[28582].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video1'
> =A0 =A0exited abnormally, exit status 255]
> =A0 =A009/11/11 13:23:56.120323 zmdc[28582].ERR ['zmc -m 3' exited
> =A0 =A0abnormally, exit status 255]
> =A0 =A009/11/11 13:29:06.082023 zmdc[28582].INF [Starting pending process=
,
> =A0 =A0zmc -d /dev/video0]
> =A0 =A009/11/11 13:29:06.084158 zmdc[28582].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0'
> =A0 =A0starting at 11/09/11 13:29:06, pid =3D 28949]
> =A0 =A009/11/11 13:29:06.176917 zmdc[28582].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0'
> =A0 =A0exited abnormally, exit status 6]
>
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Received on Wed Sep 14 11:34:44 2011