Hi,

I am wanting assistance with getting Zoneminder working under ubuntu 11.04.
I have ran the install and setup the settings via http://ipaddress/zm
added the camera re instructions.

I cannot view anything via Zone Minder.
Cam is a Logitech Pro 5000

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Blair

followed this link:
http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutoria...ith-zoneminder
and
http://www.howtoforge.com/video_surv...eminder_ubuntu

For that camera you can't just plug it into ZoneMinder directly.

You have to first install MJPEG-Streamer (formerly uvc_streamer) which can stream the image over the network, and then you have to configure ZoneMinder to access it as a remote camera URL with a loopback address.

I ought to add - trust me on this I did this only a couple of weeks ago. Specifically with ZoneMinder and a Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000. Works beautifully.

Hi,

Thanks alot for that
I am not a great Linux admin but would like some help to install this.

Located:
mjpg-streamer-r63.tar.gz
copied to "/streamer"
hence cd /
mkdir streamer
cd streamer
Extract file:
tar xvf mjpg-streamer-r63.tar.gz
apt-get install make

Now this is where I get lost?
Can you assist to make this simple for me and how this is installed.

Many thanks
Blair

Extracted to:
/usr/src/mjpg-streamer-r63/
Contents:
CHANGELOG LICENSE Makefile mjpg_streamer.c mjpg_streamer.h plugins README start.sh utils.c utils.h www

Ran:
sh start.sh
Error:
start.sh: 28: ./mjpg_streamer: not found

Also tried to setup the camera as 127.0.0.1 and still no image

I am rather lost from here now sorry ..


Cheers
Blair

Read the README.

It explains everything.

Hi,

CMD:
root@ubuntu:/mjpg-streamer# tar xzvf mjpg-streamer-r63.tar.gz

Went through the readme and had the following issues:

root@ubuntu:/mjpg-streamer# cd mjpg-streamer-r63/
root@ubuntu:/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63# make clean all
make -C plugins/input_uvc clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63/plugins/input_uvc'
rm -f *.a *.o core *~ *.so *.lo
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63/plugins/input_uvc'
make -C plugins/input_testpicture clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63/plugins/input_test picture'
rm -f *.a *.o core *~ *.so *.lo
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63/plugins/input_testp icture'
make -C plugins/output_file clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63/plugins/output_fil e'
rm -f *.a *.o core *~ *.so *.lo
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63/plugins/output_file '
make -C plugins/output_http clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63/plugins/output_htt p'
rm -f *.a *.o core *~ *.so *.lo
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63/plugins/output_http '
make -C plugins/output_autofocus clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63/plugins/output_aut ofocus'
rm -f *.a *.o core *~ *.so *.lo
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63/plugins/output_auto focus'
make -C plugins/input_gspcav1 clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63/plugins/input_gspc av1'
rm -f *.a *.o core *~ *.so *.lo
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63/plugins/input_gspca v1'
rm -f *.a *.o mjpg_streamer core *~ *.so *.lo
gcc -O2 -DLINUX -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -c -o mjpg_streamer.o mjpg_streamer.c
mjpg_streamer.c:27:28: fatal error: linux/videodev.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [mjpg_streamer.o] Error 1

Ran:
root@ubuntu:/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.

Ran:
root@ubuntu:/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63# ./mjpg_streamer -o "output_http.so -w ./www"

-bash: ./mjpg_streamer: No such file or directory


root@ubuntu:/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-r63# ls
CHANGELOG LICENSE Makefile mjpg_streamer.c mjpg_streamer.h plugins README start.sh utils.c utils.h www

Can you assist with these?


Kind Regards
Blair

You don't have the videodev.h file in your kernel headers.

In Slackware this file is installed in the kernel-headers package. In any other distro I don't know.

Hi,

Can you please guide me with this?
Re: videodev.h file install?

This is not an easy feat in Linux.....

Cheers
Blair

Why don't you at least tell me/us what distribution and version you are running?

Oh I should sorry - Is Ubunbtu Server 11.04 32-bit.

Cheers
Blair

Has anyone managed to get Ubuntu and ZoneMinder working?
Any help additional here would be great if you can assist to resolve this issue as not resolved.

Is it possible firstly and has anyone managed to do this before.

Regards
Blair

Go to the Ubuntu forums and ask there where you can find a package containing videodev.h. Or google for it. It's probably something with a -dev extension, i.e. v4l-dev.