Zoneminder installing foscam camera [Closed]

[rodgoslin]

Now I'm past the zmsetup problem, all seemed simple. But it's not The system for adding cameras, in Firefox, seems simple enough, but all I get from it, when clicking on the camera name (outdoor3), is a window labelled "ZM - outdoor3 -feed - Mozilla Firefox". In a box, which looks like it should be displaying the video feed from the camera, which is definitely working, is a uniform deep red, with a small black box in the top left hand corner with white lettering saying outdoor3 and a time and date. If I click in the box, the time stamp disappears. Turning the camera off gives much the same window, but (naturally) nothing in the box. I tried changing the colour from 24 bit to 8 bit, and this time, the same but the colout is mid grey. In another insrtance of Firefox, I have the regular video feed coming from the camera without problems. I was following the advice of an article on how to setup ZoneMinder with a foscam, but that was on Kubuntu, and I don't think the advice applies to Mageia, in all respects.

[doktor5000]

What about asking in zoneminder forums, or looking in their wiki?
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Foscam

[rodgoslin]

I've raised the issue here for two reasons. The first is that the Zoneminder forum does not seem to be frequently used, the second that it possibly concerned the use of Zoneminder on Mageia, since I'd already come across a similar post as to the absence of video. Which although marked as solved, I was unable to gain any indication of how it was solved. I have installe Zoneminder on two of my machines, , the desktop running Mga 3 and a Thinkpad laptop, running under Mga 4. both machines display (or do not diplay) the same problem. No video