Saturday, 2 October 2010

Setting up a heterogeneous wireless environment using Openimscore, 802.21 and Asterisk on Ubuntu 10.04: Part - 1

Through this post i'll try to explain how to setup a heterogeneous wireless voice/video calling facility in a closed environment using - OpenIMScore, Asterisk, 802.21, IMS Communicator / UCT IMS Client.

Part - 1: Setting up OpenIMSCore

Step-1
First lets setup OpenIMSCore which act as the backbone for our call session. For you need to install few dependency packages.

$sudo apt-get install ant bind9 mysql-server bison libxml2

Step-2
Now you need to download OpenIMSCore from berlios site. Try getting the latest one using 'SVN'. If you are behind a proxy make sure that you add proxy details in /etc/subversion/servers. Then create a folder named 'OpenIMSCore' in /opt. Change the ownership of the folder to your current user name using chown command and then move to the newly created folder. Once you are in the folder run the following commands to download the files from belios.

$mkdir FHoSS
$svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/openimscore/FHoSS/trunk FHoSS
$mkdir ser_ims
$svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/openimscore/ser_ims/trunk ser_ims


Step-3
By default the access rights set for OpenIMSCore is for local access. Now if you are planning to run clients on separate systems then replace 127.0.0.1 with your system IP address using the following script provided by openims team. I recommend you this step b'coz in future you may need to do this for calling across various clients.

$./ser_ims/cfg/configurator.sh

You can keep the home domain as open-ims.test itself as most of the client devices will be pre-configured using this url. But don't forget to change IP to the one configured on NIC.

Step-4
A sample DNS Zone file is provided by OpenIMS team:- ser_ims/cfg/open-ims.dnszone. So you only need to use it for setting up DNS Zone. Copy the file to /etc/bind and and include the following in /etc/bind/named.conf.local

zone "open-ims.test" IN {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/open-ims.dnszone";
notify no;
};


You also update the /etc/resolv.conf so as to point to the new DNS server. If you havin't played around with your ubuntu distribution much, then i feel its better to update this using GUI rather than command line.

Go to System -> Preferences -> Network Connections. Then select wired -> Auto eth0. Click on the 'edit' button and go to 'IPv4 Settings'. In the 'DNS Servers' column add your IP and in 'Search domains' add open-ims.test

Now restart bind using

$sudo /etc/init.d/bind9 restart

You can check out whether the new configuration works using dig command. Try

$dig open-ims.test

If everything work fine then this will return server as your IP address with a lot of junk info. Dont worry about its output now :) Lets move further !

Step-5
Now come back to your /opt/OpenIMSCore/ser_ims folder. Compile it using

$make install-libs all

Go to your /opt/OpenIMSCore/FHoSS folder. Compile it using
$ant compile
$ant deploy
If all your dependent softwares are installed then i hope you wont have any issues in the above step.

Step-6
Now before running your compiled code, lets setup mysql database for our OpenIMSCore. I hope you might have given proper database password. Now try the following command from your /opt/OpenIMSCore folder.

$mysql -u root -p -h localhost < ser_ims/cfg/icscf.sql
$mysql -u root -p -h localhost < FHoSS/scripts/hss_db.sql
$mysql -u root -p -h localhost < FHoSS/scripts/userdata.sql


Step-7
Using the following commands you need to copy certain files to /opt/OpenIMSCore
$cp ser_ims/cfg/*.cfg .
$cp ser_ims/cfg/*.xml .
$cp ser_ims/cfg/*.sh .
Now your OpenIMSCore setup is ready to run !

Step-8
Try running your pcscf, icscf and scscf components on separate terminals. For this you do

$./pcscf.sh
$./icscf.sh
$./scscf.sh


Make sure you do this on separate terminals.

Now you go to FHoSS/deploy folder and start startup.sh. If you are getting any errors while starting this file, it maybe because your JAVA_HOME environment variable is not set. Try setting it and rerun the same.

Now if every thing is working fine you can see on terminal that the peers are connected across each other !

Troubleshooting:

  • Setkey Command not found
Try, #sudo apt-get install ipsec-tools
  • WARNING:peer_connect(): Error opening connection to to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 3868 >Connection refused
Just run, #/opt/OpenIMSCore/FHoss/deploy/startup.sh

Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Into the Future.....


"At every cross road on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."
- Maurice Maeterlinck

Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Attitude......


“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

~ Charles R. Swindoll


Monday, 18 January 2010

Starting ZoneMinder: Can't open config file '/usr/local/etc/zm.conf': No such file or directory at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/ZoneMinder/Config.pm


This error had wasted half a day of mine............. But ultimately i came to know that its a silly installation issue, which is related to previous installations of zoneminder !

Just go to "/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/" and remove Zoneminder folder manually from there... Thatz it !

Now you can reinstall the debian package & hope it works !

Sunday, 10 January 2010

Interesting Web Collections !


Royalty free geographical photographs:

http://windowsonourworld.com/

Dan Pollock's Site of the day:

http://someonewhocares.org/siteoftheday/

Reference Site of the day :

http://www.refdesk.com/

Online Icon Maker:

http://www.rw-designer.com/online_icon_maker.php

Free online GPL podcast receiver:

http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/

S/W to organizes your frequently used text phrases & paste them into any application:

http://www.phraseexpress.com/

Create you own website for free:

http://www.weebly.com/


Free online file converter:

http://www.zamzar.com/

Textorizer:

http://textorizer.whatfettle.com/

Online image resizer:

http://mypictr.com/

External website monitoring service:

http://www.mon.itor.us/


Check all your email-box from one central place:

http://www.jump2mail.com

Create a free unique photo collage:

http://bighugelabs.com/hockney.php

Free receive only email (For times when you have to receive an email but you really don't want to give one that you actually use. ):

http://www.dodgeit.com/

Free Auto Bibliography Generator:

http://www.ottobib.com/

Really simple ways to share files:

http://www.zapr.com/

561 newspaper front pages from 57 countries:

http://www.newseum.org/


Great place to discover some of the up coming websites:

http://movers20.esnips.com/

Web designers search engine:

http://sparkl.us/

Online Photo Editors:

http://www.phixr.com/

http://www.flauntr.com/


Daytipper: daily tips, tricks and techniques:

http://www.daytipper.com


Picupine : Share photos for a week :

http://www.picupine.com/

Online rich media presentation tool:

http://www.empressr.com/

Google SketchUp to create, modify and share 3D models:

http://sketchup.google.com/

Online foreign language-learning site:

http://www.mangolanguages.com/

File search to search files in various file sharing and uploading sites:

http://www.filestube.com/

One Good Tech Blog:

http://www.labnol.org/

A free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide

http://wikitravel.org/

Free email tracking system that lets you know when the email you sent has been read by recipient:

http://www.spypig.com/

How to do just about everything:

http://www.ehow.com/


Free ebooks:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

To find copies of your content on the Web:

http://www.copyscape.com/

Free uncompress service online:

http://www.wobzip.org/

Write in your own language online:

http://www.quillpad.com/

Encyclopedia:

http://www.eol.org/

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Solving the issue of browser not opening php file (Ubuntu)

Just try the following.....

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
sudo apt-get remove --purge apache2 php5
sudo apt-get remove --purge libapache2-mod-php5
sudo apt-get install php5 apache2 libapache2-mod-php5
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start




Friday, 4 December 2009

Setting up of ACTi ACM 8511P camera in Zoneminder


ACTi Camera Setup 
************************
(You can setup the camera remotely through IP - Just connect as suggested in ACTi manual)
Streaming Method : RTP Over UDP
RTSP Authen Enable: (BLANK)
RTP B2 Frame Enable: (BLANK)
Resolution : 640x480 (Used by my test setup - You can change it)
Frame Rate Mode : Constant
Frame Rate : 12 (Used by my test setup - You can change it)
Encoder Type : MPEG4
Video Bitrate Mode : Constant Bit Rate
Video Maximum Bitrate : Unlimited
Bitrate : 1.2M (Used by my test setup - You can change it)
RTSP Port : 7070
Video Control Port : 6001

Once you are done with the ACTi camera setup now you can open the zoneminder
for streaming the live video to your system.

Just install the zoneminder as detailed below on an Ubuntu PC:
Part - 1
*********
> ACTi work only on Zoneminder 1.24 So we need to use the source files provided
> in the zoneminder website rather then Ubuntu installation

Part - 2
*********
> Download DEB file from
> ftp://ftp.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/1.24/debian/sid/zoneminder_1.24.2-1_i386.deb
> Install it on a Ubuntu PC

Part - 3
*********

ZoneMinder is now in the Debian repositories. There are downloadable .deb
files for Ubuntu for Edgy and Feisty. At this point it is in the
repository for Gutsy. After you install, you will need to do some
additional work, which is documented in the readme file included in the
package.
After installation do the following:

Link Apache
> sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf
Restart Apache
> sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

suid zmfix
> sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/zmfix

Run zmfix
> zmfix -a

Fix export problem
> sudo chown www-data.www-data /usr/share/zoneminder/temp

edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add the following lines (for 128meg shared mem)(**Maybe of use later**)
> kernel.shmall = 134217728
> kernel.shmmax = 134217728

Download cambozola.jar and put it in /usr/share/zoneminder (**Maybe of use later**)

> You should now be able to access the Zone Minder console through the web
> browser http://localhost/zm

For cambozola i think ***
> Enable in options->Images.
> Set path to ffmpeg in options -> Images /usr/bin/ffmpeg
> test with xawtv (-nodga may be needed)

Once the installation setup is done, open zoneminder in your browser and click on
"Add new monitor" and update the settings as shown below:


Zoneminder Setup
**********************
> General
Source Type: Remote
Function: Monitor
Maximim FPS: 12 (Used by my test setup - You can change it)
Alarm Maximum FPS: 30(Used by my test setup - You can change it)
Reference Image Blend : 7 (Used by my test setup - You can change it)

> Source
Remote Protocol: RTSP
Remote Method: RTP Unicast
Remote Hostname: 192.168.0.101 (Used by my test setup - You can change it)
Remote host port: 7070
Host path: live.sdp
Capture Width: 640 (Used by my test setup - You can change it)
Capture height: 480 (Used by my test setup - You can change it)
Orientation: Normal

Once you are done with the settings just save it and open your new monitor which you have added..... Thatz it.. You shall get the stream video on your remote PC.


For performing the PTZ setup on ACTi, i feel till now there is no direct method provided by the company.... but you can try the following method as a work around for the time being.

Goto "/usr/share/perl/5.10.0/ZoneMinder/Control" on your Ubuntu PC and do a back up of "AxisV2.pm" file.

Once its done just open the file using "sudo gedit AxisV2.pm" and replace the content with the following...

# ==========================================================================
#
# ZoneMinder Axis version 2 API Control Protocol Module, $Date: 2008-07-25 10:48:16 +0100 (Fri, 25 Jul 2008) $, $Revision: 2612 $
# Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Philip Coombes
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
#
# ==========================================================================
#
# This module contains the implementation of the Axis V2 API camera control
# protocol
#
package ZoneMinder::Control::AxisV2;

use 5.006;
use strict;
use warnings;

require ZoneMinder::Base;
require ZoneMinder::Control;

our @ISA = qw(ZoneMinder::Control);

our $VERSION = $ZoneMinder::Base::VERSION;

# ==========================================================================
#
# ACTi Control Protocol
#
# ==========================================================================

use ZoneMinder::Debug qw(:all);
use ZoneMinder::Config qw(:all);

use Time::HiRes qw( usleep );

sub new
{
my $class = shift;
my $id = shift;
my $self = ZoneMinder::Control->new( $id );
bless( $self, $class );
srand( time() );
return $self;
}

our $AUTOLOAD;

sub AUTOLOAD
{
my $self = shift;
my $class = ref($self) || croak( "$self not object" );
my $name = $AUTOLOAD;
$name =~ s/.*://;
if ( exists($self->{$name}) )
{
return( $self->{$name} );
}
Fatal( "Can't access $name member of object of class $class" );
}

sub open
{
my $self = shift;

$self->loadMonitor();

use LWP::UserAgent;
$self->{ua} = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$self->{ua}->agent( "ZoneMinder Control Agent/".ZM_VERSION );

$self->{state} = 'open';
}

sub close
{
my $self = shift;
$self->{state} = 'closed';
}

sub printMsg
{
my $self = shift;
my $msg = shift;
my $msg_len = length($msg);

Debug( $msg."[".$msg_len."]" );
}

sub sendCmd
{
my $self = shift;
my $cmd = shift;

my $result = undef;

printMsg( $cmd, "Tx" );

#print( "http://$address/$cmd\n" );
my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET=>"http://".$self->{Monitor}->{ControlAddress}."$cmd" );
my $res = $self->{ua}->request($req);

if ( $res->is_success )
{
$result = !undef;
}
else
{
Error( "Error check failed: '".$res->status_line()."'" );
}

return( $result );
}

sub cameraReset
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Camera Reset" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/admin/restart.cgi";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveConUp
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Move Up" );
my $cmd = "/cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=UP,3";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveConDown
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Move Down" );
my $cmd = "cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=DOWN,3";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveConLeft
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Move Left" );
my $cmd = "/cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=LEFT,3";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveConRight
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Move Right" );
my $cmd = "/cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=RIGHT,3";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveConUpRight
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Move Up/Right" );
my $cmd = "cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=UPRIGHT,3, 3";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveConUpLeft
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Move Up/Left" );
my $cmd = "cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=UPLEFT,3,3";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveConDownRight
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Move Down/Right" );
my $cmd = "cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=DOWNRIGHT,3,3";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveConDownLeft
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Move Down/Left" );
my $cmd = "cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=DOWNLEFT,3";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveMap
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $xcoord = $self->getParam( $params, 'xcoord' );
my $ycoord = $self->getParam( $params, 'ycoord' );
Debug( "Move Map to $xcoord,$ycoord" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?center=$xcoord,$ycoord&imagewidth=".$self->{Monitor}->{Width}."&imageheight=".$self->{Monitor}->{Height};
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveRelUp
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $step = $self->getParam( $params, 'tiltstep' );
Debug( "Step Up $step" );
my $cmd = "/cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=UP,$step";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveRelDown
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $step = $self->getParam( $params, 'tiltstep' );
Debug( "Step Down $step" );
my $cmd = "/cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=DOWN,$step";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveRelLeft
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $step = $self->getParam( $params, 'panstep' );
Debug( "Step Left $step" );
my $cmd = "/cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=left,$step";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveRelRight
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $step = $self->getParam( $params, 'panstep' );
Debug( "Step Right $step" );
my $cmd = "/cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=RIGHT,$step";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveRelUpRight
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $panstep = $self->getParam( $params, 'panstep' );
my $tiltstep = $self->getParam( $params, 'tiltstep' );
Debug( "Step Up/Right $tiltstep/$panstep" );
my $cmd = "/cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=UPRIGHT,$panstep, $tiltstep";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveRelUpLeft
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $panstep = $self->getParam( $params, 'panstep' );
my $tiltstep = $self->getParam( $params, 'tiltstep' );
Debug( "Step Up/Left $tiltstep/$panstep" );
my $cmd = "/cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=UPLEFT,$panstep,$tiltstep";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveRelDownRight
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $panstep = $self->getParam( $params, 'panstep' );
my $tiltstep = $self->getParam( $params, 'tiltstep' );
Debug( "Step Down/Right $tiltstep/$panstep" );
my $cmd = "/cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=downright,$panstep,$tiltstep";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub moveRelDownLeft
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $panstep = $self->getParam( $params, 'panstep' );
my $tiltstep = $self->getParam( $params, 'tiltstep' );
Debug( "Step Down/Left $tiltstep/$panstep" );
my $cmd = "/cgi-bin/encoder?USER=admin&PWD=123456&MOVE=UP,$panstep,$tiltstep";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub zoomRelTele
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $step = $self->getParam( $params, 'step' );
Debug( "Zoom Tele" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?rzoom=$step";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub zoomRelWide
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $step = $self->getParam( $params, 'step' );
Debug( "Zoom Wide" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?rzoom=-$step";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub focusRelNear
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $step = $self->getParam( $params, 'step' );
Debug( "Focus Near" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?rfocus=-$step";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub focusRelFar
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $step = $self->getParam( $params, 'step' );
Debug( "Focus Far" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?rfocus=$step";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub focusAuto
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Focus Auto" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?autofocus=on";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub focusMan
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Focus Manual" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?autofocus=off";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub irisRelOpen
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $step = $self->getParam( $params, 'step' );
Debug( "Iris Open" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?riris=$step";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub irisRelClose
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $step = $self->getParam( $params, 'step' );
Debug( "Iris Close" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?riris=-$step";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub irisAuto
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Iris Auto" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?autoiris=on";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub irisMan
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Iris Manual" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?autoiris=off";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub presetClear
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $preset = $self->getParam( $params, 'preset' );
Debug( "Clear Preset $preset" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?removeserverpresetno=$preset";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub presetSet
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $preset = $self->getParam( $params, 'preset' );
Debug( "Set Preset $preset" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?setserverpresetno=$preset";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub presetGoto
{
my $self = shift;
my $params = shift;
my $preset = $self->getParam( $params, 'preset' );
Debug( "Goto Preset $preset" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?gotoserverpresetno=$preset";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

sub presetHome
{
my $self = shift;
Debug( "Home Preset" );
my $cmd = "/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?move=home";
$self->sendCmd( $cmd );
}

1;
__END__
# Below is stub documentation for your module. You'd better edit it!

=head1 NAME

ZoneMinder::Database - Perl extension for blah blah blah

=head1 SYNOPSIS

use ZoneMinder::Database;
blah blah blah

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Stub documentation for ZoneMinder, created by h2xs. It looks like the
author of the extension was negligent enough to leave the stub
unedited.

Blah blah blah.

=head2 EXPORT

None by default.



=head1 SEE ALSO

Mention other useful documentation such as the documentation of
related modules or operating system documentation (such as man pages
in UNIX), or any relevant external documentation such as RFCs or
standards.

If you have a mailing list set up for your module, mention it here.

If you have a web site set up for your module, mention it here.

=head1 AUTHOR

Philip Coombes, Ephilip.coombes@zoneminder.comE

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Philip Coombes

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.


=cut


Once copied save it and open your Options in Zoneminder - Mark and Save the

> OPT_CONTROL Support controllable (e.g. PTZ) cameras


The open your monitor settings again and there you will find a new "Control option" added up.

Just modify the settings as follows:
Controllable > *Mark this field*
Control Type: AXIS API V2
Control Device : * Just keep this blank*
Control Address: 192.168.0.101 (IP of your cam)
Auto Stop Timeout: 10
Track Motion: (feel this doesnt have any significance now)
Track Delay: (5) (feel this doesnt have any significance now)
Return Location: None (feel this doesnt have any significance now)
Return delay: 3 (feel this doesnt have any significance now)

Also just go to the AXIS page by clicking the 'edit' near control type and
> on the pan page just modify the "Max Pan Step" to 5.
> on the tilt page just modify the "Max Tilt Step" to 5.

Thatz it.... Just save and go to your monitor page. On top you'll find a Control option. Click there... You shall find some conrol arrow below with which you can move your PTZ camera !!!!!

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Just note that this is a quick work around and due to that it doesnt contain any support other than the pan and tilt functionality. Meanwhile i'll try to come up with a script soon so that the camera shall work with its full functionality in a Linux (Zoneminder) environment.
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