I've been trying to get my Logitech C525 Webcam to work with zoneminder. I never get to see any kind of video stream through zoneminder although sometimes it does say there is about 10FPS.

Anyone have any experience with this webcam or have any suggestions for the settings? I've tried a bunch of settings and none have worked so far. Below is zmu output:

@computer:/$ zmu -U **** -P **** -d /dev/video0 --verbose --query -V2
Video Device: /dev/video0
General Capabilities
Driver: uvcvideo
Card: UVC Camera (046d:081d)
Bus: usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.4
Version: 1.1.0
Type: 0x4000001
Supports video capture (X)
Does not support video output
Does not support frame buffer overlay
Does not support VBI capture
Does not support VBI output
Does not support sliced VBI capture
Does not support sliced VBI output
Does not support video output overlay
Does not have tuner
Does not have audio in and/or out
Does not have radio
Does not support read/write i/o (X)
Does not support async i/o
Supports streaming i/o (X)
Standards:
Formats:
YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV) (YUYV)
MJPEG (MJPG)
Crop Capabilities
Bounds: 640 x 480
Default: 640 x 480
Inputs: 1
Input 0
Name: Camera 1
Type: Camera
Audioset: 00000000
Standards: 0x0
Power on (X)
Signal detected (X)
Colour Signal detected
Horizontal Lock detected


Thanks,
John

I don't believe the Mjpeg support has been added yet unless you add Mastertheknife's patch.

Hi bb99 thanks for the reply.

I found Mastertheknife's github that looks like it has a version zoneminder on it. Do I need to uninstall my current version of ZM and build Mastertheknife's?

Thanks,
John

Have a look here: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17652

Pretty much step by step instructions (reading the whole post is a good idea with this one to understand all the changes incorporated). To answer your question directly: it would be the best solution to start over from scratch.

Might want to try this first on current system: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16243&hilit=Logitech+QuickCam+Connect+E2500+089d+

Zoneminder is now able to detect motion in front of my camera. It will log events and save them but the image/video feed is always blank.

Any suggestions?

I can view the stills for the event and it the pictures are clear & perfect. But the stream refuses to work

Oh so close! Which suggestion got you this far? Can't give you a definitive answer but if you pull up a still and check the resolution does it match your values in ZM? Palette is/has been generally a fatal error but worth playing with. Outside chance... try a different browser; IE seems to be a good troubleshooting browser, been issues with Chrome, Opera, and Firefox.

I tried the solution @ http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16243&hilit=Logitech+QuickCam+Connect+E2500+089d+ and added the below code to zmdc.pl



But honestly I'm not sure if that is what got the stills to work. I think that code adds V4L1 support to ZM but my monitor settings drop down menu only has V4L2 as an option.



The resolution of the stills do match my zm values (1280 x 720). Right now I'm on PAL/YUYV settings. I'll keep playing with different settings and maybe the stream will work.

I got it to work! The whole time there was nothing was wrong with zoneminder!

During my install I failed to make a proper /cgi-bin/ link in Apache. I added it to my /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf and made sure my cgi-bin was going to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/.

Yay now it works!

Thanks so much for the help guys.