AVtech

AVTech

Other cameras may be similar to those below

AVN257

Notes

This camera works well and can be forced into permanent IR mode which helps with focusing.

It has a real IR filter than physically moves into place when IR mode engages.

It uses a M12 thread CCTV board lens which can be changed.

the camera streams stop if it does not see a clear image or movement for a period of time i.e. if you defocus it can point it at a plain piece of paper the stream in ZoneMinder will stop. Connecting to the camera via VLC will restart the ZoneMinder stream. You should add an hourly cron job to telnet to the camera on port 554 to keep it alive.

On the camera

You need to enable anonymous login. This in in the config > online page; not under users where you might think.

You need to change the FPS to the number zoneminder can support on your hardware i.e. 2-5 fps.

You will need to logout/stop and streams that are running through the VLC plugin.

Once that is done you can proceed to add the camera into ZoneMinder with the following settings:

In ZoneMinder

General

Name: x

Source Type: Ffmpeg

Function: Modect (up to you though)

Enabled: Tick

Maximum FPS: Empty (I had some issues with it lagging when I used values here)

Alarm Maximum FPS: Empty

Source

Source Path: rtsp://IPADDRESS:554/live/mpeg4 (this one seems to be the most reliable)

Other Paths: rtsp://IPADDRESS:554/live/h264 , rtsp://IPADDRESS:554/live/mjpeg

Remote Image Colours: 24 bit colour

Capture Width: 720

Capture Height: 480

Buffers

Warm up Frames: 10

Pre Event Image Count: 10

Post Event Image Count: 10

Stream Replay Image Buffer: 1000

Alarm Frame Count: 2

AVM457ZAP

Notes

This 2 Megapixel camera works.

It has a real IR filter than physically moves into place when IR mode engages.

Has POE (Power-over-Ethernet) support verified with a Zyxel GS1100

Adding the camera into ZoneMinder with the following settings:

In ZoneMinder

General

Name: x

Source Type: Ffmpeg

Function: Modect (up to you though)

Enabled: Tick

Maximum FPS: At your choice, verifed with 8 FPS

Alarm Maximum FPS: At your choice, verified with 12 FPS

Source

Source Path: rtsp://username:password@IPADDRESS:554/live/mjpeg

Remote Image Colours: 24 bit colour

Capture Width: 720

Capture Height: 480

Buffers

Warm up Frames: 10

Pre Event Image Count: 10

Post Event Image Count: 10

Stream Replay Image Buffer: 2000

Alarm Frame Count: 2

AVM542B

Notes

This 2 Megapixel IP camera works.

It has a real IR filter than physically moves into place when IR mode engages.

Has POE (Power-over-Ethernet) support verified with a POE switch TP-Link TL-SF1008P, and a POE injector TL-POE150S

Tested with ZoneMinder v.1.28.1

Works fine with all supported resolutions (1920x1080; 1280x720; 720x480)

Adding the camera into ZoneMinder with the following settings:

In ZoneMinder

General

Name: x

Source Type: Ffmpeg

Function: Modect (or any of your choice)

Enabled: Tick

Maximum FPS: 50 (I limited FPS in the camera interface itself to 10)

Alarm Maximum FPS: At your choice, I left it blank

Source

Source Path: rtsp://username:password@IPADDRESS:554/live/h264

Remote Method: RTP/RTSP

Remote Image Colours: 24 bit colour

Capture Width: 1280 (should be equal to whatever you choose in your camera settings)

Capture Height: 720 (should be equal to whatever you choose in your camera settings)

Buffers

Image Buffer Size (frames): 50

Warm up Frames: 25

Pre Event Image Count: 25

Post Event Image Count: 25

Stream Replay Image Buffer: 1000

Alarm Frame Count: 1