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On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 10:40:50PM +0100, Paul Harrison wrote:
>...
>
> With a camera highlighted you can press MENU (M) to show a dialog where you
> can enable/disable a camera or change it's function Modect, Monitor, Record
> etc just like you can do in the ZM web interface. You can also toggle on/off
> the notification function. If your camera is using one of the functions like
> Modect that detect motion then when ZM changes it's status to Alert or Alarm
> MythTV with show a popup showing the camera. Can be useful to see when there
> is activity on a camera but can get annoying if you get a lot of false
> alarms caused by wind/rain etc. Also unfortunately the current architecture
> of the MythTV video player means the popup wont work when playing something
> :(

Thank you! Nice to know all this. I'll keep exploring.

> The aspect ratio thing is a known problem. Back when the plugin was created
> most if not all camera's captured in 4:3 aspect ratio. I think it was only

Ok, that makes sense. The camera that gets stretched vertically feeds
720p, the one that gets stretched horizontally feeds 640x480 (see
previous post).

> when ZM added support for IP cameras some of which can capture at 16:9 did
> it become a problem. Since it's not something that really bothers me I've
> not really looked in detail at what needs to be done to fix it properly. If
> you only have one camera and it always capture in 16:9 you could probably
> just make the size of the image in the theme you use have an aspect of 16:9
> for now.

At this point I'm still exploring the capabilities, I'll keep at it and
see what I can do. Thanks!

Augustine
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On 07/05/2021 20:54, A. F. Cano wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 09:50:04AM +0100, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> On 06/05/2021 03:00, A. F. Cano wrote:
>>> ...
>>> That was easy! Got it compiled and running in minutes. I now get the
>>> live view, but the image is stretched vertically. The one camera is
>>> running in Monitor mode and the ZoneMinder Console shows it with
>>> Function "Monitor [R]" and Source "/dev/video0(0) [S]" is it normal
>>> for the source being "[S] Stopped"? It seems that the console is just to
>>> see the status and nothing can be controlled from it, right?
>>>
>>> What configuration do I need to do to get the live view with the proper
>>> aspect ratio?
>>>
>> Everything can be done from the console! Hint: much of that line is
>> highlighted against each camera and is a link to a function.
>
> Mmm... I must have something not quite right. To be sure it wasn't an
> issue of versions (mythzmserver from v31 and the rest v30) I installed
> mythtv v31 from deb-multimedia.org on a machine that was running
> bullseye. Very minimal myth config, just the paths to let the server run
> since there's no tuner connected to that machine. I see the same
> behavior. The live view is stretched horizontally on this new machine.
> The camera is only 640x480.
>
>> Click the camera name to get a live view. Click the Source item to see the
>
> This doesn't work on either machine.
>
>> configuration for that source. Click any non-zero number to the right to see
>
> Neither does this (in monitor mode), the source says [S} (stopped).
>
>> selections of the recorded events.
>
> I have no events at this time, the only thing that works on either
> machine is the menu command, that brings the "Edit Monitor Function"
> pop-up (in the Show Console window). In "Show Live view", the menu
> command brings up the pop-up with "Change View" and "Change Camera 1"
> "Chenge View" cycles through 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 views of the same camera 1
> input, suitably stretched. "Change Camera 1" does nothing.
>
> Thanks for the input, at least I have enough functionality to have
> aatisfied my curiosity. I'll keep trying things as time permits.
>
My apologies. From your description I thought you were unfamiliar with the zm console, not the
mythzm plugin. Sorry for any confusion.

--

Mike Perkins

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