Adding an Axiz PTZ camera to ZoneMinder

ZoneMinder has the ability to control a PTZ (Pan, Tilt, Zoom) through it's user interface.

I added a Axis 213 PTZ dome camera to our ZoneMinder server using the following settings (After turning on PTZ in the Options->System tab (ZM_OPT_CONTROL), and restarting ZoneMinder):

General Tab:

• Source type: remote
• FPS: 6.00 (keep this high or you will get a delay in the image)
  

Soure Tab:

• Remote host name: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
• Remote host port: 80
• Remote host path: /axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=CIF
• 24 bit colour
• Capture width: 384
• Capture Height: 288

Control Tab:

• Control Type: Axis API v2
• Control Device:
• Control Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 (mind the ':' and the port number !!)

And now for the tricky part, at least on my system (Ubuntu 8.04) you need to install a special Perl module:

• sudo apt-get install libmodule-load-perl

Took me about an hour to figure that one out!