I just tested it on another iMac I have in a different room. Same exact thing. When I pulled up the camera and looked at the recorded events, it just shuts down on me. On this machine, I have only the built-in camera that is in iMacs. I don't have the latest iMac, but it is about a generation or two old. I got it in December 2009.
The iMac that initially had the problem has 2 cameras hooked up to it. One is the built-in camera and one is a Logitech camera that is connected via USB.
Apparently the crash report I wanted to attach here is too long, so I will do what I can to send this one, plus others that I can find to the address you supplied. I really really want this fixed so I can use it, but I doubt it will be done in time for it to be useful to me.
I have found that, if I am viewing my cam and recorded events on my iPad 2, when I try to delete the events picture by picture, the app has problems. Specifically, I click on the trash can, hit delete image, and, as far as I can tell, it deletes it. If I, however, try to look at another event after doing this that is listed on the left, it just sits there with a spinner at the top acting like it's trying to find it. I have to back out to the live camera image and then go back into the recorded events to get it going again. Is this a known issue? Is there anything I should know about this? Thanks.
Well, I hate to say this, but I have to do it since it is a beta.
Apparently, this version of the program does not work well enough for me for it to be useful at all. I can start it up, set the zones I want it to watch in the preferences, and leave it alone. BUT, if I try to go to look at the cameras at all, the program quits. Sometimes it will let me choose one and look at it for a little bit, but if I try to look at the motion events it has recorded, the program simply shuts down on me. No error messages or anything. It just quits as if I had done it myself. It happens on both my iPhone 4 and my iPad 2 when using the applications for them.
I have tried rebooting the iMac and everything, but it still does the same exact thing. It is pretty easy to reproduce. Happens all the time on me. I really wish it worked as I need this zone detection portion. I am going out of town and would love to save on the notifications by having it only watch certain areas. Oh well.
Let me add myself to the list of people who would LOVE to have a desktop client. At least put up some code fragments somewhere so that those of us who might be able to do it can get a version up and running.
See, that's the thing, if the hub has its own independent power source supplying all the voltage for each port, then it should not matter if the webcam is on a hub or not. The part of the hub that the computer needs after that is nothing but the data bus itself since the hub is pulling its power from another source. When I tried it in the hub there was nothing else on it drawing power or data other than the receiver for my wireless mouse and those don't require much voltage (but that shouldn't matter because, again, the hub has its own power source) or much data going through the line. I did, however, choose no audio when trying this out and it did not change anything. No, there were no other changes at all in any regard aside from taking the webcam from the hub port to the computer port.
This just doesn't seem to make much sense to me, but I guess it is just how it is. I thought plugging the webcam in to the hub would offer me greater versatility, but if it is just going to have issues, so be it, I won't use it that way.
I am having the same issues as the OP. The only difference is I am on an iMac (brand new, early 2010 iMac). I am trying to use "iCamSource.app" for the built-in iSight camera and a renamed "iCamSource 1.app" on an external Logitech camera (newer version that most definitely works on OS X) connected to a USB hub that gets its power from an external power supply.
If I start up either camera by itself in its respective program, they work just fine. When I try to start the second camera up, the first one continues to work fine, but the second camera just does not come up. If I stop both and reverse the order in which I start them, the first one works and the second one does not. I know this isn't a "driver" issue as OS X doesn't really have drivers that can be updated or anything.
This has worked for me in the past, but when I tried to start it up again in this past week, it just does not work. I don't really know what the problem is, I just want it to work. It is an added layer to my home security system that I would like to get working. Any and all help you can give would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Okay, a slight modification here. I unplugged it from the external USB hub that has its own power source that I have used before successfully and instead plugged the camera into the back of the iMac into a spare port. Now it works....kinda. I am still getting a message every now and then that something happened to one of the cameras....the whole broker connection error bit. This occurs when I am on my home wifi connection and everything is okay. Not sure why it happens, but I don't guess its a big deal. Just would rather be able to use the external hub to do this, but I can always run an extension cord for it.
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