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iCam Support / Re: Icamsource keeps crashing on multiple Macs

« on: February 03, 2014, 06:56:08 AM »

Excellent news, looking forward to a workaround and getting back a stable CCTV system.

Thanks
Andrew

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iCam Support / Using time capsule to store movement images

« on: July 31, 2012, 05:00:46 AM »

Hello, I have set icamsource up to store the images detected in movement on a time capsule disk (more secure location etc). This works well as long as the user logging in opens the disk up first otherwise icamsource doesn't store anything there nor does it allow the user to browse the images from icam.

Have I setup this wrong or is this expected behaviour?

Thanks
Andrew

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iCam Support / iCam feature request

« on: March 01, 2012, 10:27:13 AM »

Hello, I have iCam running with mainly TrendNet cameras. some of the PTZ cameras support preset positions. Can I have a request where icamsource supports and implements the preset positions chosen by the user from iCam.

Also a second feature request where icamsource can use the preset positions to auto move the camera around on a timed basis and compare an image from the same position from a previous auto move to work out if there is anything on the image that has changed, i.e. implement automove and motion detection. e.g. I have a trendnet and I want to automove to 3 positions every 3 minutes and check to see if there is any movement based previous images at this position.

Hope that makes sense.
ACL

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iCam Support / Re: icamsource 2.4.1 memory leak

« on: December 02, 2011, 12:07:39 PM »

OK the frame rate for each camera is set to 5.

previous os was snow leopard server and I did used to get quite a few crashes (icamsource would not be running when left for a while) but did not notice a memory leak. All cameras have been rebooted and the problem persists. I am about to load on an older version and try to see if the problem is there. I will also try the current version with the server plist file on a non server.

Andrew

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iCam Support / Re: icamsource 2.4.1 memory leak

« on: December 01, 2011, 09:11:08 AM »

Stefan, I will dig out some more specific details of the cameras etc when I get home a bit later tonight but I am using MJPEG urls for all the cameras and the frame rate for each camera is at the furthest left (better frame rate setting) assuming this avoids the CPU being overloaded but willing to move wherever to get this working/test. I did not have any icam clients running or any connection from icamweb during this test. I will test out the non server version later when I get some more time. I update pretty regularly but only recently (last 15 days) upgraded to LION server and thats when I noticed the issue so have not tried this on an earlier version. I can download and attempt the same test on 2.4 on LION server and let you know the results.

The mac spec is mac mini early 2009 (macmini3.1) 4gb memory 1067mhz DDR3 2.26 Intel core 2 duo.

cheers
Andrew

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iCam Support / icamsource 2.4.1 memory leak

« on: December 01, 2011, 07:30:38 AM »

Hello,

I have updated to 2.4.1 on Mac OS X Lion Server version 10.7.2 and I have noticed that the server has been crashing/locking up a lot lately. I stopped icamsource for a few days and the server remained stable. I am now tracking the icamsource executable and noticed that it appears to have a fairly large memory leak as per below. The icamsource monitors 11 trendnet IP cameras with motion events recorded for all cameras but there are no defined specifically defined motion areas.

memory used at Launch
15.8MB
after 5 minutes
19.8MB
after 10 minutes
28.4MB
after 15 minutes
37.0MB
after 20 minutes
46.8MB
after 25 minutes
57.3MB
after 30 minutes
72.5MB

At this point I am now closing the app as I cannot afford the server to lockup and I cannot monitor the usage all day long.

I am a huge fan of icamsource and really want to get this working in a stable fashion on my OS X Server.
Any chance of getting the app as a native 64bit app?

Many Thanks
Andrew Campbell-Laing