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Review of ACM-5611 and Zoneminder |
June 18, 2008 |
| Reviewer:
Willem Smit
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The camera's technically are quite nice. The 5610 even has an IR filter which mechanically moves out of the way at night, so the IR sensitivity is quite good. The CCD is equivalent to the Sony Super HAD, so performance at night is not as good as the Topica's with the HQ1 sensor. The CS mount however compensates for this as it allows you to improve performance at night with a lower F number lens. Both these features are a major improvement on most IP cameras. Thus technically speking, and considering the price, it is good value for money. Better I think than most of the Axis camera's.
The down part is the software. Acti really relies on the owner to a Windows user, and then with IE7 at that. The mjpeg, they advertise is not yet compatible with ZoneMinder. I had some interaction with a field applications engineer at Acti, and he told me that they are working on it, and that the next release of software, which is due in the next few weeks, will support ZoneMinder.
I did however manage to integrate the camera's with ZoneMinder by using OpenRTSP, ffmpeg and a piece of software called vpipe (check the ZoneMinder forums). The software are not that well documented, so setting it up was a pain. The software (through several pipes) creates a software device point (/dev/video) which ZoneMinder can use. It works quite well, but places an overhead on the machine of the same order of magnitude as a ZoneMinder capture daemon.
The long an short of it is, that the although image is not as good as one of the new generation analog cameras, it is still as good or better than more expensive IP cameras in the day. And it is the first IP camera that I see which, with infra-red lighting, produces a usable image at night. I will definitely buy them again, especially so after the promised software upgrade.
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