EyeMax DVR

PhilTechLV · Post by **PhilTechLV** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:53 am

I have an application that I'm trying to get to work in Wine: EyeMax DVR.

Everything seems to work aside from being to intialize the drives (the biggest part) I have no idea what initializing the drives does, I've never seen what it's supposed to do.

I know that the Software is made to be able to write video to drives 24/7, because it's used for security systems.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:47 pm

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:53 AM, PhilTechLV <[email protected]> wrote:

I have an application that I'm trying to get to work in Wine: EyeMax DVR.

Everything seems to work aside from being to intialize the drives (the biggest part) I have no idea what initializing the drives does, I've never seen what it's supposed to do.

I know that the Software is made to be able to write video to drives 24/7, because it's used for security systems.

What do you mean by writing to drives? Does it write to the raw hard
drive, e.g., making its own partition?

Is there a download available?

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-Austin

PhilTechLV · Post by **PhilTechLV** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:07 pm

Unfortunately I'm not entirely sure, I could try to send you the files, but I can't access the download area.

I believe it creates a special partition on the hard drive, if anyone knows how to mount a hard drive directly in Wine I could probably do it that way.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:12 pm

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:07 PM, PhilTechLV <[email protected]> wrote:

Unfortunately I'm not entirely sure, I could try to send you the files, but I can't access the download area.

I believe it creates a special partition on the hard drive, if anyone knows how to mount a hard drive directly in Wine I could probably do it that way.

You'd have to give your user write access to the raw hardware device,
e.g., /dev/sda.

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-Austin

PhilTechLV · Post by **PhilTechLV** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:18 pm

So, it might be possible under the root user?

Is there any easy way to give user (bartent) write privileges to /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:24 pm

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:18 PM, PhilTechLV <[email protected]> wrote:

So, it might be possible under the root user?

Yes, but not needed.

Is there any easy way to give user (bartent) write privileges to /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1

If you've got udev (you probably do), should be really easy. Depends
on how your distro sets it up, but:
http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

should help.

Whether it will work or not, however, I can't say. But that would be
the first step in finding out.

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-Austin

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:29 pm

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 13:46 -0600, Austin English wrote:

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:53 AM, PhilTechLV <[email protected]> wrote:
I have an application that I'm trying to get to work in Wine: EyeMax DVR.

Everything seems to work aside from being to intialize the drives (the biggest part) I have no idea what initializing the drives does, I've never seen what it's supposed to do.

I know that the Software is made to be able to write video to drives 24/7, because it's used for security systems.
What do you mean by writing to drives? Does it write to the raw hard
drive, e.g., making its own partition?

Is there a download available?

There isn't. No time limited trials either AFAICT. EyeMax is a CCTV
recording application that only runs on XP.

To the OP: have you considered using a native Linux package? 15 seconds
on a search engine turned up ZoneMinder

http://www.zoneminder.com/

This looks as it it does most of what EyeMax can do, runs on all the
main Linux distros and is Open Source released under the GPL. Paid
support is available.

Martin

PhilTechLV · Post by **PhilTechLV** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:51 pm

Won't deny that looks immensely complicated. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04

I'm trying to make it where users can write to:
/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdc1

I believe this is what i would add to 40-permissions.rules:

ok... uhmm... nothermind, no idea, this has alot of stuff, anyone know a gui app that makes this a little easier?

PhilTechLV · Post by **PhilTechLV** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:54 pm

Martin Gregorie wrote:On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 13:46 -0600, Austin English wrote:
There isn't. No time limited trials either AFAICT. EyeMax is a CCTV
recording application that only runs on XP.

To the OP: have you considered using a native Linux package? 15 seconds
on a search engine turned up ZoneMinder

http://www.zoneminder.com/

This looks as it it does most of what EyeMax can do, runs on all the
main Linux distros and is Open Source released under the GPL. Paid
support is available.

Martin

I'll check it out, I'm working on this as a work project, we use alot of EyeMax DVR systems and we're wanting to make our own DVRs instead of buying them, we're hoping we can make them considerably cheaper than what most cost right now. I'd like to get this to work this way just because if it can then nobody would have to learn new software.

PhilTechLV · Post by **PhilTechLV** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:57 pm

Found the gui app, I already had it installed, thanks for all the help, I'll look into this and see if it fixes it.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:09 pm

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM, PhilTechLV <[email protected]> wrote:

Found the gui app, I already had it installed, thanks for all the help, I'll look into this and see if it fixes it.

I'm curious, what's it called?

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-Austin

PhilTechLV · Post by **PhilTechLV** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:22 pm

It's called storage device manager.

pysdm is the command line utility version I downloaded it so I could make those harddrives mount at boot.

PhilTechLV · Post by **PhilTechLV** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:33 pm

Ok, well I've got the device owned by the user that's running Wine now, but I can't "mount" that drive in Wine and read anything from winefile or my application. Any ideas?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:38 pm

PhilTechLV wrote:So, it might be possible under the root user?

Is there any easy way to give user (bartent) write privileges to /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1

I'd suggest you NOT EVEN TRY this. Or all your data will be destroyed.

If this program creates it's own partition, you can't emulate that with Wine. You can have some raw disk access but nothing related to file system. And I really doubt your DVR software handles all disk access on it's own.

Can you explain why you need a separate partition to begin with? You sure this software can't write into an already created disk?