How to control your Foscam HD cameras - PTZ

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Why I don't recommend using PTZ in ZM

You probably use zones to detect motion. If you move the camera around, you will mess up zones. Plus ZM's PTZ interface *sucks* :-) It's much better you directly use PTZ from your mobile app using one of the multitude of ipcamera apps available.

Making PTZ work for Foscam HD cameras (9831W, but should work on all others)

Zone minder already comes with a control script called FI9821W_Y2k.pm that does all the hard work. I only had to trivially modify it. the key change I made was that the script hardcodes an authentication login/password in the script. I removed it, and made it so that you can use the "Control Device" field of ZM to specify the password