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by mikb
Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:14 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.36.x
Topic: Can ZM control PTZ on generic security cameras?
Replies: 7
Views: 335

Re: Can ZM control PTZ on generic security cameras?

Thanks, install's not so easy though. If I understand correctly, ZM is an OS? That means I can't install it as an app on a desktop and will need to run a VM right? ZM is not an OS -- it runs as an application, with many components, under your existing operating system (e.g. for me, Slackware). It n...
by mikb
Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Hikvision PTZ control
Replies: 19
Views: 18090

Re: Hikvision PTZ control

It's great when someone tells you to check file permissions without specifying what they should be. ... and this is why it's not particularly useful having people feeding AI/bot generated content into the forum. The post you refer to seems to come from a bot account. Unless they wish to post to con...
by mikb
Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:28 pm
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: PC recommendations
Replies: 11
Views: 2296

Re: PC recommendations (Wyze Warning!)

currently the president is pushing to use the wyze cameras without the cloud, storing all the footage on the SD card, Thank heavens for small mercies ;) ... storing on the SD card does at least keep the data under your control. Unless someone steals the camera. Nothing wrong with network connected ...
by mikb
Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:20 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.36.x
Topic: Just rebuilt zoneminder and 7 cameras
Replies: 4
Views: 1261

Re: Just rebuilt zoneminder and 7 cameras

Ok. this shouldn't be that hard to solve, and we have the code to phpbb. So first step is research others having the problem, and if no solution found, we can at least prevent reusing old posts. And filtering urls out of location. Good to hear that ;) -- I hadn't noticed the spam-in-location on thi...
by mikb
Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:19 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.36.x
Topic: Just rebuilt zoneminder and 7 cameras
Replies: 4
Views: 1261

Re: Just rebuilt zoneminder and 7 cameras

iconnor wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:55 pm You mention errors logged, but havn't shared what those errors are.
Of course not, they seem to be recycling other user's posts ... :(

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by mikb
Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: PC recommendations
Replies: 11
Views: 2296

Re: PC recommendations (Wyze Warning!)

explain it to me like I have to explain it to a president of a maker space which thinks he is tech savvy, but has not clue and wants to use wyze cameras instead of a zoneminder setup Well, for a start, Zoneminder and your own choice of IP cameras will never bite you like a WYZE cloud one will. Not ...
by mikb
Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:17 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.36.x
Topic: Database Connection Problem
Replies: 1
Views: 2197

Re: Database Connection Problem

Try this syntax instead, maybe it doesn't understand "HTTP" style port specs and is treating all of it as a "host" (which it clearly isn't) :-

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mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306 .... 
Note, big P for port, little p for whatever you were doing with that ... ;)
by mikb
Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:26 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.34.x
Topic: Mastering ZM motion detection intricacies?
Replies: 2
Views: 2080

Re: Mastering ZM motion detection intricacies?

Before spending time on that, you'd probably have better luck with 1.36.xx, currently at 33 and proposed 34. Nice post though. Do not encourage it. It was a recycled post. https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?p=127164&hilit=Ubiquiti+G3+Flex#p127164 with "daft language" filterin...
by mikb
Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:36 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.36.x
Topic: New ZM Install on Debian - Continuous rc Errors in syslog
Replies: 17
Views: 63992

Re: New ZM Install on Debian - Continuous rc Errors in syslog

Looking at your syslog dump, I notice the mentions of "rc rc0" upwards, in context of a much longer path to a "Provideo PV951" PCI bus device. Registered IR keymap rc-pv951 2024-02-16T11:22:13.891735-05:00 vss-new kernel: [ 13.229852] rc rc0: PV951 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:...
by mikb
Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.36.x
Topic: First Login
Replies: 1
Views: 326

Re: First Login

Hi all. I've installed ZM on a LinuxMint 21.3 OS following the installation guide for Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy). It appears to have installed OK as it says it's active in the terminal when I check it's status. The user guide then says to open a browser (Brave is my browser) & enter http://hostname-o...
by mikb
Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:20 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.36.x
Topic: New ZM Install on Debian - Continuous rc Errors in syslog
Replies: 17
Views: 63992

Re: New ZM Install on Debian - Continuous rc Errors in syslog

the system decides to disregard the suppression rules & start spamming the same messages to the console again Just a theory, but maybe things quitting/exitting is a sign of something fundamentally wrong -- so wrong, in fact, that syslogd/klogd or the equivalent part of systemd ... is exitting t...
by mikb
Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:08 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.36.x
Topic: New ZM Install on Debian - Continuous rc Errors in syslog
Replies: 17
Views: 63992

Re: New ZM Install on Debian - Continuous rc Errors in syslog

OK, looks like I've gotta find and fix the source of this if I'm to have a stable system... ... ssh session from my PC to the server had been disconnected. [console] ... didn't respond to any key presses or the power button. Had to hold the power button in to forcibly kill power and get the system ...
by mikb
Tue Feb 13, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.34.x
Topic: The storage options in ZoneMinder
Replies: 6
Views: 1903

Re: The storage options in ZoneMinder

iconnor wrote: Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:12 pm The AI post above gets most of it right, except for the purge policy stuff. Total lies.
There are a couple of accounts that seem to only post "jovial AI help content". That's one of them ... does that count as "bot content", and is that something that's useful to the forum?
by mikb
Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:28 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.36.x
Topic: Rpi 4B-8G, 2T SSD, 10 IP cams, 203,000 events-Offline
Replies: 11
Views: 93680

Re: Rpi 4B-8G, 2T SSD, 10 IP cams, 203,000 events-Offline

When I touched the aluminum case, I got a large snap and electrical shock from static electricity. The static discharge immediately shut down the Pi5. I would expect that the power supply you are using is a "floating output" (not referenced back to mains earth) and that means the Pi, and ...
by mikb
Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:22 pm
Forum: Non-ZoneMinder Chat
Topic: Pixel shifting
Replies: 1
Views: 1313

Re: Pixel shifting

I have a few wired Lorex cams with this problem, but this happens with other cams as well. I have a short video that shows the problem, but its 100MB so I cant upload it here. If you could watch it, every few moments you'd see the image shifting just a few pixels one way and then another, also the ...