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Using an SSD for video recording is an BAD idea: you will kill because too much erase-write cycles; don't mind TBW value, it's only an optimistic value: where i work, i replaced some ssd which became paperweight before reaching their rated TBW value (in best scenario, ssd became read only, so i need...

It gets better with h264 storage, as you are only deleting 1 or 2 files instead of thousands. Iconnor, as you told me some time ago, raid5 doesn't boost performance on write; does raid6 do the same? dgossage, how many seconds last an event? I had same issue (with buffer overflow due disk slowness),...

I have a system with 15 cameras. It's running Centos7 and the storage is using zfs raidz6 4TB WD Red drives. @15TB useable space currently I'm starting to run into the issue where I am writing faster than the system is cleaning up the images and directories. I've even taken to writing a cleanup scr...

i'm using an Asus tinkerboard with 1TB 2.5" hard disk.
it's capable of 3x 1280x720 @ 10fps, but 1x1980x1080 @ 5fps

A little late: on DS-2CD2020F-I (HIKVISION), i can disable IR leds (i can set manual IR power, so i have to set to 1%)

However, i live in front of an field with a lot of water, but bugs aren't attracted at all by IR light (only spiders do web near cameras, only because their position).

Hi all, due fan noise near my bed, recently i moved my configuration of 1x NUC5i7RYH with 16GB ram and multiple 2.5 usb3 hdd to an mix of this pc with 2 asus Tinkerboard. NUC is recording 2x1920x1080 IP cameras @ 20fps Both Tinkerboard are recording 3x1280x720@10fps, each board have its usb 1TB 2.5&...

ok, thank you iconnor!

p.s. for second issue, may i have to create an proxy for access zoneminder from outside my lan?

fujay, both servers (now, three, one experimental) share same DB and SMB event folders, so i don't need change configuration in both servers.
However, thank you!

in my servers (ubuntu and debian), usually i do this:
cd /usr/lib/cgi-bin
ln -s /usr/lib/zoneminder/cgi-bin/zms zms
ln -s /usr/lib/zoneminder/cgi-bin/zms nph-zms

This will link zoneminder cgi to apache cgi.
Remember to set correct permissions with chmod!

Hi all, i'm expanding my home multiserver configuration (both ubuntu with 1.30.4 zm version), but i'm getting strange errors. - when i change server on any monitor, both new and old server record for the same monitor (i have to restart zoneminder on old server to stop it recording) - when i try to c...

Update: after renaming zmfilter.pl on raspberry pi, event issues ceased.
Can it be an ntp updating related issue?

#1 this is all logs i have, affected monitor are 1, 5, 2 and 8 human readable datetime, component, server name, message '2017-08-08 23:57:13.611318','zma_m4','nuc','Retro: 269000 - Analysing at 15.15 fps' '2017-08-08 23:57:20.981940','zmfilter',NULL,'Deleting event 921398 from Monitor 4' '2017-08-08...

Hello all, i've configured an multiserver setup: both: ubuntu, zoneminder 1.30.4 1) my nuc, plenty of ram, which shares via smb zoneminder folder and let other zm servers to connect on its database. 2) an raspberry pi 3, which try to capture an 15fps 1280x720 h264 stream. My problems are: 1) at midn...

update: despite 4TB hdd smart status, i'm using it without issues. apparentely, disabling APM as told here, https://askubuntu.com/questions/134279/how-can-i-turn-off-hard-disk-power-management-in-12-04 is working. i did a light offload from 1TB drive saving one camera events in an expendable old ssd.

overkill? Maybe, but it will kill all unwanted traffic in lan (my situation is external lan cables across the house on external wire pipe, this will increase security a bit). Now, i'm using an budget cisco SG300 (used), i configured private vlans, so camera network can communicate only with my littl...