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I think I'll stop at this point. Seems like I can record pretty easily with VLC and I'll just dedicate that hard drive to it instead. Hopefully 1 terabyte will give me a decent amount of recording time and I won't need the motion recording after all. A shame, but I guess it's just not going to work ...

I should add, I'm using Firefox 70.0.1. In Chrome it appears to be working fine. So perhaps this is a browser weirdness? I didn't notice it until a few days ago, so perhaps it updated at that point. Is there some setting I can tweak? Some memory limit that needs to be expanded? Something like that?

I have noticed that after a few clicks, Zoneminder stops working. It's not freezing, but for some reason it fails to follow any of the links I click. For instance, if I hover over "Options" I can see the URL in the lower left. But when I click, instead of the URL changing, it remains the s...

Well I am stumped. I have mounted a new hard drive. Reformatted it as ext4. I have chowned it www-data:www-data (any chance since I'm on Lubuntu this isn't correct???!!). I have made perms 777. I have selected the storage in both the global and the camera as per the (excellent!) wiki. And it's still...

This may be the problem. Despite sudo-ing a chown -R www-data:www-data for that folder, it remains "myuser:myuser" So at the very least, that's part of the problem. And df -T shows the filesystem type as "fuseblk" (but I believe it's NOT an ext2, 3, or 4). NTFS or ExFAT? Is there...

Thank you! Relevant parts of df -h are: /dev/sdf1 931G 453G 479G 49% /media/my/extusbdrive Relevant parts of lsblh are: sdf 8:80 0 930.9G 0 disk └─sdf1 8:81 0 930.9G 0 part /media/my/extusbdrive (for security/privacy I've changed the actual path above, but they're identical in structure to what I'm ...

I don't know what the heck is going wrong. But is it because it's an external hard drive? I've chowned it to www-data:www-data, the chmod is 777. The path exists if I go to an xterm and fill it in.../media/me/myusbhardrive/zoneminder/events/ I've added it in the Global settings and then also selecte...

Thank you, @snake for the additional suggestions. I will try these things. In the meantime I tested by deleting (from the console>options>storage the directory and redoing (I had already deleted the default) the dir...and it started recording again. So perhaps it's just a simple issue of permissions...

Hmmm, so I thought I had done this all correctly but clearly not, as now Zoneminder claims to be recording events but when I try to view them, it says they're unavailable. 1. I've made a conf file pointing to a new directory (/my/external/drive/zoneminder/events <--- trailing slash needed?). 2. I've...

So...I am running 1.32.3 and have 5 zones set up on my camera (a Foscam G2) and monitoring works great, but I'd like to record triggered motion events if I can for security. I've successfully added 5 zones and am trying to test it out but have found that the camera simply gung ho records everything ...

Yes, you're right. I thought I had, but I guess I was more specific in the other post, even there I don't think I had the actual link. My apologies. Moving forward, what steps could I take to get this solar camera up and running with ZM somehow? I am considering opening up the camera and seeing if t...

Okay, that's what I thought. This isn't the product I have. It's sold on Amazon by Eversecu and they call it a SolarCam but I have repeatedly asked them for tech specs, what the OEM maker is, etc. It uses a "ToSee" app on the App store if that's helpful. But no, this isn't the product. The...

@countyline, thank you for the info on the SolarCam -- is there any chance you can explain to me the sleuthing you did? How would I (for this or maybe for a future camera!) be able to determine this info up front? Thank you!

I want to thank everyone for their help. The Foscam G2 is up and running fine on ZoneMinder and to boot, I have a nice live feed in VLC!!! The bizarre thing is that after an hour of tech support, in which Foscam used TeamViewer to come on my Windows machine and attempted to login, then had me reset ...

Thank you, @snake, for the additional help. In the other post it was a different camera and I didn't have a model number, but if you mean I am still asking how to connect to ZM then yes, they are similar. :-) But this WAS my attempt to get a more common camera. In this one, it's the Foscam G2, and t...