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What's the best way to save video directly to the cloud?

Just an update. Now running 3 cameras, all connected through WiFi, including the raspberry. I upped the split memory to 800 (going above will crash the raspberry)

I got three dirt cheap cameras off AliExpress. Two 1080p indoor cameras that cost me €20 each (including shipping) and a third 1080p outdoor camera for €30 (including shipping) All three are setup on zm on a raspberry pi 4 4gb and now running fine (I had an issue getting all to work simultaneously b...

I have seen this problem on Raspberry pi as well. What worked for me was increasing the amount of memory allocated to the GPU, a setting that can be modified using the raspi-config command, advanced options, memory split. I allocated 256 meg on my Pi 4 and I can support three cameras with that at 6...

Bluemax wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 4:03 pm Maybe they have the same mac address?

Good point, but no, they have different mac address and get different IP from DHCP

Magic919 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 1:08 pm What's the lowest resolution and frame rate the cameras can produce? is it at the level the Pi should cope with?

I've tried setting both to 176x120 QCIF... but only one will work

Magic919 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:41 pm Can you configure both monitors to look at one camera and see how it behaves.

Do you mean clone the working camera? if so, no only one camera works at the time also if they are identical...

I could need some help with troubleshooting an issue configuring two cheap aliexpress cameras to work at the same time. They both work if only one is connected. If both are hooked up only one will show video and record events. I´ve tried reducing the resolution of the stream to all the differnent on...

Hello, Probably an easy fix for this but I'm new at this so...well... here we go I got to see the camera in ZM v1.32.x but couldn't get ZMninja to connect due to problems with the API so I did a fresh install of v1.33.x and *pooof* camera gone. Upgraded to 1.34 and same problem. Using an Raspi 4b 4G...