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I think the "remotely bounce a port" comment only really applies if you are powering the cameras directly from a proper Power-over-Ethernet capable hub/switch. Which you've indicated you're not ... Some PoE capable switches can be instructed to turn the power off and back on, on a per port basis ...

ZM does try and reconnect -- so the question is -- what do your Zoneminder logs say is happening after the "signal loss" has happened? Also, are these USB connected (web) cameras, Network connected (IP cameras), wired, wireless? ZM is very chatty about what it thinks is going on .... :) Then you ...

Slackware: "Our crontab format is roughly similar to that used by vixiecron. " :) So the "roughly similar" is probably where all this diverges. I don't have an /etc/crontab (although there are /etc/cron.d - empty, and /etc/cron.[hourly/daily/monthly/weekly] which just contain scripts to directly ...

On my Slackware systems, no crontab entries have a user field. Try "man crontab" on your system and read what it says about the fields -- I've just skimmed mine and see nothing about handing off to other users, the crontab file called "root" runs the rooty things, a crontab file called "myuser ...

Don't worry, I wasn't going to complete the report

I just thought it might help to know what the error message was, beyond a basic "It doesn't work!"

I tried to report you

Hitting "!" gives an immediate "404 not found" for "app.php/post/101874/report"

Please don't pull the plug on your rasp-pi, you may well permanently/semi-permanently trash the SD card, leading to all sorts of unreliability and ultimately, death

Try "Date/Time" "Less than" "21 days ago" (older than 21 days) ?

Mostly it provides power over ethernet, and it switches packets ...

Your question is unclear, but the answer is probably "yes".

FFMPEG_OPTIONS: I think it's only applicable to the final files when you "create video from event", so you won't see this until you start archiving out videos.
Maybe there [is/should be] a second FFMPEG options line for FFMPEG "on the way in", for this kind of usage case

Camera sounds "broken by design" ... if it's the type with 20-30 IR leds inside the same dome as the camera, surrounding the camera, that's a LOT of IR light heading out, and only a tiny fraction needs to bounce off the inside of the dome and get back into the camera for it to dazzle it. Same ...

This is indeed a networking issue, it sounds like the IP address changed, so ZM was looking at where the camera *was* ... I second the idea of keeping things static-IP wherever possible, to avoid surprises like this. Now, shifting the blame back to Zoneminder ;) How often does Zoneminder "look up ...

Your syntax looks ok I use "Date" "Less Than" "7 days ago" for purging when old. It means "older than 7 days", even though "less than 7 days" in *English* means everything within the last week :) It's a mathematical less-than, so a date which is smaller than "7 days ago", with date "0" being way in ...

- Remote Hostname: <the internal ip address of the machine with the webcam> - Remote Host Port: 8081 - Remote Host Path: http://<internal ip>:8081 Your settings feel redundant. Maybe that's why it doesn't work in ZoneMinder. Mine is, simply :- Remote Hostname: cam01 Remote Host Port:80 Remote Host ...