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folder sdb1/zoneminder/events Should probably be / sdb1/zoneminder/events Should the be 'sdb1/zoneminder/events' or 'var/cache/zoneminder/events'? Again, note the example says / full path to ... and not full/path/to ... Those leading slashes are important, otherwise ZM will be looking for a directo...

I'm trying to build a background filter that catches small events overnight such as camera IR and lighting changes that get around my preclusive filters, but I can't work out how to find events within a time period of (for example) 9PM and 5AM, across all days. Setting a Start Time >= 21:00:00 and ...

Depends ... if you set up zoneminder with the camera as "192.168.X.Y" -- an IP address, and it gets issued a new address (for any reason, DHCP whim, power cut etc.) then Zoneminder will lose the camera, because it's not longer there. Three solutions: 1) Static IP (tell the camera to use st...

I have one 5mp camera that would not start ZM 1.36.29. The camera resolution was set to 1944x2592 which is 5mp sideways. Changing the ZM camera resolution to 2592x1944 and changing the camera configuration to be flipped 180 degrees and mirrored fixed the problem. This is an Amcrest IP5M-T1179E. I d...

Things get worse after my first post. I replace my memory from 12GB to 16GB and run for a whole night. The memory usage from 7GB (start service) and now is 12GB used + some 3G buffering/caching and only leave 700MB free . Definitely something wrong with new version of serious memory leaks. Any good...

randoom wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:06 pm Unfortunately it's impossible, my camera does not support such feature.
Any tips are welcome.

Then you need to rotate the camera. Physically!

Post the result of ls -lah /etc/zoneminder/zm.conf Because 0640 is the permissions, but says nothing about ownership. On my setup this file is owned by apache.apache, as it's required for the webserver to read it, not zoneminder. -rw------- 1 apache apache 1.4K Feb 9 2013 /usr/local/etc/zm.conf Post...

ZM does not have the required code for this type of action. Then only the last videoclip that is still recording would potentially be missing from harddrive when removed while running, theoretically. They would also be encrypted, impossible to delete? I use LUKS and LVM under Linux. It would not oc...

Update :- I'm using ZM 1.ancient -- and I set up :- Source Type "Remote" Protocol "HTTP/Simple" And it just worked. Now, at some point no doubt "Remote" is deprecated and using FFMPEG etc. is the way to go. However -- I just looked at my old scripts for capturing from t...

--123456789000ccc000000987654321^M Content-Type: image/jpeg^M JFIF Looks like a MIME attachment of a JPEG (JFIF is the first 4 characters of a JPEG image). Reminiscent of the data served up by "/video.cgi" on my DCS900 D-link Cameras, which claims to be MJPEG -- it's a really odd way of e...

The only thing I would like to have that I can’t seem to do with the hikvision app is to set a time server, there is only a preset list of time servers available. You may be able to fake the camera out, if it has a list of hostnames/domains (not baked in IP addresses), you could spoof this in your ...

I'm not sure why you're getting two devices per camera. That's not something I've seen before (and can only assume is either a bug, or a feature to allow two different uses of the same hardware at once). Like some IP cameras have a high-res URL, a low-res URL, a "just a JPG" URL ... all wo...

As above. So, using "ls -l /dev/video*" :- With NO USB cameras connected, just the builtin webcam, how many /dev/video* devices do you have? Plug in one USB camera only. Wait a few seconds. How many now? Plug in second camera, wait, how many now? I'd expect to see the builtin as sole /dev/...

Magic919 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:34 pm It's the stuff from the text box on the web UI.

Ah, clearly lines beginning with # are being treated as meaningful

Jan 27 14:57:18 cctv zmc_m4[6390]: WAR [zmc_m4] [Encoder Option # Lines beginning with # are a comment #015#012# For changing quality, use the crf option#015#012# 1 is best, 51 is worst quality#015#012crf not recognized by ffmpeg codec] Why the lines had #015 and #012 in them, I don't know. I do. 0...