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On the filters page, when you pick the filter, the display refreshes (hopefully) with the details, and should show what the filter's current settings are. It should also have a little "*" at the enf of the filter name, and the word [background] after it. Just next to the selection box. Use...

AlexB wrote:

rounddice wrote:Your location may vary, but I'm running ubuntu server and for me it's stored under /var/cache/zoneminder/events

Thanks, but are archived events stored in a different location?

No -- it's a database flag, no data is actually moved to "archive" the event.

Did you "Save" after any changes you made, and did you tick/select "Run Filter In Background" which will keep it going? "Execute", "Submit" only run the filter once (Submit: shows you what WOULD happen/what WOULD match, for fine tuning and experimenting, vs Ex...

Hi guys, So say i have a server set up in my house and i want to monitor the camera at my friends's house, they have a static ip and has setup port forwarding on the their router for, say port 99, would i be able to add that as a cam in my zm? Okay so i have now found the "remote zm" pres...

I've no idea if the delete and video creation will work in the way you say, in that delete will blow away the newly made video (or delete the JPGS and then fail to make a video!) What I do know is this: If you force the videos to be created OUTSIDE the usual ZM event directories, it doesn't get dele...

"zms" is not in your $PATH, it's not in the path on my system either. Try looking in /var/www/cgi-bin/zms root@perkin:~# which zms which: no zms in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/kde4/libexec:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/usr/share/te...

My cams are hooked to my DVR and work good on my TV and of course windows handle my cams online. Oh! I was *not* expecting that, hence the general confusion here -- usually analogue cameras only connect to the PC running ZoneMinder directly! :) Well that's another configuration to be aware of! If t...

That's your graphics card: (Output!) What you need is an analog capture card (Input!) You can get dedicated PCI/PCI express cards with 4-16 inputs better suited for CCTV. Or use an older analog TV card (like Hauppauge Win-TV cards). If your Linux install supports them, USB capture dongles (like used...

It's not LAMP *and* the others, LAMP *is* the others :) It stands for Linux Apache MySQL Perl It looks like you've got a bit of reading ahead of you, but it will all be worthwhile. You may well already have Apache and Perl installed, if you have linux. You may need to configure and switch Apache on ...

In which case you've got me stumped! If there is only one file system, with everything in it (All of your OS, files, and zoneminder's events) and it's only 8% full, then you have one (1) HUGE file system :) Simple, but not optimal setup. Or you have more than one file system, with an (unspecified) %...

OK that looks good, but maybe you are not on the same page as ZoneMinder regarding "used" and "free" If you are trying to tell ZoneMinder to only use up to 8% of the disk -- then that would seem sensible for testing. But ... big but ... only if Zoneminder events are the ONLY THIN...

Is there any way to get around this? Yes. Set the filter up correctly next time! :) Sometimes it's better to submit the filter and see what it does before allowing it to execute . That way you find out what it's about to do before it does nothing/too much. Do you still have the filter settings you ...

If you can't access the cameras directly (their OWN web pages) then it sounds like they've crashed. This could be bad firmware, causing a memory leak, brought on by you using them continuously. 1) Update firmware in cameras to latest, if the manufacturer has fixed the problem ... 2) If there's an au...

I fear you may be looking in the wrong place -- I'd be happy for someone to shoot this down though :) If you are using the "filters" tab, that is for filtering Events -- that's where I see "Notes" and "Cause" fields. You're not looking for events, but for log entries --...

If you really want to test it with a VIDEO file (for testing motion detection on a pre-recorded, predictable file), as it appears you might be doing, try this :- I got an "mjpeg" stream from my camera into a file, and although it wasn't viewable in XINE/VLC, I used ffmpeg -r 5 -i input.mjp...