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by mikb
Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:45 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Zoneminder Video not smooth
Replies: 2
Views: 2628

Re: Zoneminder Video not smooth

Remove (blank out) the Maximum FPS on the monitor. Treat it like the IP-CAMERA you've now converted it into by making it a HTTP stream.

IP Cameras do NOT use the max FPS field. If you were accessing /dev/video directly, you'd need it.
by mikb
Tue Oct 07, 2014 7:51 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.26.x
Topic: Undersized PC?
Replies: 4
Views: 3664

Re: Undersized PC?

I installed zoneminder 1.26.5 on a Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1007U @ 1.50GHz with 4GB RAM. I connected 3 Ubiquiti Networks AirCam cameras: - 640 x 368 @ 3 fps (2) - 320 x 176 @ 3 fps. Do you think the PC is actually undersized? IMO: No. I'm running on a Intel Core 2, 1.8GHz, 3GB RAM, with 6 x IP Came...
by mikb
Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:00 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.26.x
Topic: can ZM work from a saved file, not a stream?
Replies: 2
Views: 2758

Re: can ZM work from a saved file, not a stream?

Zoneminder can use File as a source, but from what I understand the file must be a JPEG and not a video. Untrue, at least in 1.25 -- I used a many-minute example video from my cameras as input to fine-tune the motion detection, running the same video through over and over until it was reliably dete...
by mikb
Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:36 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.27.x
Topic: help with filters
Replies: 2
Views: 2750

Re: help with filters

I like your thinking, but I'm pretty sure that the "Date" and "Time" is OF THE EVENT we are considering, and not the current time and date of the filter running.

You need another strategy ... someone pitch in here ... ?
by mikb
Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:26 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Purge When Full not Working
Replies: 4
Views: 3636

Re: Purge When Full not Working

Purge When Full not working. I have it set to 95% and the disk fills to 100%. I see events being purged in the log files but it never deletes the files on the hard drive. Is ZMAUDIT working and running, I think that the "Purge When Full" only removes the database entry, it's up to ZMAUDIT...
by mikb
Tue Jul 22, 2014 6:57 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.27.x
Topic: Redirect Events and Images to NAS
Replies: 4
Views: 12054

Re: Redirect Events and Images to NAS

- Mounting network shares via fstab works as long as the network share is available. On that thought, what happens when zmaudit discovers a database full of event entries, but the network share didn't mount/fell off? Won't it start going through the database saying "this event no longer exists...
by mikb
Tue Jul 01, 2014 7:12 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Slow Motion event viewing
Replies: 4
Views: 3712

Re: Slow Motion event viewing

See :- http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Foscam Scroll down to the "&rate=D" bit, try appending that to your URL to control the frame rate. Does that help? Things aren't adding up because you are telling ZoneMinder to access the camera at 2 different frame rates, yet the camera ...
by mikb
Mon Jun 30, 2014 6:26 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.27.x
Topic: ZoneMinder 1.27 remote camera orange, but no picture?
Replies: 18
Views: 7103

Re: ZoneMinder 1.27 remote camera orange, but no picture?

eiger3970 wrote:Thanks.
I entered the URL in the Firefox address bar and a site loads for Hector Lopez-Berges?
not http://cameraip LITERALLY :)

Insert the IP address of your camera there!

(Go on, try clicking on the example "cameraip" link posted, Hector Wossname blog comes up ...)
by mikb
Sat Jun 28, 2014 9:02 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Slow Motion event viewing
Replies: 4
Views: 3712

Re: Slow Motion event viewing

I think the answer is -- you don't! For an IP camera you set the frame rate at the camera end, and leave the boxes BLANK on ZoneMinder. Otherwise it gets confused. Your camera will be still sending 15fps approx -- there's no way for ZM to tell it to change rate. You've told Zoneminder that it's actu...
by mikb
Wed Jun 25, 2014 6:51 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.27.x
Topic: Help with email filter
Replies: 1
Views: 909

Re: Help with email filter

I don't like the logic of that time bit. There are no times greater than 17:30, that are ALSO less than 7:30 ... think about it. Those limits make sense to you as a human, but not to a machine :) Do you mean "AND ( NOT (TIME greater than 7:30 AND TIME less than 17:30) )" i.e. (and not duri...
by mikb
Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:38 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.27.x
Topic: zma @ 100% per zone
Replies: 5
Views: 2513

Re: [SOLVED] Re: zma @ 100% per zone

when I originally set up zoneminder, I selected 'morecord', thinking this would mean 'record only when there is motion' I guess you now know that 'record only when there is motion' is spelled m-o-d-e-c-t :) morecord (mocord?) is record always, motion or not, but split the motion-bits from the non-m...
by mikb
Wed Jun 18, 2014 6:24 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Adding identical webcams to zoneminder
Replies: 6
Views: 5396

Re: Adding identical webcams to zoneminder

As (not the right solution) as it may be, I have a cron entry of: * * * * * chmod 666 /dev/video* Which fixes it (even on reboot). (Maybe an @reboot would have been better, but this also works for connected hardware - albeit at an up to 60 second delay). You are quite right however, my solution is ...
by mikb
Tue Jun 17, 2014 6:50 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.27.x
Topic: have to restart zoneminder daily so it works...
Replies: 11
Views: 4747

Re: have to reboot zoneminder daily so it works...

Cache growing to fill all memory is normal, Linux takes your unused memory and borrows it. If you really needed it, you'd get it back :)
by mikb
Tue Jun 17, 2014 6:45 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Adding identical webcams to zoneminder
Replies: 6
Views: 5396

Re: Adding identical webcams to zoneminder

FIXED! For anyone who is interested: # chmod 666 /dev/video* For some reason the video device was being added with different permissions. This fixes it! (Also upgraded to v1.27) Now, just to see if that really did fix it, reboot and remove/reattach the devices. Still fixed? Or did you lose the perm...
by mikb
Wed Jun 11, 2014 6:38 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.27.x
Topic: view/export/create videos and/or events later on
Replies: 20
Views: 7268

Re: view/export/create videos and/or events later on

hesral wrote:what kind of video files are you creating?

Lets say you make .mp4 files.
Or even more efficiently ...

Code: Select all

find /var/www/html/zm/events -type f -iname "*.mp4"
where :-

-type f - files only
-iname - case insensitive filename match