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ZM does not show the feeds from the cameras but does record them. Is there anything in the javascript logs in the browser? Sometimes when I reinstall, I end up losing the proper jquery or js files. They are all versioned, so you can have version mismatches. Backup script used: START="$(date +&...

Remember that higher res also means more HDD storage. Eventually, the increased resolution will not be worth it. Where the trade off will be, we will probably find out in the future. Cameras will also probably become commodity. At that point, it's just a question of optimizing the software and hardw...

I wrote that wrong. When I said ZM was too slow for the old laptop, I meant that it was too many menus to traverse through. Of course I wouldn't try to run montage on a laptop like that. My bad. I think there was a post about making the default page the montage, and the path needed for the config on...

I run old hardware (late 2000's laptops), and I have also found the ZM web interface unusable (too slow) for live viewing. What works for me is https://wiki.zoneminder.com/External_Live_Stream#Imagemap_of_Cameras a map with buttons that updates what stream is viewable. I'm also a minimalist so a sim...

https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/11823/is-mysql-locking-table-during-backup-and-how-to-avoid https://stackoverflow.com/questions/104612/run-mysqldump-without-locking-tables According to the above, mysql 'does' lock the db. Try adding the lock-tables=false command, and see if that makes a diff...

One option is to only backup the monitor settings and not the events:
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/MySQL#Backup_config_only

Whenever I see clip lengths getting truncated it's because of lack of resources. You are trying to mocord 6 2.5K cameras on an i7? How many cores? And why an i7 as opposed to a server CPU? You need like 16 or 24 actual cores, a server motherboard and CPU. Alternatively you can just use record & ...

I looked at the github issues, as well as the readthedocs, but I didn't see anything on usage of the parenthesis in filters. I could probably figure it out, but would anyone give a quick rundown of how they are used? edit: Nevermind, I see the word being used is 'brackets'. Looks like it's been cove...

Hey there! From what I've tinkered with, it's actually doable. You can set up motion detection in ZM to trigger based on changes in the camera feed. So, if you point the camera towards your garage door, you might be able to create rules that detect whether it's open or closed based on the visual ch...

See https://wiki.zoneminder.com/API

Make sure nginx is configured properly with https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_11_B ... der_1.36.x which should be close enough for bookworm (although no guarantees)

Did you check this article: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/GPU_passthrough_in_VMWare It's about the only writeup regarding GPUs I can recall here. I've personally setup the RPI onboard GPUs, but never x86 nvidia ones. Honestly, CPU w/passthrough works pretty well. If you must use a GPU, just keep in mi...

Unable to open input rtsp://10.168.1.51:88/videoMain due to: Connection refused - bummer You need to add the password. rtsp://user:password@10.168.1.51:88/videoMain The plugin error, I wrote something up on wiki.zoneminder.com/Foscam. You have to use IE, but windows now 'blocks' you from using IE a...

Try the RTSP paths. They work better out of the box anyways. rtsp://user:password@ipaddress:88/videoSub and rtsp://user:password@ipaddress:88/videoMain Always test with ffmpeg or vlc. If you are getting a 404 error, I would login to the camera web interface and look around. You may need to try some ...

It's also easy to just use an HTML imagemap and an iframe to view cameras. I was able to do the following (links below) in a couple hours. I don't know if the map view in this thread has the option to view streams or not. Also I don't know if this view is only for a traditional street map, or if you...

I did a writeup on the wiki of using an HTML imagemap with an iframe to view cameras instead of the default ZM interface. I'm impressed with how easy, and also how much better it is when you have a lot of cameras. I'd highly recommend anyone consider setting this up. It's an intuitive way of viewing...