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It may take ZM audit a while to catchup if you deleted a LOT of items on disk and have it configured to only do X amount of work per run. Leave it another day and look again, see if the event count has come down over time.

This sounds nuclear. What is making it so large? Nuclear is "delete the database entirely" :) Dumping out the db and remaking it would re-pack all the wanted data sensibly, and free up any trapped bloat in there from millions of insert/remove operations the db has gone through. When my da...

Are you recording a direct camera pass-through of the video stream, or is Zoneminder processing into JPEGs to store it? If pass-through: What happens if you find the raw file in your events directory (you will need to search for it) and play that in VLC or similar player? I am using Direct Pass-Thr...

Having looked at the video, it does look a bit like video stream corruption -- the way H264/265 and similar files are compressed does a lot of reference to forward/backward-in-time key-frames, and when the data gets messed up, that's the kind of breakup you get. Are you recording a direct camera pas...

somebody mentions that the zoneminder can start deleting things if the NAS is down and the recording PC is not. Is this still going to cause issues? In my opinion, yes, you will have issues. The basic problem is that ZM tries to keep its internal database of events in sync with the files stored on ...

Magic919 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:14 am Looks like stuff missing. Check your web logs for clues.

Ah, yes, the that's the look of "cascading style sheets having gone missing"!

Illegal division by zero at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Event.pm line 304. here the 304 line of the file my $frame_rate = sprintf('%.2f', $self->{Frames}/$self->{FullLength}); my understanding is that $self is 0 so the division is not valid? I suspect $self isn't zero, but the member {FullLength} i...

Having recently tried to set up outgoing (to internet) email on an Ubuntu 22.x laptop (and had it rejected by my ISP ...) I know the feeling. You're right, there is no true sendmail -- it is a compatibility layer for postfix, the REAL MTA installed. So :- echo "Postfix send only server" | ...

My cameras are set to reboot once a week during the DB backup when ZM is less responsive. Before I did that they would do odd things after a few weeks and months. I have never tried for short events. Same here, an HTTP request sent for a reboot once per week to keep them sane. However, as the poste...

Good day, I just installed a 5MP camera in Zoneminder for testing. I noticed that the font size of the timestamp in the "extra large" setting is just enough for me. It could very well be a little bigger. High-resolution cameras will certainly become more and more widespread in the future....

Suggestion: If you can't do it by substrings in the way you want (I've never tried that!), try setting a multiple part rule for Monitor name matches (a substream from the list) OR Monitor name matches (another substream from the list) OR ... keep going ... then finally AND any other requirements. Ot...

I guess for your setup it says card found when you look at the output from "sudo dmesg | grep bttv" ? I did do that before posting. Then realised ... 18:23:33 up 139 days, ..... dmesg is rather overflowed and gone by this point. There would be messages in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messa...

but in addition to the DNS server I assigned, it also added 8.8.8.8 to its list of DNS servers. Yeah, I've seen that sort of thing. One of my cheap NAS devices ignores the NTP time server I set up. It has a box to put your own CHOICE of IP address in there. So I set my own firewall (which also has ...

I have a Hauppauge WinTVPCI which shows up as 03:03.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12) So it looks like your 03:00.1 entry might be the capture card? Does "lspci -v" add any detail? Once the kernel finds the card you should get a /dev/video or...

I know that for many, my solution is not feasible, but I run numerous VLANs at my home. I have my primary LAN, that I run all of my computers and file sharing on. I also have a VLAN for guests, a VLAN for IoT devices, a VLAN for several web servers, and a VLAN for cameras. With the exception of the...