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It's probably here. Please don't forget my question above.

Instead of a striped raid i'd better go for separate drives and spread the i/o streams accordingly.

I couldnt figure out how to make it work. Go to 'Defining Monitors' and set all three fps fields to '0.1' (i guess 10secs is a better start for testing) and don't use pass-through mode. https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userguide/definemonitor.html#monitor-tab Then use 'record' mode to re...

I have defined different colors to my zones (Alarm Colour (Red/Green/Blue)) but they neither change their border color/pattern nor do they get highlighted in that color in the video player seek bar (that's the actual reason i want a different color). The color is always red. Is it intended for somet...

What's wrong with iconnor's advice? Seems much easier (if it works).
I personally use an external bash script with snapshot url (independent from ZM).

interdif wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 1:23 pm since rm -rf isnt the fastest method in linux for deleting a lot of files

Which method do you think is faster?

Please post this outputs:

ps ax --format uname,group,pid,ppid,tty,cmd > /tmp/ps.txt

systemctl status zoneminder.service > /tmp/zoneminder_service.txt

The quintessence is to use a separate drive/partition. How you actually do it is up to you. 'systemd' is just an optional recommendation. It's very flexible and powerful and maybe not the best recommendation for beginners indeed.

I've flushed all events in the meantime, created some forced alarms and all timeline page hits are working. I cannot reproduce the bug atm. There is still a chance that it occurs only at a much more crowded event list. I will keep the list growing. Ccurrent (working) url: http://192.168.2.1/zm/?view...

I would start by looking up /etc/init.d/zoneminder to see where these lines are generated and why the PID owners do not match. Mar 07 15:37:07 snarfbuntu systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: New main PID 6664 does not belong to service, and PID file is not owned by root. Refusing. Mar 07 15:37:07 snarfbu...

'Show Timeline' works partially here. Sometimes it just gives a white screen with this logs: 03/07/20 23:06:09.127295 web_php[17104].ERR [192.168.1.9] [SQL-ERR 'SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your Ma...

I've done that already (with 100 frames). I will try some extreme values next.

Yes, but did you ever get below 7 seconds or did you ever have had a 1 second clip?
I'm not sure if the buffers settings are involved here as well but if you lower MinSectionlength you clearly get shorter clips.

Solution: I have defined Misc/Default Scale to 1/2x so when i initially open the liveview the picture is 50% downscaled and Zoneminder does a good job here by reducing the image quality correspondingly. When i manually switch to 100% the downscaled picture gets upscaled as its still the same stream....

This is the solution for the 8 seconds bug. Just lower it.
Defining Monitors/Misc Tab/MinSectionlength

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