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I got approval to switch some of our cameras to black and white, but am having trouble getting it to work. I've got the cameras changed to display black and white, but when I try to modify zoneminder to change the camera's colour to 8 bit greyscale it looses the camera. If I leave it at 24 bit colou...

Thanks for the replies. I'm going to try to spread the load across multiple servers since we found a few spares we can use. On a limited budget we use what we can find lol. I've brought up going B/W, but they aren't sure that will give a good enough picture for our needs. Our original plan was to us...

I was just told we probably wasn't going to get to purchase new hardware so we have to find a way to make it work with what we have. I've got a hand full of the above servers, if I spread the cameras out across them does anyone have a guestimation on how many we could run per server without overload...

Thanks for the reply. I'm trying to see if I can come up with a quad processor box. We originally had mySQL on the same box, but it seemed to always be eating up a large chunk of processor so I moved it off. It seemed to help at the time, but we have since also cleaned up the events in the database ...

I am looking to spec a new server for our zoneminder installation and was hoping someone on the forum might be able to help. Here is our current configuration we setup as a proof on concept..: Dual Xeon 3.2GHz 6GB RAM 104 Axis Cameras - 4-5 fps - 320x240 - color The mySQL server is on a separate ser...