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What's odd is that reolink puts some effort into describing use of RTSP, connecting with VLC, ONVIF, ... That's great. But if there are no ports open on the device, and no clue how to wake up the device, then that's not helpful :( Probably their official app does some kind of initial handshake. You...

What are your current favorite ZM brands? I'm behind the times on these things. My cameras are D-Link, but old. They "support" browsers that understand the camera downloading some Active-X player thing (!) to see the live view. I ignore that totally and go to http://camera/video.cgi and a...

iamnotme wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:14 am I can only assume you’ve not read this topic from the start, or some kind of AI(lol).

The offending post, now deleted, was an AI (actual idiocy) reword of iconnor's posting at

viewtopic.php?p=132774#p132774

Sorry to tell you that we only support the Windows and Mac Client currently. So we do not know how to and can not connect the cameras to your Linux system. Typical support response. In effect, they don't know anything beyond their scripted answers to typical user failures. You said the word "L...

Nathanael wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:00 am where it is?

When you post/reply, scroll down past the text box, past save draft/preview/submit. Two tabs: Options and .. Attachments. Click over to attachments.

Changing the time in Ubuntu and then through the Zoneminder web interface worked perfectly. Thank you. Good to hear. Timezone changes are always a bit of a nuisance! UTC has the advantage of logs etc. always increasing in time, whereas a missing hour (spring) and a duplicate hour (autumn) can cause...

Current time settings: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: time system using UTC, currently 1 hour behind UK BST (DST) Zoneminder 1.36.33: time within Options > System > TIMEZONE set to 'Unset- use value in php.ini', and time within the log system display indicates UTC. My gut reaction is the two lines above are the...

You're right. We probably ought to have the "right" instructions pinned somewhere, so when the question comes up we can just tell them where to look. OR, maybe a new "New to Zoneminder? Install tips." or similar would be where to put it. That is the most practical answer ... my ...

Source path seems to only contain an IP address. That may be the problem. Question for anyone reading this ... does that "source path" need more flesh on the bones, something more like http://192.168.1.180/main.html?first=0 If you look at examples for source path for e.g. Hikivision camera...

However, if you use the recommended script, that's in there. One of the recurring problems seems to be that there are definitive, tested and we-know-these-work instructions. Then, there are other sites with out of date, incomplete instructions. And finally, there are AI systems chomping through all...

TruckerDave wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 3:09 pm So, simple it's probably a given to seasoned Linux users.

Seasoned Linux users avoid systemd ... so might well get caught on that when forced to use the thing.

(Slackware and proud!)

I always get the error "Failed to construct 'URL': Invalid URL" Post a screenshot of exactly what you have in the various boxes for the camera's setup. If you need to redact a password or something, try not to take out TOO much info ;) It's possible that ZM is trying to assemble the infor...

The command that failed is to restore the backup you took.

I suspect you probably didn't take a backup as directed earlier up the page, and got a "zmdb.sql: No such file or directory" complaint. Which is fair enough, if the db was not present, or trashed, no point making a backup

Camera used to be 192.168.1.180, however browser won't load page http://192.168.1.180 Intercom camera used to be 192.168.1.100, however browser won't load page http://192.168.1.100. So, I ran an intercom camera support link (entering the username, password and security token) to find the ip address...

I suspect the host -> browser -> http://localhost/ -> output: Apache2 Default Page, may be sourcing from another apache file, not related to the VM ZM Apache file? RewriteBase /zm/api 1) Yes using just "localhost" will get you a default Apache page. Probaby the default "It works!&quo...