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Update: My plan was to write a c program to search every .php file on my server for a str match on "TH:i:s.u" but for some reason my c program's perror ( filename ); gives me this error msg ": No such file or directory" even though they file and directories are there and I can op...

Thanks for the info! I have done some basic code tweaking before and I kinda like PHP so this might be a fun task. I will keep you posted, may take me some time probably this weekend before I get a chance to do any real testing.

I was wondering what is controlling the log file time format seen here in my attached image of the /var/log/messages? I would like to change this to 12 hour time if possible.

Update: Due to all the false detection's I was getting no matter what settings, I decided to return my IP CMOS IR camera and go with an analog setup and a CCD camera and no IR's and now after my first trial run (last 24 hours) all my false alarms are 100% gone. All my motion detection now is accurat...

Maybe this will help:

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Based on my limited experience, with two types of cameras first one was an IP CMOS, and my latest using this now analog CCD type and capture card, and I got a lot of noise in the first one IP CMOS and got a ton of false alarms some had those red perimeter outlines. With my latest CCD camera, I trade...

Actually, I think doing the previous changes you mentioned worked since after I re-booted the server; Today it stay running with no issues and did a bunch of event recording so so far so good. But this was a test with only one camera so I do think I will build a new PC system that will handle 4 came...

I made the changes thank you for the tips; I also had to re-boot the camera, not sure why I did not think of this sooner. With those FPS text box's empty the Watch window now shows about 12.0 fps and the load is 0.48 - 0.62. Update: I started testing in Modect, and I must say I am very impressed wit...

Update: I got the camera now working <for camera details see the Amazon link in my earlier post> and initially I did struggle but I finally got it working using Ffmpeg. After I also was able to get it working using the Preset option for H.264 as a Foscam FI8620 type initially this would have been th...

Thank You. So I ended up with Debian 8 but with no GUI at all, and I was able to launch ZoneMinder from another PC using hostname@"my IP"/zm I ended up guessing at this path/connection string after a few failed try's :P I need a book on Linux for dummies, but I am happy I got this far! Sti...

Had trouble launching it from the terminal. So I then figured it was not installed and I ran the command to install firefox and then I got an error that said gdk_backend problem maybe I missed installing a base package? This is my only issue so far.

bb, thanks for the info and I did exactly what you recommended, and the putty suggestion was great! One question so far, what should I use as a browser for this minimal setup?

AMD Sempron 3100+ 1.8 MHz cache 256 KB and 1.9GB of RAM HD is also only 100GB I have a feeling I need a better PC right?? About RAM, I thought win 98 was limited but then now that I have Linux on maybe I can add more but I am not sure. What distro that is only command line would you recommend? Prese...

Cool, thanks for the info, I like the idea of direct cat5 hard wire too. I been wanting to learn more about networking also and going with IP cameras would help me learn so I guess its a win win situation.

Now the IP and camera hunt begins!

I was glad to see this post, and I bet there must be a calculator that someone has made to figure this out. I am working on one now based on the FAQ page found here http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html look for the section that says "Math for Memory: Making sure you have enough m...