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Fresh install on bare metal Ubuntu 20.04 build. No real issues installing, it all went smoothly. ZM seems to be working alright, but I do keep seeing this error in the logs on occasion. My Forum and Google searches have led me nowhere. 2021-03-29 03:32:36 zmc_m1 85268 ERR Unable to free up older pac...

So I discovered a workaround.

I created a debian-sys-maint user on my remote database, with the password from my zoneminder system's /etc/mysql/debian.cnf.

This is still an issue, why would zoneminder be ignoring what's set in zm.conf?

nano /etc/zm/zm.conf ZM_DB_HOST=192.168.50.2 Make sure the ZM User has the right password and permissions on the remote database server. I set up this additional storage in the ZM gui and it appears in the database: https://i.imgur.com/lmeybVz.png ZM_DB_HOST=mysql # ZoneMinder database name ZM_DB_N...

I just installed zoneminder 1.35.16 on Ubuntu 20.04, without any issues, it seemed. Once installed, I migrated the newly created DB to a mysql VM where I keep most DB's. Zoneminder starts, I can add cameras, etc... but when I try to create a zone, nothing happens. The log states: Can't insert event:...

So, it seems zoneminder was pulling debian-sys-maint@localhost from the definer for the triggers under zones and events in the SQL database. I changed it to zmuser@localhost and now it's working fine. For whoever next has this issue, hopefully you don't have to grep a string on your whole hard driv...

I'm currently running Zoneminder in an ESXi environment, but finding issues with it taking up a lot of CPU with only a single 5Mp camera. I am 'disposing' of a 16 core Opteron 2.5Ghz system at work and plan to drop a second CPU into it for 32 cores total. It has 128Gb of memory and 6Gbps SAS disks. ...

I've been reading up on the zone types and need to clarify something I don't see in the Wiki. An inclusive zone will alert only if an active zone is also in an alert state and there is motion in the Inclusive zone. This part I understand. But what happens if there is motion still occurring in the In...