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For some days now I keep getting the following errors on my syslog zmfilter_7[8494]: ERR [Failure to load Object record for 158303: Reason: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction] zmfilter_5[8470]: ERR [Src path /var/cache/zoneminder/events/20/2021-11-05/158298 does not exist.] I hav...

After facing same issues (ram usage rising - error on zmc process - monitor stop working restarting) I disabled in the 3 monitor with ram usage (over 1GB up to 4GB) storage - Save JPEGs -> disabled was on Analysis images only. Now running smoothly with 6GB of free RAM (used to be 1Gb and lower and w...

Basic reading: https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/userguide/index.html https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Dummies_Guide using search (google duckduckgo) with "site:forums.zoneminder.com" to limits results to this forum only None of the feature you ask for are natively supported but you c...

Running zm 1.36.3 under linuxMint 19.3 16 cameras mixed resolution from 640x480 - 2k) Having same issues as above. Have set the buffer high enough that I don't get errors but then ram usage rises to the point it starts using swap. My workaround was a script to monitor ram and swap usage and over a l...

from https://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=Wansview
the link seems to be rtsp://IPadress/live/ch0 & rtsp://IPadress/live/ch1

try doing a test with vlc 1st

Also you cannot change the FPS of the camera from the web interface of the IPCam App but u can directly from the phone inside the settings of the app.

After you get it working on VLC look into the tools menu -> codec (Ctrl+J)
to get the exact resolution especially Android IP webcam have some "interesting" resolutions.
u can change that from the android app (video options)

Recently I added a a USB cam to monitor the room of the ZM server. On the same machine I run a VirtualBox VM which I restart twice a day. I noticed that every few day one of the restarts of the VM fails. Sometimes the manual restart is successful but some also fail with VM freezing. I noticed that w...

Ok Thanks for the info will look into it

Does running netdata interfere with zoneminder mysql apache2?

What version to install repository (UBUNTU 18.04=1.9 - 20.04=1.19 or install by script?

Does it tax the CPU?

Use low bandwidth option in zmninja settings.

Every monitor will update every 10 secs or something.
i think there is an option to change that.

mikb wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 3:53 pm

iconnor wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:44 pm rm -rf /

Somewhat brutal -- some day that joke will backfire when someone tries it ...

at least he didnt add sudo infront of it

Couldnt find a filter for that so I wrote the script.

Was planing on auto setting monitor to none but http call dont work and hadnt had time to look into the API calls

personaly I wrote a script to do ping test and awk the syslog for error and run it every 20 mins. If a ping fails or an error if found in the syslog an email is sent eg. #!/bin/bash #set IP address monitor1=192.168.1.100 #ping test monitor1_chck=$(ping -c 1 $monitor1 | grep bytes | wc -l) #write tex...

You could try to reduse the "Max Alarmed Area" & "Max Filtered Area "pixels to about half the area (or whatever is reasonable to ur case) another tweak is to increase the "Min Pixel Threshold" Any changes need to be retested during the day. Min/Max Pixel Threshold (...