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Hi all, I have this urge to try ZM's motion detection algorithms again. I am currently using Foscam's own motion detection triggers (via zmtrigger.pl) and its working reasonably well. However, I want to give ZM's own algorithms a good try and I am looking for help to get started. Every time I switch...

Quick update: Upgraded to 4GB (from 2GB)
Works great at full res.

Thank you, Simon. Unfortunately, checking monitor states won't work as my "out" and "vacation" states are exactly the same - they both put all my cameras on nodect. The difference is when in vacation mode, I don't want cron switching back to disable at specific times. I've gone ahead and changed bot...

Is there a way for me to find out the current running state of zone minder? Not just 'running' or 'stopped' but assuming I've created 2-3 run states, find out that state (let's say I have 3 states: in, out, vacation), I'd like to know which state ZM is in (while running) Use-case: I have a cron that...

When viewing live feed on ZM, it seems when it detects motion, an alarm is generated that causes the live view image to get zoomed into the point of alert. How do I disable this?

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*bingo*. knnniggett you rock. As it turns out ZM is using tmpfs and I was at 98% space for tmpfs (set at 50%). I've changed it to 70% and tested recording at 1280x960 and they all work, and tmpfs is at 85%. I'd be happy to add more RAM, but I wanted to figure out where I was going wrong --> and you ...

Okay, I was running out of shared memory allocations. I've tuned the system and things are back to normal. I'm a little confused with what I missed in the math. What I did was this: 1.2 * ((1280*960*50*24*4/8/1024/1024 ) + (640 *480 * 24*50/8 /1024/1024)) 4 cameras @ 1280* 960 @ 24bit color, Image b...

Okay, this is most certainly a memory issue, but I'm not sure how to fix it. I think I've allocated sufficient memory. This is my current setting for my 2GB RAM machine: ZM has a script that runs that recommends ideal size (90% of av. mem) - I copied that part and ran it to make sure and set my sysc...

Some more debugging information - zmc is coredumping When I ran it from command line with the new 1280x960 camera set to this mode: root@camerapc:/home/user# zmc -m 7 Bus error (core dumped) weblog: DATE/TIME COMPONENT PID LEVEL MESSAGE FILE LINE 2015-03-07 07:36:32.053920 zmdc 17374 INF 'zmc -m 7' ...

Hi folks, I've been using ZM 1.28.1 with Ubuntu 14.04 pretty well with two Foscam I9831Ws (1280x960). Let's call them A&B I setup 2 more of the exact same cameras (lets call them C&D) . The problem I am facing is when I am adding the new monitors, and specify the capture details as 1280x960 with col...

Sure. I add this to start(). mymedia is where I mount the primary directory. It can be improved - for example, if it never loads, or is down, ZM won't start etc. It also doesn't take into account what happens if my NAS fails while ZM is active. I haven't gotten around to covering all scenarios. Fran...

Hi, I recently integrated ZM with my camera's own HW motion detection (see thread here: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=22996) I have some questions on how ZM is behaving. I read the modes here: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Documentation#Monitor_Tab I don't want...

Speaking of performance, everyone should spend some time tweaking the performance of their mysql server. It is guaranteed to noticeably decrease the response time of the web ui. The two most important things you can do is to enable the query cache (it is off by default) and set up an innodb buffer ...

I've been benchmarking ZM's software motion detection with the built in Foscam Motion detection in the camera. In general, I've found Foscam's own detection to be much more reliable. This code makes ZM use Foscam HD inbuilt HW motion detection instead of Zoneminder's SW motion detection. This result...

Problem solved. I noticed the script has a cache timeout, so I did a reload one time when the monitor is not found to make sure. Works great.