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Set a max alarmed area so it doesn't alarm if the whole area is changing.

Next time it happens run the following on the ZM server: netstat -tan and look for a line like this: tcp 0 0 192.168.31.5:56268 192.168.31.57:554 ESTABLISHED Where one of the IP addresses is the server and the other is the camera. If it exists then that tells you that there is a connection between t...

Firewalls can cause this, but there has to be no data passing between the camera and the server for a period of time. If your camera are connected vi WiFi then this could happen if they lose the WiFi connection. What you could do is shorten the "keepalive" period. That way the server will ...

What frame rate and resolution is the camera? Have you tried decreasing the frame rate and/or the image resolution?

This means that you are capturing frames faster than you can analyse them. How often is often? If its every few seconds then you need to slow down your capture (frame rate) or reduce the size of the area you analyse or reduce the image resolution or change alarm check method from Blobs to FilteredPi...

Does your password contain any characters such as "&$%*"? If so try changing it to simple password and see if you get the same errors.

it produces a url that when sent in my browser does move the camera in the proper direction. But does it produce a URL that when sent via the command line moves the camera? It might be that you have logged into the camera with the browser so when you send the command that way it authenticates. Try ...

I think it is because of the way zm works. It decodes the stream and save it as jpegs and then uses ffmpeg to string the jpegs together and produce a video. This will produce a lower quality stream where the motion doesn't look smooth because the time gap between each jpeg isn't uniform. It will als...

I just had another thought which also might help.... Linux has no problem mounting a drive or share to a folder with files already in it. When that happens, the files in the original folder are no longer accessible, but of course they are still taking up space on your root volume. To fix that, stop...

You probably have the "Control Device" wrong. Go to the following url: http://<your camera/ISAPI/System/deviceInfo You might have to enter the username and password. This should give you an XML file. Look for the model tag. Whatever is in there should go in the "Control Device" s...

ZM might be using UDP and VLC using TCP. The camera could be setting the TTL (time to live) with UDP to 1 which would mean UDP is only available on the same subnet.

You can grab the latest image with the following command: Run it every 90 seconds (or however often you want) and store the image on a web server so you can grab it whenever you want.

* I want to run the script on the path after an alarm is triggered * I am using -120 seconds because I'm too lazy to do it right (IE just looking for modified files instead of actually knowing what JPG's to check) * I wondered if I can some how turn on degbug logging or something so I can know the ...

I seem to recall having a similar issue quite a while back. Most alarms lasted a minute or 2 but occasionally one would go on forever. From what I can remember I solved it by either changing "Reference Image Blend %ge" from "no blending" to 12.5% and/or changing the "Alarm F...

Have some code for moveMap instead sub moveMap { my $self = shift; my $params = shift; # Info Dumper $params; # Info Dumper $self->{Monitor}; my $x = $self->getParam( $params, 'xcoord', $self->{Monitor}{Width}/2 ); my $y = $self->getParam( $params, 'ycoord', $self->{Monitor}{Height}/2 ); # Flip Y $y...