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by Baylink
Mon Jul 15, 2019 3:27 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.32.x
Topic: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04
Replies: 16
Views: 9346

Re: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04

Ok. So I should be able to 1) Bring down 1.30 2) Remove the old PPA 3) $ sudo apt upgrade 4) Bring up 1.32.3 and let it do it's upgradingly stuff 5) Bring it back down again once it's done, and then 6) Unmount those 2 deep mounts and put the relevant paths in the configuration manually, at my leisur...
by Baylink
Mon Jul 15, 2019 2:27 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.32.x
Topic: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04
Replies: 16
Views: 9346

Re: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04

I mean the practice which results in this in my fstab: /zmdata/1/zoneminder/images /var/cache/zoneminder/images none defaults,bind 0 2 /zmdata/1/zoneminder/events /var/cache/zoneminder/events none defaults,bind 0 2 recommended for 1.30. I know there's a ZM term of art for that, but I can't remember ...
by Baylink
Sun Jul 14, 2019 10:46 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.32.x
Topic: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04
Replies: 16
Views: 9346

Re: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04

'Remove the old PPA first'. Great tip!

The upgrade script, will it automatically unwind the overlay mount thingamajig? Or am I going to have to do that manually before I start the new version?
by Baylink
Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:47 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.32.x
Topic: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04
Replies: 16
Views: 9346

Re: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04

Yup, confirmed: I'm a doofus. Isaac's PPA now shows up in Synaptic as an upgrade, and I'll run it tonight when I have some time free. Thanks again to Isaac for maintaining a PPA for the package. ${EXCUSE}, but I'll chip in some coin when I can. ( Just now, the variable is filled with "being evi...
by Baylink
Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:40 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.32.x
Topic: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04
Replies: 16
Views: 9346

Re: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04

<sound="screeching brakes">

Sorry; I apparently did not read *closely* enough the Easy Way, where it notes there's a new PPA for each release. I'll go add

$ add-apt-repository ppa:iconnor/zoneminder-1.32

and try again.
by Baylink
Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:38 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.32.x
Topic: Stuck in Privacy Page - Can't Access Console (New Install)
Replies: 5
Views: 19408

Re: Stuck in Privacy Page - Can't Access Console (New Install)

Indeed. I strongly recommend -- and I recommend this having been stupid enough to not do it -- that if it's your first ZM install, you install it on a documented/supported platform, even if you have to dredge up a spare box to do that on. Once you've installed it and it works, you'll have aslightly ...
by Baylink
Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:00 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.32.x
Topic: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04
Replies: 16
Views: 9346

Re: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04

I suppose I should have said that the 1.30.2 install's been running fine for almost 2 years, with 12 cams at 720p on an i7 with 8GB of RAM and 16GB of swap.
by Baylink
Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:54 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.32.x
Topic: Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04
Replies: 16
Views: 9346

Upgrading 1.30.2 to 1.32.3 on U18.04

I've read the install guide and the wiki Easy Way's and I still have a couple questions. My 1.30.2 install appears to be from APT on the Ubuntu LTS install; the box is checked in Synaptic anyways. But that also appears to be the most recent packaged version for U18. First: is that correct? If not, I...
by Baylink
Tue Dec 19, 2017 4:40 am
Forum: Non-ZoneMinder Chat
Topic: Firefox Extended Support Release
Replies: 1
Views: 3428

Re: Firefox Extended Support Release

I'm not sure what it depends on, but it depends. :-)

I upgraded to 57, and have -- so far -- been having no problems with anything, including ZM and montage -- where everything's faster, and the datestamps in the scroller are a readable size now (where before they were in Flyspeck 3).
by Baylink
Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:32 am
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: 3 * HikVision 4MP cameras taking too much CPU
Replies: 11
Views: 10407

Re: 3 * HikVision 4MP cameras taking too much CPU

Indeed. To expand: if your camera is sending a stream in MPEG, not MJPEG, then ZM has to pick that apart into frames, so that it can do things like motion detection -- and if the encoding is dense, then that takes a lot of CPU, or it takes an FFMPEG that knows how to talk to hardware that does the d...
by Baylink
Sat Oct 14, 2017 5:50 pm
Forum: User Contributions
Topic: HOWTO:Zoneminder recording if your 'iPhone' is out of home
Replies: 18
Views: 23834

Re: HOWTO:Zoneminder recording if your 'iPhone' is out of home

Turn your DHCP lease time down to 15 minutes, and then query the router by name? :-)

That'll require some scraping on the router, probably, unless it's high-end enough to do SNMP.
by Baylink
Wed Oct 11, 2017 4:26 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.30.x
Topic: Performance tuning time
Replies: 24
Views: 28171

Re: Performance tuning time

D'oh. Yep, was thinking nocord, obviously.
by Baylink
Mon Oct 09, 2017 7:03 pm
Forum: Hardware Compatibility List
Topic: Wansview IP Cams working nicely
Replies: 3
Views: 5954

Re: Wansview IP Cams working nicely

Thanks much for the positive report; we always like to hear those. A 5 minute load average below 1 *per CPU core* is widely considered best. My experience of current Linuces is that you can get away with 2 per core pretty decently; at 3 per core you should start to worry. I have a Dell SC1430 that's...
by Baylink
Mon Oct 09, 2017 6:57 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.30.x
Topic: Performance tuning time
Replies: 24
Views: 28171

Re: Performance tuning time

I think I'm also going to do the Maria swap-in.
by Baylink
Mon Oct 09, 2017 6:56 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.30.x
Topic: Performance tuning time
Replies: 24
Views: 28171

Re: Performance tuning time

Ok, well, sure, bbunge, but MySQL says it's good up over 2GB, IIRC, and I'm peaking it at 500-something MB. Or did I misread the report? I don't particularly mind the exercise, but the bigger the hill it is to climb, the more justification I like to assemble for doing it, and I don't know that I'm t...