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Update! I tested the script running as the www-data user (whom owns all the ZM info on my server,) and it appears to work fine. I am not sure if this is technically a bug, but in my opinion running zmpkg as root should either work or deny, not result in some unknown state. Regardless, it may be good ...

I am trying to get my set up to alternate the camera mode between mocord and modect, so that for 8 hours at night it records everything and during the day it cuts down to just recording events. I saved a 'daytime' and a 'nighttime' profile and set the jobs up in cron to do the switch per the ZM ...

Well just in case anyone is following this topic, the issues I was having seem to have been cleared up by a manual wipe of all zoneminder material from my machine, and a source install. The debian package seems very unreliable in its install/remove procedure, the only good thing about it is that it ...

I am having no luck at all getting this to work right. The highest sensitivity setting with a full screen zone shows no motion detected, unless there is an event where the camera gets unplugged. However, in MODECT it will still record nonstop. I gave up on motion detection and set it to record only ...

You likely need to tune your zone(s) for your cams field of view. http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Documentation#Defining_Zones There is not one magic setting that works for all as a setting for a cam thats inside a 20x20 room with a 4mm lens is going to be different than a cam in a 30x40 ...

Sorry to bother everyone, hopefully this is something easy I am just missing. I set up zoneminder twice now, first using the debian repo to do it automatically, and then later using the source to compile it from scratch. I can get it up and running and recording and playing back just fine. However ...