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yea, probably my card only has one chip and it shows up as /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 with each haveing two channels 0 and 1 so it looks like this in zoneminder source column /dev/video0 (0) /dev/video0 (1) /dev/video1 (0) /dev/video1 (1) if you know what /dev/videoX your usb cam is on you can add ...

I don't think it would help much but maybe some more memory?

Also, I would try and disable the red cameras and the Monitor cameras to see if that helps reduce the load.

and I would take a look at iotop to see if the io is over taxed.

8 as in eight ? I didn't know the OS would even work over 4 have you tried to see what's sucking up all the resources with top ? It sounds like the the memory is all used up and it's swapping, that makes mine crawl to a stop. regular at times things should be identifiable in crontab or your zm ...

dunno,
did you try with only one camera installed in zoneminder ?

how much memory did you allow for the vm?

where did you get the, I'm guessing, vdi ?

1280x1024 and inexpensive ? I guess it will all depend on what you think expensive is? For me $30 is an expensive camera so I get those cheapo Harbor Freight cameras when they are on sale and I have a 20% off coupon.

Did you have a hunt at store.bluecherry.net

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... e_easy_way

I have had great luck with these instructions and by far the easiest method of installing zoneminder that I have found
my box is only 32 bit but the guide still works very well

dunno,

running ubuntu ?

sudo service zoneminder status

but I don't think that will tell you if the cameras are working, guess you would also need to check mysql and apache to see if they are running as well

dunno,
maybe you could turn the user login off and use .htaccess

is it a server install or is zm running on a desktop install?
what's the load on the system?

my rig is only 4 cams and a 750GB drive with 2GB of memory and 3Ghz Celeron I had some trouble letting the drive fill up to 90% setting it to 75% seemed to help keep it up I have had issues with MySQL and a table corruption. There is a fix in here that worked once but another time I had to reinstall ...

maybe you could try and put a usb cam on the box and see if that will give you a stream? you can watch and see if the cam shows up when you plug it in with watch 'ls /dev -al | grep video' -n 5 -d use Ctl-c to quit you need to be careful with hardware selection and linux distros, there are really ...

sorry, I dunno

If you get it working could you post a How To in the Wiki?
I wanted to try putting up a Slackware box with zoneminder 1.25 but my mojos not strong enough.

Thank You,
Pa Jr.

Greetings ZM friends, I can't seem to figure out how to get ZM to ftp events with a filter. It worked when I tested it but the filter I used has a "date/time of now"

any pointers to how to use the filters, much appreciated

Pat Jr.

Thank You!
I'll give it a try later.

Pat Jr.

Yep, that worked great, Thank You.

pointer please
can I change the size of the thumbnails in the events view?

Thanks,
Pat Jr.

did you give the LiveCD a shot? I think it uses Arch. extra frame captures to "settle" the capture image? pretty much, I dunno but I have similar issues PV-149 but the one I have supposedly does 8 cameras. When I have 2 cameras on a channel the frame rates goes in half. I might dittel with the ...