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Here is a good how to for motion detection: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Understanding_ZoneMinder%27s_Zoning_system_for_Dummies One thing I've found is that the settings can be too sensitive and you will get a lot of worthless detection's. Fog, snow and rain can fill up the storage. But with ...

How many cameras and what resolution? Are you using MODECT and not record? You may want to increase the size of the swapfile. RPIOS uses a 512M swapfile by default. To do this: sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile and change the "512" to 2048 or greater. Might be a good idea to ...

Install procedure for Ubuntu based systems: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Serv ... der_1.36.x

Install Procedure for Debian: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_12_B ... and_1.37.x

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You are using the desktop system to detect the USB drive. You would be better off to use fstab to mount the drive on boot. Google is your friend to mount the drive under RPIOS aka Debian 12. Use the mount drive part from this: https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/nas-box-raspberry-pi-tutorial/ Use ...

What version of RPI do you have? What memory? Looks like you are using the RPI with a desktop version of the OS. You would be better to use the version without desktop, Light version 64 bit. Install the OS on the 2 TB drive and not the SD. RPI 4 and 5 can boot from USB. WIll solve a lot of your ...

You can amend the post title with (solved) or something like that. I feel for you trying to configure the old ActiveX cams. I have not done any of those in a while. I suppose if needed one could install a copy of Windows 7 on an old PC to get Internet Explorer. Otherwise check the Zoneminder WIKI ...

Better instructions: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_12_B ... and_1.37.x

You do not need to change the port. ZM uses http://ip-address/zm

You can also use these instructions for an RPI: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_12_B ... and_1.37.x

I tried instructions from https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installationguide/debian.html#debian-12-bookworm When I try Step 7: Tweak Apache configuration sudo a2enconf zoneminder, a2enconf is not installed. Where are the proper install instructions for Debian 12 Bookworm?> Here are the ...

My OS of choice is Debian 12. Far fewer issues that the Ubuntu distros. I do , however, manually configure the HD and increase the swap size to equal the box RAM. OK, so I am old school but I have had the OS run out of swap and go bonkers. My current box is a Dell Optiplex i5 six core with 16 GB RAM ...

What instructions did you use to install Zoneminder?
Have you matched the cam video settings with those in Zoneminder (Capture Resolution)?

Source Path: rtsp://user:password@172.17.71.52:554/11
Method: TCP

And make sure the resolution matches the cam settings! To get started set the cam main stream to 720P or 1080P

I suspect you are not using ZM 1.36 as some of your settings do not appear in ZM 1.36.36

C310 camera works ok on wired (it even formats the SD card in the camera) but doesn't work on wireless using TP-Link's Tapo Android app. It never gets an IP address assigned by the DHCP server on my TP-Link Archer C80 router. All my wireless devices connect Ok to my router. I've just been trying a ...

I would try ONVIF to see if the camera is detected by Zoneminder. I looked at the camera specs and it does not say it is ONVIF compatible but it seems to be a recent cam so it likely does use ONVIF. I would also use a micto SD card in the cam to save events as a backup in case Zoneminder goes down ...