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I havent had any updates to my CTU install for quite a while (hope that doesnt sound un appreciative).

What distro is CTU based on and has anyone tried upgrading it to Centos?

Any issues reported with this RPM, was going to give it a go but dont really have much time to debug any issues.

Hi, Thought I had my settings for my zone sorted, but the UK has been hit this week with a lot of fog, which to my camera I thought it was snow. ZM was going mad constantly alarming, I had hundreds of events so I had to stop the service. My settings for the zone are: Type Active Alarm Check Method ...

Fantastic, thanks

Is there any way to have a capture card that has an output so I could somehow watch the camera on TV?

If so what components would I need?

KR
LD

Yes, havent touched it. Where and what should I tweak? TIA

LD

Hi, Just moved my test camera from within my garage to outside my garage covering the drive and a courtyard. All alarms worked fine inside the garage now and alarms are generated fine when I approach the camera in its new location from say 6-12 ft, but not when I actually get in my car from say 20 ...

I think you are right, running off another machine now with no issues.

Same here, awesome images

Switched back to my original machine so will soon see if it is h/w or s/w.

Hi, I have a custom PC with an ASUS A7M266 MB, 2 x PC210 256MB DIMMS, AMD Athlon 1.4, Nvidia TNT2 Ultra, Intel 10/100/1000. Capture card is a 4 port Provideo http://www.provideo.com.tw/PV-149P.htm I have ran Memtest86, twice and no errors have been found. I have disabled all unnecessary services ...

Awesome, thank you!

Just stopped ZM and had this issue, also my machine crashed with lots of kernel debug messages on the screen overnight and had to power off: Stopping ZoneMinder: Message from syslogd@Host at Wed Nov 2 14:06:55 2005 ... Host kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'zmc', page ...

Hi, I have been experimenting with emailing and ftp'ing of events. I noticed that the mpegs can get quite large for emails, easily get to > 5 MB which lots of people block that size. Has anyone changed the format of the videos so that they are smaller in size and therefor can be more easily emailed ...

Very strange, built another PC used the same hard drive (exactly same config) as the old PC, booted up Kudzu did its job, and all works perfectly. I wonder if it was an IRQ issue?