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Hello, I have installed two Wanscam cameras at home, both of which are the same model. One of these works fine, the other doesn't. I have set them both up in the same way. I see: http://fredboniface.co.uk/imghost/wanscamfail.png PC Load is never above 0.6 on a dual core machine, not sure what could ...

Okay, I haven't set up any cameras yet as they are taking a while in the post so I will do that as I have nothing to lose.

Thanks,
Fred.

I have gone through the Wiki again today to see if I missed something and am still finding the issue. Where are the directories 'events' and 'images'? Would a simple chmod command fix this issue?

Hi, I have gone back through the Wiki and followed every step regarding Ubuntu 14.04 and am still finding that loading up the web UI for Zoneminder presents me with: Cannot write to content dirs('events','images'). Check that these exist and are owned by the web account user I don't see any mention ...

Now I get the error

Cannot write to content dirs('events','images'). Check that these exist and are owned by the web account user

I presume this is a simple permissions fix but I don't know which permissions or files need changing.

Thanks,
Fred.[/quote]

Sorry,

I edited the above post as I made a stupid mistake

It is version 14.04.3

Thanks for your swift reply, I have followed the instructions and have got to: Open Zoneminder. Click on Options - Paths Change PATH_ZMS to /zm/cgi-bin/nph-zms To do this I presume I have to access the UI at 'server-ip/zm' but I get an error. It appears there is no service at /zm. As part of the ...

Hello, Zoneminder updated today and when I try to start zm I get: user@ubuntu:~$ sudo service zoneminder start Starting ZoneMinder: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Unknown column 'IsActive' in 'field list' at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 333. failure I am new to Linux and use it as a home automation and ...