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I'm running ZM 1.30.4 on Ubuntu 17.10, both of which I've recently upgraded to from ZM 1.30.0 and Ubuntu 16.10. I have an IP camera which can output multiple versions of the same video (Trendnet TV-IP572PI). To reduce the CPU load of motion detection, I have set up 1 monitor in Zoneminder to receive ...

Well in fact I've now solved this and the solution is very simple, although I'm extremely confused about why it works. I changed the value of the PATH_SOCKS option to point to a different folder and both problems are solved. In my case I created a folder in "/var/cache/zoneminder" and gave it the ...

Thanks bbunge, I see that there is no build for 17.10 in the iconnor PPA which explains why your wiki page says to use the zesty .deb, however all of the actions from the other steps in your procedure are already done on my system. I uninstalled Zoneminder and re-installed as per the wiki for good ...

Hi, I've been using ZM for years on Ubuntu. I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 16.10 and ZM 1.30.0 to Ubuntu 17.10, and ZM 1.30.4. ZM appears to be working capturing events: i.e. I get email notifications when there's an event. However I now see two problems in the ZM web console: The status is ...

Well after 9 days and about 800 events later, not a single video is truncated, all of them have the same number of frames as the original event, and the addition of "< /dev/null" after the ffmpeg command doesn't seem to have adversely affected the operation of zmvideo.pl.

Problem solved!

Hi, I'm running Zoneminder 1.28.1 on Xubuntu 15.10, and have it set up to automatically generate a video and email it to me immediately after it's detected an event. I've noticed that some of these videos are truncated, i.e. the video ends before the end of the event: they have fewer frames in than ...