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Just found wiki and the thread linked below showing its possible in ZM 1.29 to setup 2 streams at different reso from one cam as described above. Will test if only low resolution videos can be sent with email notifications. Hope this functionality will be preserved in H264 Videostorage. I wonder if ...

I haven't seen real ZM Roadmap - does it exist? Therefore, I doubt there's no shortage of good ideas, unless you can show how they are weighted and added to ZM Development Roadmap. In fact, there is ALWAYS shortage of bright ideas capable to look at familiar things from a totally different ...

Are you zmNinja developer? :wink: Btw, I read the discussion you're referring to, and while several ways exist to accomplish similar goal, I think H264 Videostorage feature should fully use capabilities of modern H264 cams, and most such cams output at least 2 streams at different resolution. Hence ...

This story reminded me Nostalghia...

A separate question: is it possible to use motion detection processing by the cam chip instead of decoding and processing it by ZM motion detection algorithms? If the cam allows to stream at low framerate most of the time, and at high framerate when motion is detected, or using a similar ...

Another alternative suggested by Motion devs is to capture, once motion is detected, main stream for high quality recordings, and second low resolution video:audio stream for email notification movies , since many moderns cams offer 2 different H264 streams, like 720P and SIF(525) 352 x 240, both ...

Can you explain, why do you prefer namely Fedora (server?) for RPi?

For ZM home users, webmail, ftp, cloud servers are viewed as safer storage options than keeping video footage at home, as burglars can easily destroy them if quickly accessible on a PC hard drive. Email notifications are good and timely pieces of evidence, but without some video or animated gif ...

I changed the path and restarted ZM and Apache. Disk tools still show ongoing disk writes when IP Cam monitor is open, about the same as before. Almost no writes when its closed. Is there anything else to change to eliminate these senseless disk writes? The problem is, when ZM is run from SSD or ...

as ZM decodes frames the image is shared with streaming, if that is active, using shared memory, no idea if streaming is what is writing to disk. When cam footage is viewed in ZM Viewer (which is a Firefox tab), the browser actually uses decoded-reencoded stream H264-to-MJPEG to show camera footage ...

Steve, I really appreciate your help on the forum. Keep in mind though, its all parties beneficial process, since ZM users gladly pinpoint bugs and headaches they face at configuring ZM and making it work, thus inspiring devs more problems to fix making ZM a better overall package. :D Speaking of ...

Is it possible to send motion detection event email notifications with animated GIFs as attachments? This Tutorial shows how to configure ZM with MP4 videos as attachments. But full scale videos may be large and not exactly suitable for email notifications. While a single animated GIF may cover the ...

I'm new to ZM, so try to figure out its full potential for my tasks. I found ZM H264 Video Storage Branch on Github. The description says, the branch supports direct recording of h264 cameras into MP4 format uisng the h264 Passthrough option, but only with FFMPEG Monitors currently . Is this option ...

@bbunge Thanks for pointing to that. As mentioned here , I lately reinstalled ZM. Before it didn't work with all setup exactly following your guide. After reinstall, I indeed forget to change this path - sorry. Now I changed it, and both cam pictures show up right away. I think, ZM install script ...

@ SteveGilvarry Thanks for the detail reply and willingness to troubleshoot: user@Mint17 ~ $ sudo ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled [sudo] password for user: 000-default.conf user@Mint17 ~ $ sudo ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled -al total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 15 19:41 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root root ...