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I do hope you come back with a very verbose bug report because we ARE work on finalizing 1.36 and DO need all the testing. Is 1.36 close to release? I know myself, and I imagine others might be willing to test it, if it's an rc. Somewhat more exciting to test an rc than to test something that is ...

These install documents need to be improved. I did the 1.35 version yesterday on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 install. 1) doing an apt install zoneminder does some kind of partial install, along with populating db making some steps not applicable 2) syntax errors, -uroot for example Trying to work through ...

Ubuntu (20.04) installation is covered here:
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Serv ... der_1.34.x

I recently had a 1.32 (older, yes) db get corrupted after a power loss. I resolved it by restoring the db from scratch. I have had the power drop on 1.30.4 multiple times without one db corruption. I'd say some attention should be paid to any changes that might have made the DB less resilient to ...

Try source type: libvlc. To install libvlc:
I think it is apt-get install libvlc-dev libvlccore-dev vlc

But possibly omitting vlc. Just try not to pull in X if its not required.

Restart zoneminder service after installing.

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Finding_Camera_Stream_Paths Either the path is wrong, or the camera is incompatible w/ZM. You can try different source methods (ffmpeg, vlc, remote, file, etc). As an example, if the camera can upload images to an FTP server, then you can use source: file and host the FTP ...

Buttons not working is in my experience either due to malformed install (apache config), or web browser incompatibility.

Install using Bhunge's guides on https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Contents (debian / ubuntu guides - not the official ones)

Restoring config is done by backup / restore of database.

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/MySQL

Secondary drives must be compatible filesystem (FAT32 won't work).

See
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Using_a_ded ... Hard_Drive

For a beginner, it's easiest to start with a fresh OS. You might have mixed versions of some dependency, with the added repos, and that could complicate things.

What do you mean by: Then add the old db back into mysql/mariadb and # zmupdate.pl to get the db to 1.34? At any time in your old ZM you can make a backup with mysqldump. For more details on backup and restore see https://wiki.zoneminder.com/MySQL, See the link in the backup/restore tip. If you ...

A core2duo should be able to handle 2-3 cameras. If you find performance slowing, try lowering resolution or FPS of cameras on their configuration webpage (don't set max FPS on ZM).

2-3 at 720p will be no problem. 2-3 at 4K will be impossible.

These install steps for 1.34 w/debian should work: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_10_Buster_with_Zoneminder_1.34.x_from_ZM_Repo Then add the old db back into mysql/mariadb and # zmupdate.pl to get the db to 1.34 Are you adding the external repo? What is the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list ...

Installation docs are on the wiki
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Contents

Backup any dbs and restore afterwards w/mysqldump.

If you are not comfortable with changing /etc/apt/sources.list, you should probably stick with 1.32.3 in the official Raspbian repos. More advanced users can try changing from raspbian to debian repos which have more up to date ARM packages for the RPI than the Raspbian repos. Note that I haven't ...