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dougmccrary wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 1:01 am Is the ground at the same potential as neutral at the shed and the house?

according to my old multimeter, yes

dougmccrary wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 8:06 pm Is earth/safety ground bonded to the outbuilding?

yes

dougmccrary wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 8:06 pm IOW, is the romex properly terminated in a distribution panel?

yes

the metal building is about 100 feet from the house
underground coax and romex from the previous millennia and previous owner
what do you suggest

old, slow, and ignorant but i got there i replaced a composite analog camera with a ahd camera the new camera had a lot of horizontal lines over the next few days i changed the camera, cable ends, and power no matter what combination it was always the same then i tried another camera and had a great ...

aliexpress has many sets of lens for phones
fisheye to long lens

i see lots of clamp on lens for phone cameras
i may try some of those
new life for old hardware

many of my cameras have a 60 degree field of view
has anyone tried to add a second lens to increase the fov

i'm using 1.34.23 on debian 12 with php 8.2 OPT_USE_API checked, OPT_USE_LEGACY_API_AUTH checked i have several cameras i've used for several months and all seems ok i wanted to use the api calls for a project to start i tried http://localhost/zm/api and get Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Unknown ...

thanks i downgraded it sorta worked so wiped the system and did a fresh install with debian bullseye and zoneminder 1.34 i do have an analog capture card and transposing 9 cameras to mp4 is too much load it looks like zoneminder has gone all wifi devices and pretty much abandoned the old analog stuf ...

i've not been able to view events when saved as individual jpeg files
viewing individual files worked in previous releases
i've asked here and got no response
if there is any work on this no one is talking
the usual response is to side step the issue with don't do that or why do you do that

is there a recipe for downgrading from 1.36 to 1.34 without loosing data and camera configurations

maybe i'm asking the wrong question
does anyone have good playback with stored frames

i've seen other conversations about slow playback but no clear resolution i'm using 1.36.33 local attached cameras if i encode to h264 playback is good at any speed if i only store jpeg frames playback is not good with frames it only plays at 1x and is choppy frame playback worked well in previous ...

what does archiving an event do

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/MySQL#Forgot_Root_Password_for_MySQL MySQL and MariaDB in Debian based distros can have the root password changed with dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-#.# where #.# is your server version (type dpkg-reconfigure mysql and hit tab). This does not affect the ZM database. using ...