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Ah, now I understand. Thank you, Andy.

Also, I set the keyframe to 1 per second.
Not a hard rule, but 1 thread per motion detection works best in my experience.

Please explain how & where you set the keyframe and "1 thread per motion detection". On the camera or in ZM or both?

Thank you

That was it!!!!!

I modified install.sh as suggested, re-ran the script, double checked configuration files and ran a test. All good: no errors. Started the eventserver.

Thank you so much!!

UPDATE: Still trying to get Hooks installed but without success. install.sh has section : echo "Removing old version of zmes_hook_helpers, if any" ${PY_SUDO} ${PIP} uninstall -y zmes-hooks >/dev/null 2>&1 ${PY_SUDO} ${PIP} uninstall -y zmes_hook_helpers >/dev/null 2>&1 ZM_DETECT_VERSION=`./hook/zm ...

ZM 1.36, ZMES 6.1.28 on Ubuntu 24.04. When installing ZMES with hooks, the follow is reported: (Note: no issues/errors running ZM or ZMES without hooks.) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/dick/zmeventnotification/./hook/zm_detect.py", line 27, in <module> import zmes_hook_helpers.utils ...

Update:

Probably not the best solution but managed to get everything working with:
sudo -H pip3 install pyzm --break-system-packages

Running ZoneMinder 1.36 on Ubuntu 24.04. No problems with install and console shows no errors and events recorded as expected. Followed docs to install eventnotification and during ./install.sh received error that python3 could not install imutils. Followed alternative and installed imutlis with ...

My fix was to run: a2enconf zoneminder, then systemctl reload apache2, which failed with "Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration". entered: a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart, then systemctl restart apache2 ...

Were you able to resolve this issue? I have same problem.

Thanks for pointing out the criticality of the "/". I corrected the path to "/var/cache/zoneminder/events/", which corrected the error.

I have a new install on Debian 11 and followed the installation guide with dedicated disk mounted using systemd. The disk mount and binds have been verified. I am getting the error: "Cannot write to event folder sdb1/zoneminder/events. Check that it exists and is owned by the web account user ...