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Hi, I bought some really cheap IP cameras from AliExpress few years back, think they were branded as Besder but I see no markings on the cameras. These are working well and I am able to use following URL format to access the RTSP feed: rtsp://<ip_address>:554/user=<user_name>&password=<password ...

Hi,

Is there an option within Web GUI to save camera configuration?
I looked under "source" but did not see any option on any of the tabs which might help save camera configuration.

Thanks,

@alabamatoy & @ayjay_seal Thought I will post some closure here if any other newbie comes looking for similar stuff! I did manage to get the garage door opener work, here is an updated video that worked like a charm! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZbTnpyZZeo Also the ZM is working like a charm on ...

Sprinkler control is also on my wish list

thanks @Jayjay_seal @alabamatoy for all the pointers, I have lot to read and ingest in coming days!!

So the Reed contact sensors mentioned in the YT video provides that "unambiguous" trigger about garage door being open or close?

That's great that you can read the license plate off camera feed, it only means that I am the moron who needs to RTFM

If you do not mind please post your camera/zone config (blanking out any sensitive details), I will see if I can mock the same set up.
Regards.

Alright now you are getting inside my head :D 1) First I thought of using my outside cameras to monitor and let my neighbors across the street know if their garage door is open. This ran into two issues namely - a) the front of their drive way looks different depending on time of the day and b) the ...

@Jayjay_seal You also raised an excellent point, I mounted few cameras outside to get a feel for setting sensitivity and motion detection. All the cameras are set to 32-bit color, 1920x1080 resolution and the main street is literally (with cars passing) about 30 feet away but I cannot read the ...

@Jayjay_seal thanks for such detailed input and even more impressed with your writing style and attention to formatting :D So I do have HA and ZM running on a dedicated Dell server machine with a decent hardware specs and also have few Sonoff switches that I bought over Thanksgiving sales :) Also ...

@iconnor Thanks

Hi, I am researching garage door openers and read few articles posted by few Home Assistant DIY enthusiasts, they have used few hardware such as opener, tilt sensor etc to achieve the functionality. I am curious if there it is possible to use a camera with ZM to ascertain (without looking at the ...

My bad, I forgot to update/close this thread :oops: The issue was likely due to upgrading from 1.32 to 1.34 version, I did a fresh 1.34x install and everything worked fine. Here is a snapshot of my configuration of ZM in Home Assistant. zoneminder: - host: !secret zm_host ssl: true verify_ssl: false ...

Just want to share that I bought this camera for under $30 and it seems to be working well with ZM 1.34x https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083T83YJQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 My expectations were low given the price but the set up was a breeze and its performance seems at par ...

Just like the scale feature we have in Montage and Camera view (3x, 2x, 1/2x, 14x and so on). It will be great to have similar scaling functionality in the view of Zone and presets. Usually the Zone and presets are much larger with high res camera and the only way is to use CTRL - to zoom out using ...

My ZM install is on a VM with Ubuntu 20.04 and ZM version 1.34, I tried another one with Ubuntu 18.04 and ZM 1.32. The configuration above works like a charm so solved the problem for now