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I do not remember having to do anything special to get ZM to listen on a particular interface. I have 3 different ethernet ports on my ZM and have each one set with a static IP address. ZM shows up on all three addresses without me having to do anything in particular. One of the addresses I use for ...

You could possibly pay for some help from the Zoneminder guy(s):
https://cloud.zoneminder.com/services.html

They do remote assistance. It might be worth some dollars just to get a good basic setup.

This is what I get to see. I don't know what it means. ZoneMinder Error Unable to connect to ZM db using dsn ZM_DB_TYPE:host=ZM_DB_HOST;dbname=ZM_DB_NAME You have to put your database type, host, username and password in /etc/zm/zm.conf Find the parts that look like this and change them to match ...

My issues were my wife's wind-chimes, bugs flying around the cameras at night, and random rain. I have motion detection on all the cameras using the main stream - that view at low-resolution but record at high resolution, and then I use the low-res stream to constant record to a different hard-drive ...

This sounds like a raspberry pi project.

https://hackaday.com/2014/07/29/a-cheap ... ave-lives/

..if you like dinkering with that sort of thing.

Very cool. Your persistence is admirable. It took me about a week to get ZM fully working, then another week to figure out how to get zones working.

Another thing I did that I just found in my notes was to disable the ZM apache config located in: /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/zoneminder.conf This is a symlink to /etc/apache2/conf-available/zoneminder.conf so you can delete it, restart apache...if it helps then keep it deleted, otherwise just create ...

I am guessing you have been doing this already, but just in case: Are your permissions all correct? Have you given www-data permissions on your storage and such? I suggested this to one guy, but he insisted this broke his database, which is a funny thing to say. Here is from my notes (which I kept ...

In my notes for setting up ZM I have this:

finally, run:
and (changing username and password to match my setup)

In my config I have: Alias /cache/zoneminder "@ZM_CACHEDIR@" <Directory "/var/cache/zoneminder/cache"> Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All <IfModule mod_authz_core.c> Require all granted </IfModule> </Directory> I think the "@ZM_CACHEDIR@" is a variable for the cache directory, but it ...

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Can you post what your apache config file? Are you using the /zm path? I switched mine to root / folder level since my server is ONLY doing zoneminder. I can post my apache config if you want, which is currently working with 1.37 on Debian 12.

I had a sort of similar issue that I tracked down to my ZM was looking for my cache at : /var/cache/zoneminder/cache rather than just: /var/cache/zoneminder so I made a symlink like: ln -s /var/cache/zoneminder/ /var/cache/zoneminder/cache ...and that seemed to fix several little issues. not sure if ...

I personally have a VPS through vultr.com that I pay $5.00/month for. It is running Debian 12. I have a couple of websites on it, but also have it set up as an OpenVPN server. I used a script from GitHub to install Openvpn, and it made setup fairly easy: https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install I just ...

Sorry that happened. It is working for me. Having said that, I have run across an odd little thing that may or may not be related to your thing. (I should probably post this on github issues) On my setup I have /etc/zm/conf.d/db-user.conf that has my database credentials. The contents of that file ...