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I am using the distro on a computer hidden in a utility room and connected to my big screen TV in the living room - allowin me to check out the cams as well as surf/read email etc. I run a USB-cable and a DVI/cable trough the wall to the utrility room. Now my problem is that my RF wireles keyboard ...

I found another tread were it was proposed that one may need to override the card info and it tried adding: options bttv card=103 tuner=4 to the modprobe.conf and this got zone minder working! I got the same message in the linux logs as was mentioned in the other thread (using tuner = -1) so it ...

I first tried the live-CD but it did not work with my graphic card (I suspect the CD tried to use the VGA connector but I have my monitor connected through DVI - the only way to connect my flatpanel). After that I tried to install the ZoneMinder distro and that worked after some fiddling about. When ...

I am not a Linux expert but rather a regular (reasonably computer savy) person that happen to own a Grandtec 9-port card and really would love to set up a video supervision solution around my home. It seems like ZM is a really nice program IF I JUST COULD MAKE IT RUN... I tried (and failed) to make ...

I had a lot of problems with trying to build and install under Fedora 3 (both with the database as others have pointed out and with the perl scripts - something wrong with the constants, some were not defined etc). Itried to fix the problems by hand but must have missed something because I do not ...

How do I handle the situation when my camera automatically switch from day to night vision - this causes a lot of changes in the picture but I do not want it to trigger an alarm...

- Trist

Can ZoneMinder somehow take advantage of cameras that do simple motion detection themselves in order to only let ZoneMinder spend CPU time on pictures when there are any changes in the pictures? There are for instance digital capture cards and web-cams that can detect and report when there are ANY ...