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No log entries indicating zmwatch had done anything. I also tried setting the timeouts to something like 9000 - but no different. I have noticed today my ISDN link is rather sluggish and losing packets - it's possible packet loss is causing the zmc process to get stuck. I'll get Telstra to check up ...

jameswilson wrote:Or you could frame skip, it would still download the image but discard it

I was trying to avoid the bandwidth use... 64kb/s isn't much to play with, especially when i want to use it too

You may find that zmwatch.pl is killing your capture daemon because it thinks it is dead (because it isn't getting an image often enough). Check in your messages log or zmwatch.log to see if this is the case. I looked there (and in the logs). The line below seems to take care of that by placing a ...

I have Zoneminder running for a couple of IP cameras locally, so when I wanted to record the images from a webcam on the web, outside my control, it seemed like a logical thing to set up a remote monitor with a max frame rate of say 0.00055 frames per second (ie 1 every 30 minutes) to match the ...