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This type of question is asked periodically in the hardware queries forum. See: https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewforum.php?f=14&start=20 https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=33071 https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=30166 With regards to your post, I would recommend Debian over ...

Have 8 cameras. Only need low-moderate frame rate. Using motion detection. Looking to update from 1.34 and put it on a different box - Dell Optiplex 5040, i7-6700 with 16G of DDR3 ram. 500G 7200 RPM HDD and 500G m.2 SSD. Running this headless. Seems like hardware is overkill so I may run some other ...

I'm having some issues with zmtrigger. I found that if I tried to do 3 recordings in one command only the first two happened. And a few other questionable things. Not sure they are zmtrigger issues but think its time to upgrade to a current version and see if things work better.

Yesterday I had someone come by the house and drive in the driveway. That zone has been working pretty well but for some reason motion detection didn't generate an event. I have another driveway sensor that was triggered and sent a command to ZM (or at least should have) to capture an event and that ...

I see some other threads where the API method is suggested. I could try that. Got any python examples of doing that? Most of my coding is stealing others code.

I saw a comment somewhere that it might be possible to trigger multiple zones with one command. If that's true I could try it but need to know how to form the command. I looked at my zmtrigger log file but not sure how to interpret it. There was a trigger at 19:45. It's not too huge so will include ...

Got triggering via zm triggering working so thought I would trigger multiple cameras. The first two happen but the 3rd doesn't. Wondering if I need small delay between commands - am I giving it too much at once? Commands are from a python script on another network device. Here are just the lines for ...

I have 1 camera that has started giving me trouble. About a week ago I noticed the IP was in red and couldn't get an image from it. I unplugged the camera network cable (powered over ethernet) and tried a spare camera I had (just a different IP I had set up in ZM but wasn't currently using). That ...

Is there some way to detect if camera is in B/W or color? If so perhaps I could disable trigger for a few frames on mode change until the reference image catches up.

Seems we need a way to flush the reference image or someway to regenerate in just a few frames for large changes. Maybe there exists something like that?

Spoke too soon! It didn't work yesterday at dawn but did in the evening and this morning. The morning shows 7 alarm frames and some actual events are only 5. This is with a precursor zone. Ideas?

The image blend change seems to work at least on the change to B/W tonight. Will give it a couple days to see how it works.

alarm frame count is already at 5. Not sure if that was a default or if I changed it at some time. I did notice that reference image blend was set to 6.25% (indoor) so changed it to 12.5% (outdoor) - I think that just updates the reference image faster so that should help. And it is an outdoor ...

Looking for some help with this and have read up on it some... For a camera on my drive I have only the area of the drive as a detection zone. When the camera shifts it goes from b/w to color or vice versa. For the trigger I am looking at it triggers for 7 frames. It looks like the reference image ...

Just getting started with email of events and just using the default message contents. It's working ( a bit too well - I need to tune motion detection and/or change the threshold for email so I don't get so many false alerts :) ). But the link in the email just gives an error. Using the parameter ...