Record only records nothing

[davorin]

Good evening

Installed ZM 1.35.16 on Ubuntu 20.04 now and added a monitor for a Reolink camera as record only with h264 pass through writer...

But I see nothing is recorded at all.

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Any hints?

thanx in advance
richard

[dougmccrary]

Does www-data have write permissions on the drive path?

[davorin]

Yes it does:

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total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Dez 16 20:48 cache
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Dez 16 15:17 events
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Dez 15 15:35 images
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Dez 15 15:35 temp
klingler@zm:~$ ls -l /var/cache/zoneminder/events/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Dez 16 15:17 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data    1 Dez 16 15:17 Hobby -> 4

[iconnor]

So I just spun up a clean test environment with Dec 15's snapshot. Setup went smooth and my recording monitor is recording fine. Events are being created.

So I was hoping there was a typo in the db creation script or something but it seems that is not the case.

So I'm stumped. Turn on debug logging and lets what's happening.

Please note that permissions problems would not stop db entries from being created.

[davorin]

Hmm...okidoki...

BTW: what does the orange dot means in the monitor?


cheers
richard

[davorin]

Did now a complete fresh install with Ubuntu server 20.04.1 and added the zoneminder-master repository...
This time had no database errors during install...might be it comes back when doing an upgrade...anyway...

Added a 640x480 @15fps sub stream...in record only mode...but still no recording done...


And again I don't know what the orange bullet means in the monitor overview...

Log shows nothing suspicious:

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2020-12-22 14:08:08	zma_m7		74838	INF	Garten: 1600 - Analysing at 7.14 fps	zm_monitor.cpp	1350
2020-12-22 14:08:00	zmc_m7		74775	INF	Garten: images:2300 - Capturing at 10.00 fps, capturing bandwidth 53145bytes/sec	zm_monitor.cpp	2633
2020-12-22 14:07:54	zma_m7		74838	INF	Garten: 1500 - Analysing at 7.14 fps	zm_monitor.cpp	1350
2020-12-22 14:07:50	zmc_m7		74775	INF	Garten: images:2200 - Capturing at 10.00 fps, capturing bandwidth 55097bytes/sec	zm_monitor.cpp	2633

Giving up now on zomeminder....

[iconnor]

Step 1 when trying out zoneminder: Don't start with bleeding edge development builds
Step 2 when something doesn't work right: turn on debug mode Options->Logging->LOG_DEBUG

You are obviously trying out the brand new no decoding option... but that SHOULDN'T be a problem. I've tested this mode. Works for ME!

Maybe post screen shots of your monitor settings.

[davorin]

Hmm...debugging was already on...though see only informational logs....

Here the screenshots of my monitor settings:

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Well seems I have to reinstall Ubuntu server and then install 1.34 (o;

[dougmccrary]

RTMP?
Have you tried rtsp?

[iconnor]

I think the issue is that analysis has to be enabled. It's confusing. I thought I did a good job of explaining it in this text but I failed.

The analysis process is what says "Ok now we have an event". So it needs to be running.

So check the ANalysis checkbox and all your problems will be solved. Except for the other problems.

[davorin]

Ah okay..that was it.....it is recording now..and zmc uses around 4 - 6%...

Starts recording at 20fps but then drops to around 2 - 3fps as it is now analyzing..and in the video nothing is recognizable...
I assume just recording 2560x1920 @20fps is way too much....

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2020-12-23 10:36:20	zma_m1		36469	INF	Garten: 700 - Analysing at 2.78 fps
2020-12-23 10:36:20	zmc_m1		36465	INF	Garten: images:700 - Capturing at 2.78 fps, capturing bandwidth 94424bytes/sec
2020-12-23 10:35:44	zma_m1		36469	INF	Garten: 600 - Analysing at 3.57 fps
2020-12-23 10:35:44	zmc_m1		36465	INF	Garten: images:600 - Capturing at 3.57 fps, capturing bandwidth 117452bytes/sec
2020-12-23 10:35:16	zma_m1		36469	INF	Garten: 500 - Analysing at 3.23 fps
2020-12-23 10:35:16	zmc_m1		36465	INF	Garten: images:500 - Capturing at 3.23 fps, capturing bandwidth 163664bytes/sec

And what bugs me is that it always asks me to increase buffer size:

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ImageBufferCount 20 is too small. Needs to be at least 41

Then I set it to 50, but then again:

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ImageBufferCount 50 is too small. Needs to be at least 161

thanks in advance
richard

[dougmccrary]

"And what bugs me is that it always asks me to increase buffer size:"

Yeah, it usually stops after two or three rounds...and once it stops asking, sometimes you can trim it a bit. Especially with multiple cameras.