ZMA not starting in modetect?

lister · Post by **lister** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:34 pm

Hi all,

Been scratching my head to work out why I'm getting no events generated. Finally realised the zma daemon was never started no matter what mode I select for my monitor.

I tried manually starting with:
zma -m 1
and sure enough, when I waved in front of the camera I got events!

Only problem was the images came up empty in my browser, and upon looking in my images folder they are all 0 bytes.

Soooooo, anyone know why zma isn't starting and my images are blank? I am guessing it's maybe some kind of permissions problem?

I've looked for a zma.log with no joy, and the only zma messages in messages.log are from when I ran it manually, and they all seem ok.

hushpuppy · Post by **hushpuppy** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:57 pm

First thing i would do would be to raise the debug level.

(Options / Debug / ZM_EXTRA_DEBUG & raise ZM_EXTRA_DEBUG_LEVEL , maybe start at 3 for this )

lister · Post by **lister** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:10 pm

Thanks for the response :thumb:

I've set those and restarted, but bizarrely it's now all working!

I honestly can't think of anything I've changed that might have effected it, but I'm just happy it's working, thanks.