V1.30.4 Remastered

[Mopar93]

In the timeline window, you can also zoom in and out to view less time or more time. Instructions are listed right in the timeline window itself.

-Maurice

[Brushpopper]

lol.. well, I did not see those instructions because I usually move my mouse of the alarmed areas and then those instructions disappear. just tried it and sure enuff... thanks for pointing that out to me....

Now another question... I have a couple of cameras that are right at the limit of my wifi range and occasionally go to a blue screen for a while and when this happens I get a huge rise in events in a short period of time which sometimes causes ZM to STOP. When this happens it is random so it could be middle of the night or day and the camera video does eventually come back and stops the increase in events, so what is the best way to Autorestart ZM when this happens?

[Mopar93]

It's usually not ZM that needs to be restarted. Restarting ZM will restart everything. Sometimes, if only one camera is affected, you can restart FFMPEG for that one camera. You can do this by clicking on its entry under the SOURCE column and then click SAVE. If you prefer to restart ZM, then click on "Running" at the top of the screen, then select Restart and APPLY.

Sometimes, it helps to reposition the router that you use or move its antennae around if it has one on the outside in order to get a better signal from the camera that is giving you trouble. The best cure is to run an ethernet cable to the camera. Most WiFi cameras have real weak radios.

-Maurice

[Brushpopper]

Thanks for the input, but these are all the things I currently do when a camera goes out. As far as running an ethernet cable, the cameras that are doing this do not have ethernet connections..


I am just looking for a way to autorestart ZM when it shuts down because it is generating too many events when the camera goes blue because I am usually not sitting in front of my computer at 1am or 3am when it happens.

I know I can create a cron job or there is a way to edit the zoneminder.service file to do this.. I was just wondering if you had any more insight to one of these methods or a better method.

[Mopar93]

I completely blew past the word Autostart in your post. Or maybe it should be autoREstart. I'll have to think about a good solution as I've never had to do this. Anytime I've had a camera lose its connection, I usually just login to that particular camera and restart the camera and it gets a connection going again. I rarely have to restart ZM or the individual FFMPEG. I also use a filter to load up all events that have less than 5 frames and delete those events since they are meaningless to keep on the system.

-Maurice