ZoneMinder never leaves "Alarm" state?? [SOLVED]

[jonofmac]

Hello,

I've been messing around with ZM for several hours now, and can't seem to find any setting or reason to why I'm having this problem.

I have a camera, aimed at the front door. I get the same issue whether it's well lit, or it's dark.

Once it detects something and triggers an alarm, it never leaves alarm state, not until I manually disable and re-enable alarms. I test this by walking to the door, and walking back. For the next 30 minutes, it sat it "alarm state", even though absolutely nothing was happening (looked like a still image, no windows, nothing moving at all) until I just stopped it.

I have it set up as a Modect camera, because I didn't want continuous recording...

Is there something I can do about this? Or a setting? Or this is intended??

Thank you,
Jonathan

[jonofmac]

Well, after letting it sit around for a day, and messing around with it more, I figured it out.

Turns out, my monitor somehow got screwed up. So I created a new one (without deleted my old one) and that just made the log go crazy with tons of crashes.

So I then deleted both monitors so that I had no monitors, and then re-added my camera, leaving it with default monitor mode. I then set the zones how I wanted them and then set the camera to modect.

Everything seems to work as expected now!

Figured I'd post this so anyone else having this problem would have something to read. I googled for hours and came up with nothing.