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Hi guys, I've been experimenting with Zoneminder for a week or two, intending to setup 2-3 Foscam (probably) network IP cams eventually.

Initially I'm testing with just one new Foscam FI8910E over the ethernet connection.

I've followed some of the wiki and other posts I've seen with suggestions on how to set these up. I've tried with both the videostream.cgi and snapshot.cgi and noticed some pretty serious lag when using videostream (at least after awhile, even when geared down to low FPS in the camera URL). So I'm preferring to use snapshot.cgi at the moment, but I think either method I choose I'm still seeing this problem as of now.

I don't think I was originally, but now it's pretty consistent and annoying.

I'll get motion detected (when in 'modetect', of course) and the monitor goes into alarm state, but then it sticks there indefinitely, long after motion has ceased in the (small-ish, maybe 10% of full frame) single zone I have defined.

Any help on what might be causing this or where to start the troubleshooting?

I look at the picture (in the live feed mode, where you click on the camera name under the "Name" column on console) and it appears to be static as you'd expect. I don't think I've changed any odd settings that might have influenced this, and I'm always using the 'presets' on the zone. Normally, I'm using the Fast/Low or Fast/Medium sensitivity preset.

I'm really eager to get this working smoothly, but so far, it seems a way off. Thanks for any assistance!

I eventually fixed this, and can't remember exactly what I did, but I'm pretty sure it was just to "factory reset" the entire ZM installation (not a total re-install necessarily, but a database delete, etc.) -- once I did that and ran through a new simple setup, things worked as expected, so I must've hosed up something during my initial experiments.