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Sometimes one of my camera's will lost the connection with ZM and after a while it will come back on-line so far so good. But on some days the camera will not reconnect and I have to open the settings window and click on save to reconnect again or restart ZM.

I guess that ZM is trying to reconnect but give up after a timeout or something.

Is there a setting to tell Zoneminder to try again?

ZM does try and reconnect -- so the question is -- what do your Zoneminder logs say is happening after the "signal loss" has happened? Also, are these USB connected (web) cameras, Network connected (IP cameras), wired, wireless?

ZM is very chatty about what it thinks is going on ....

Then you might got a more informed answer relating to your specific problem.

2017-08-30 19:33:54.063127 zmc_m1 10206 ERR Unable to open input rtsp://IP:8072/user=...n_password=...k_channel=1_stream=0.sdp?tcp due to: Operation now in progress zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp 269
2017-08-30 19:33:45.040907 zmc_m1 10206 ERR Unable to open input rtsp://IP:8072/user=...n_password=...k_channel=1_stream=0.sdp?tcp due to: Operation now in progress zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp 269
2017-08-30 19:33:41.016594 zmc_m1 10206 ERR Unable to open input rtsp://IP:8072/user=...n_password=...k_channel=1_stream=0.sdp?tcp due to: Connection timed out zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp 269
2017-08-30 19:33:41.013835 zmc_m1 10206 ERR Open video took more than 10 seconds. zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp 441
2017-08-30 19:33:30.090350 zmc_m1 10206 ERR Unable to open input rtsp://IP:8072/user=...n_password=...k_channel=1_stream=0.sdp?tcp due to: Connection timed out zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp 269
2017-08-30 19:33:30.088529 zmc_m1 10206 ERR Open video took more than 10 seconds. zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp 441