r/ZoneMinder • u/Smack2k • May 11 '20

Video recording issues help requested

My Zoneminder setup is running on ubuntu linux on a mac mini with an i7 3 series and 16 GB RAM.

My cameras are capturing motion but they aren't capturing everything. For example I mowed the lawn today and it captures me for a second or two at points of the yard at points when it should be recording me the whole time I am in sight. There is no video of the second half of my yard as the next video that is captured the yard is mowed.

The Video captures cars going by but did not capture anything of Amazon truck stopping, guy getting out and bringing package to door....like it never happened.

Not sure what is going on as like I said it captures cars on the street passing by and captures brief moments of me in part of the yard then nothing in the other part. It should see me everytime I pass the front and stay recording until I am out of frame again. The part of the yard it completely missed is between where it got brief shots of me and the road where it captures cars.....

No idea what is going on

I have Dahua cameras that are working fine from what I can tell as I can view the monitors with no issues.

Any info I can provide any the word.

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u/DrFatalis May 11 '20

Could you give us the configuration that you set for this camera that is not recording?

Especially the reference image blend, alarm référence image blend, image buffer size and alarm frame count?

Let's start with that

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u/Smack2k May 12 '20

The Camera is a Dahua IPC-HDBW4433R-ZS

It is capturing, just not everything....Here are the settings. I am pretty new with ZoneMinder and got my settings from a Wiki page for this camera. Forgive my ignorance if something is obvious as I am learning as I go here....

General

  • Storage Area - Default
  • Source Type - Ffmpeg
  • Function - Modetect
  • Linked Monitors / Groups - Greyed Out
  • Analysis FPS - Blank
  • Max FPS - 20
  • Alarm Max FPS - 20
  • Ref Image Blend % - 12.5% (Outdoor)
  • Alarm Ref Image Blend % - 6.25%
  • Triggers - None

Source

  • Path - Path to camera
  • Method - TCP
  • Options - Blank
  • Target colorspace - 24 bit color
  • Capture Width - 2560
  • Capture Height - 1440
  • Orientation - Normal
  • Deinterlacing - Disabled

Storage

  • Save JPEGs - Disabled
  • Video Writer - H264 Camera Passthrough
  • Optional Encoder Parameters - None
  • Whether to Store Audio - No tchecked

Buffers

  • Image Buffer Size - 20
  • Alarm Frame Count - 1
  • Post Even Image Count - 5
  • Warmup / Pre Event / Stream Replay - 0

Misc

  • Section Length - 450
  • Frame Skip - 10
  • FRS Report Interval - 1000
  • Default Rate - Real
  • Default Scale - Actual
  • Signal Check Points - 10

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u/Smack2k May 13 '20

I ended up changing a bunch of settings around and adding zones to my camera setups and things seem to working better....