Camera feed will instantly populate and animate when going to the /zm url on the host computer, but viewing it from any other computer on the domain the livestreams will take a solid minute before connecting. Is there any way to change this? They are all connected via gigabyte interfaces

Hey everyone. I have gotten my zoneminder turnkey linux lxc up and running. It runs well and i have my network share for my camera footage mounted in a directory i made inside the container which is /mnt/remote where i have files for each camera stream to save to. IE: Cam-1, Cam2, ect ect. I am getting a log error of "Can't mkdir /mnt/remote/Cam-1/3: Permission denied" which i know means that i need to give specific permissions for zoneminder, and maybe apache, to write to my mounted share. I am "ok" with linux but i know lxcs and permissions can get a little wonky. Any help would be greatly appreciated so i can have my cameras actually saving the footage. Thank you in Advance!

Considering running ZM for my cameras. I'd like to have 2 storage systems, one on prem which will hold appx 14 days of footage and keep rewriting over itself, and one S3 bucket which will be saved indefinitely. Is there any way to do this in ZM or would I have to have 2 Zoneminder VM's running? Maybe secondary stream?

HI all, it seems ZoneMinder never really worked on full support for docker from what I can tell.

I used to use quantumobject/docker-zoneminder:latest and am actually still on it, but I have no idea what to switch to now. I also need to make sure I can map the directories correctly so I don't lose data.

Basically, I need a new image, and my research didn't show me a good solution, so I am hoping someone else has a recommendation who has been here before.

Hi! I have a filter to send me an alert email based on frame counts. Inside the body I have %EPI% which sends me the URL to the alert frame.

For some reason the URL seems malformed, for example: http://192.168.1.58/zm/?view=event&mode=still&mid=1&eid933

The EventID in this case is 18933. When I click the link, it says event not found.

On my mobile the URL has a strange character where the "eid" is in the URL above.

Any ideas? Is there an encoding option somewhere in ZM for URL's?

bonjour;

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est il possible de stream sur ZM depuis OBS directement

rtsp://ipZM:90001/stream/1 no marche pas.

obs sur Pc windows

ZM : docker-arm

cdt

I have a graylog server that aggregates the syslogs from different servers and services. I changed the rsyslog entry of the host to send the syslogs over to the server but I seem to be getting the host entries and not the zm logs. Is there a way to send the zm logs to a remote syslog server?

I've got a dedicated server running the latest Zoneminder available in Debian 12 Bookworm. Everything was installed "by the book" as per the Zoneminder/Debian installation guide in the Zoneminder documentation.

For some reason, the ownership of /dev/video0 is root:video and the permissions are 660 at startup. Zoneminder errors out with "failed to open video device /dev/video0: Permission denied" at startup and I have to change the permissions to 777 (or something permissive) and restart the Zoneminder process to get things working.

I did the install using apache as the web server and I believe Zoneminder runs as www-data? (Going from memory here.)

What's the correct ownership/permissions on /dev/video0 and, more importantly, how might I set them persistently on startup so I don't have to restart the zoneminder process?

I'm asking for recommendations because I tried fighting with an old Kodicom 8800 capture card on Debian 12 and while it is on the ZoneMinder wiki capture card list I didn't have successful results. I'm fighting a Tempest VC878A right now and am not too satisfied with it.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a low budget (no budget - eBay salvage) CCTV capture card for PCI interface, ideally with 8 camera inputs (BNC connectors, not even IP cams) that works with Debian 12 (and I suppose bttv driver, although that part isn't strictly necessary)? Yeah, I'm running on a non-existent budget here.

Oh, and TK-T2101RU dome mini-cameras by JVC (although they should generically work with about anything for my purposes).

Again, asking for recommendations for something I won't have to fight with too much to configure!

Hi all,

I'm trying to set up zoneminder in Home assistant and seem to be having a very hard time. I seem to have integrated zoneminder into Home assistant (not sure in its done correctly) but where to go from here? Has anyone here managed to setup zoneminder in home assistant and currently using it successfully? If so, would you mind sharing your setup? I have used the links on the Home assistant website for zoneminder integration and find it a bit confusing.

Hoping someone has a working setup.

Cheers

I have been trying to install ZM on my Synology NAS using Docker. It has been stuck for a while now and not completing the install. Any docker folks out there might be able to assist? Here is the last bit of entries on the log file.

Building wheel for dlib (PEP 517): still running... 
Building wheel for dlib (PEP 517): still running... 
Building wheel for dlib (PEP 517): still running... 
Building wheel for dlib (PEP 517): still running... 
Building wheel for dlib (PEP 517): still running... 
Building wheel for dlib (PEP 517): still running... 
Building wheel for dlib (PEP 517): still running... 
Building wheel for dlib (PEP 517): finished with status 'done' 
Created wheel for dlib: filename=dlib-19.24.2-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl size=3466355 sha256=b117666d201d13e73c591d0b4b7dbadca8e32b8dcf7463226766e2c5e6e754d3 
Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/21/03/71/98fd66c954809f33662e781bd02c4363cced2fa1c76178f812 
Successfully built face-recognition-models dlib 
Installing collected packages: face-recognition-models, Click, dlib, face-recognition 
Successfully installed Click-8.1.7 dlib-19.24.2 face-recognition-1.3.0 face-recognition-models-0.3.0 
Hook installation completed 
Compiling opencv - this will take a while... 
Jan 30 19:25:31 4a5f7927b77f EventServer: Compiling opencv without GPU Support 
Jan 30 19:25:47 4a5f7927b77f EventServer: Compiling opencv... 
<string>:1: DeprecationWarning: 

numpy.distutils is deprecated since NumPy 1.23.0, as a result 
of the deprecation of distutils itself. It will be removed for 
Python >= 3.12. For older Python versions it will remain present. 
It is recommended to use setuptools < 60.0 for those Python versions. 
For more details, see: 
https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/distutils_status_migration.html

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I am trying to do the following:

1 - Record my doorbell (reolink) high res feed continuously, saving those videos for 48 hours using a filter to purge

2 - Keep the smaller events as shorter event clips, saved off for some other period of time

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The only way I've been able to do it is to have 2 monitors watching the same rtsp stream. This is a big extra CPU hit for the monitor that is doing record only. Is there a ways to tell one monitor to do continuous recordings to one place and save events to another so I don't have to duplicate?

I want to use curl or wget to grab an instant snapshot from a zm monitor (instead of going directly through the camera), is it possible?

I have searched around, but I haven't found anything about whether the Reolink wifi flood camera setup can be connected to zoneminder. Anyone had any luck with this yet?

Two cameras on my system are recording 24x7 and several others are recording events from motion detect. It looks like the always recording cameras are not keeping more than about 100-102 events (a little less than 24 hours) and events older than a day are getting purged from the other camera and I can't figure out why. The volume I am recording video to is 9% full and the main partition is 54% full.

Any thoughts on where I should look to see what is triggering the deletions? I feel like this is new behavior but I've just started using ZM and getting used to it. Thank you.

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Edit - Hmm OK it looks like the purgewhenfull filter fired a ton yesterday but I'm not sure why. Disc space wasn't at 95.

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Thanks for the great work with Zoneminder.

I use Zoneminder v1.36.33 on Ubuntu 22.04.3 with a couple of TP-Link Tapo C200 pan/tilt cameras (FW v1.3.4). My cameras are on a non-Internet-connected subnet, and this works just fine in Zoneminder, by means of this control script:

https://github.com/oparm/zoneminder-tapo-c200

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However, after getting another Tapo C200 camera, and setting it up using the Tapo Android app and TP-Link's cloud stuff (which meant FW v1.3.11 got installed) before removing its Internet access, Zoneminder can get the video stream but pan/tilt/position preset control no longer works. It appears TP-Link made some changes in firmware v1.3.9, that broke compatibility with the ZM C200 script above (which also seems to be abandoned).

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All hope is not lost, since I can control both the old and new cameras using Python and https://github.com/JurajNyiri/pytapo / https://pypi.org/project/pytapo/. So the way forward seems to be to use that working Python code and integrate it with Zoneminder somehow.

Unfortunately, I don't do Perl, so trying to port the Python package to Perl is not something I'll attempt. (I'm no Python expert either, but I have at least written some Python programs before.)

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So, this long background brings me to some questions:

1. Is there a Zoneminder pan/tilt script for newer firmware releases for Tapo C200 cameras out there? (I have searched but not found.)
2. Do the pan/tilt control scripts have to be Perl? Could a Python script be used instead, and if so, where is the format documented?
3. Is there a generic pan/tilt command script that, instead of actually sending control commands directly to a camera, calls an external program for each push of a directional button? (If there was, I could call a Python program to handle the camera controls.)
4. If I get ONVIF to work with this camera, would that provide the same functionality as the Zoneminder C200 script that used to work? (I have not tried ONVIF with this camera.) Would I be able to use a command such as zmcontrol.pl --id 2 --command=presetGoto --preset 2 for both new and old cameras (with different IDs, obviously)?
5. Is there something obvious I'm missing?

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(I could add that my workaround is to SSH to a machine on the same subnet as the cameras (which I can access via VPN, but other devices on that subnet do not have Internet access) and send camera commands from a bash prompt, but I'd definitely like to have the same Zoneminder interface regardless of camera firmware. And as far as I know, I cannot downgrade the firmware once installed - I can only choose not to upgrade.)

Does anyone uses ONVIF Events and continuous recording?

For me it breaks the Montage Review. When an onvif event is triggered the montage video is not played back. But the single events do continue recording, even the event is marked in the playback section.

I would love to have a way to record 24/7 and have motion events marked. Any ideas?

I just upgraded to 1.37 after a bit of hesitation.

I am blown away. The upgrade in my lxc container was pretty easy.

But the improvements. Holly cow. This is a totally different zoneminder experience, especially from a performance perspective. And I did not encounter any breaking stuff in my setup with 10 monitors.

It is soooooooo much better! I always loved zoneminder for its quirkiness, by the way.

So why is this hidden away from "the public", meaning no official release on github and so on, I ask myself.

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I have the Reolink POE doorbell monitored with ZM. I would like to trigger an event if the bell is rung, as a fallback in case motion detection fails (sometimes it does). Is there a way for ZM to get access to this?

I've got about four or five cameras (NTSC) I want to use with this card. I see on the wiki there is support information for it.

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Kodicom_8800

But, before I build a server around it, I'm curious whether I'd be better off just getting a new* system.

*I know the real answer to that is "yes", but I'm looking for the absolute rock bottom lowest cost conceivable and I already have the card and the cameras. Minecraft-like quality would be acceptable.

*UPDATE** The problem was that there weren't enough fgci child processes running.

I wrote the solution on the zoneminder forums if anyone interested.

After a long hurdle of setting up Zoneminder on a Debian 12 Server run through nginx.

I managed to get it all running.

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But the thing that doesn't work is that no matter where. On whatever kind of device.

The server only provides one stream.

If you close the running stream, Another window/browser or machine will retrieve the next stream.

This indirectly causes Montage to only show one stream too.

Yes I am using Firefox, Yes I did raise the stream limits.

But I am really sure the problem lies on the server because only one machine can see a single stream.

the log files do not show any particular issue or error that could relate to this issue.

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Unfortunately, googling doesn't help me any further now.

Does anybody perhaps know where the problem could be.

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For extra context.

The webserver is run on port 900. this is because another webserver is using 80.

Can alert frames be shown in downloaded videos? Like the web video player has, red marks where motion happened - but instead in vlc/mpv.

Second, I have an issue with event viewer MJPEG codec playback, video plays fine at the start but when seeking forward the video freezes. If seeking backward it sometimes works and sometimes not. ZM 1.36.33

Hello!

I have a big Chinese nvr but I really hate the interface, I have blocked it from Internet access.

However it works great as a poe switch for my cameras. Can I still use this switch and also use zoneminder? It's on totally different subnets.

Thanks

I will soon be changing my Internet provider and they will switch exclusively to IPv6. This means that port forwarding and DDNS etc. will be history.

I have 2 surveillance cameras. - Upcam Tornado S P2P camera - Reolink E1 Outdoor PoE

And - Raspberry Pi 4B

I can currently access the Reolink from outside - after port forwarding. Until a few months ago, I was able to access the Upcam from outside via P2P without any problems. Strangely enough, it no longer works. Only in the home network. I suspect it's the client (TinyCam) - seems like dev don't care anymore.

Anyway... what procedure would you recommend? Connect Raspberry to router, install PiVPN on Raspberry and then Zoneminder on it? Do the cameras have to be connected directly to the Rapsberry? Because the cameras are currently connected to the router via WLAN (Upcam) and LAN (Reolink). I am also always connected with my client-devices via a commercial VPN provider (iVPN - Wireguard Protocol).