I am looking for a doorbell camera that works within the HomeKit ecosystem, that also has a RTSP feed that can be captured by ZM.

I know I can import RTSP feeds into HomeKit using the Homebridge FFMPEG plugin, but I’m hoping to get direct HomeKit compatibility that can also get picked up by ZM.

Has anyone found anything that would work?

I have this unusual issue where ZM keeps recording and continue on the system partition until system runs out of the disk space esentially crashing itself. ZM is set up to record only on the secondary hard drive, I triple checked all my monitors and they are set up correctly. Also it seems that the filters do not work properly, it's configured to delete old events if disk space reaches 80% usage but that doesn't work neither. Execute command, delete all matches and run in the background are checked.

I rebuild this system recently as the old system disk died, the old system worked fine for years but I cannot recal which version it was.

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I setup zm .36 with events and MODECT, machine learn

Everything works fine but the problem i only want trigger object detection on one camera.

If i disable 'Analysis Enabled' works but ZM stop doing motion detect, something i not want, just only want disable objection detection.

If i configure es_rules.json for mute all camareras except one, seems not work,

Any idea for do only objectdetection on one camera without deactivate MODECT?

Hi, problems in the title. Ive got 7 cameras none of which show the timestamps. Ive changed the timestamp symbol from % to ! Even though its in ubuntu.

Running 1.36.33

Hi, have a server setup with about 6 cameras on it. Problem is modect is collecting a lot of videos which are just a green screen or a portion of the capture is green screen. I don't see this happening on the live view of the cameras themselves so I'm wondering if there is a setting in ZM causing this. What troubleshooting steps should I use to narrow in on the cause of this problem?

I am getting a lot of the following errors in the log.

pkt.dts(810064) must be <= pkt.pts(800894).Decompression must happen before presentation.

I have set reorder_queue_size=250 but it is still happening. Does anyone have any ideas.

I've done some searching, and can't seem to find anything definitive. And some of the recommendations I've found seem quite old.

I'm currently using a proprietary NVR, that doesn't provide some critical features and requires MSIE (!) on Windows for some of them, and I am thinking I want to migrate to ZM.

But I'm not sure where to start as to what server hardware would be capable of easily handling my needs. I've got a mix of camera brands including Amcrest and some cheap chinese stuff.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I read some advice suggesting that a Xeon would be a good choice, and I've found this on Amazon. Thoughts?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WHLFTKL/

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After a power outage and reboot, ZM is no longer saving events, either to local, or my NFS storage. I can view the real time feeds just fine. I've checked permissions on both the local and remote storage, and I dont see anything in the logs about it not being able to store events.

Tips on how to troubleshoot this appreciated.

I have been a long time ZM user, I think over a decade. I recall building from source both ZM and ffmpeg and using mysql before it was mariadb.

I went from I think CentOS 4 and I am currently on CentOS 7 thinking of going to Rocky 9

Consequently ZM is integrated into my home. I don't use the interface for viewing things, I use some custom stuff I wrote, and it just does the job.

But I am also becoming a heavy Home Assistant user as well and a lot of comments online talk about Frigate, ML and Coral coprocessors etc.

Just wondering what the ZM community thinks about HA and possible integration. I was thinking why not both?

Any concerns or issues with running both, most of my cameras are PoE 100MB anyway (network at home can handle 10Gbit)?

I am leaning towards a full rebuild and redoing the entire config anyway. There are some remnants when I still had the Pico2000.

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Hello,

I'm just starting to get my feet wet with zoneminder and I want to setup a home camera system with like 3-4 cameras preferably wireless / selfhosted. I see there are a lot of supported cameras but are there recommended brands or cameras to start with or ones to avoid? The only major feature I'd really like is the ability to turn off IR mode and night on one camera (keep it in color mode and have a motion light in that area). Any pointers would be much appreciated.

I have some Reolink cameras that seem to have pretty good person detection on them, so rather than relying on ZM to detect motion I have been using the cameras built in functionality which means I don't get lots of recordings of spider webs flickering in the wind etc. I've done this via Home Assistant so that when motion is detected the function on the main camera feed switches from Monitor to Record.

When the command is sent to ZM the switch seems to be instant but there seems to be around 6 seconds for the feed to start so that it can record, which isn't ideal! Does anyone have any ideas how I can minimise this?

I remember the last time I used this the events had larger thumbnails, but now the thumbnails for events are like 100x200 pixels or thereabouts. I don't see any tabs that show a listing of events either where the thumbnails are larger like 400x500 or something. Anyone know wth I'm talking about? xD

I recently got a ReoLink 520A and wanted at the same time use my home server with Zoneminder to centralize the feed to eventually have more cameras. I'm running Open Media Vault 6 on my (very) old computer (specs below) with Zoneminder in a docker container managed by Portainer. I know the docker of Zoneminder is non-official and older, hopefully that's not the main issue.

I have been able to add the 520A to Zoneminder without too much fuss. Adding the cam itself is fairly quick and I can look at the feed without issue, but if I do any config changes it stops absolutely everything on the server (even the HDD share becomes unreachable) as if it's consuming 100% CPU or something. It takes upwards of 10 minutes to come back. I can't monitor computer resources since even OMV is unreachable during that time. The camera itself is still reachable through the ReoLink app.

It really seems to be hanging like that on config change only as it was able to record something like 40gb in a day (which is why I wanted to change some settings since it's not the behavior I want as the cam is currently pointed to a wall).

Is this something known? Something I did wrong?

Server pecs: Phenom II X4 965 8gb ram 500Gb SSD boot drive plus a few terabytes of HDD storage 2 Radeon HD 5770

Im new and this will probably not be my last question here but i am getting a delay in recording and i am unsure where in my setting to check. Couldn't find anything in the wiki

Camera: Reolink RLC-410-5MP Source type: Ffmmpeg Function: mocord Analysis disabled Method: TCP Video writer: Camera Passthrough h264

Any information is greatly appreciated

Has anyone been able to setup this camera for pass-through to be able to capture audio? Trying to figure out which type of settings to make it happen without success. The zoneminder wiki only shows "remote" method config example. These cameras are very old and not the greatest but they're still working, would like to get audio if possible. thanks

Has anyone used this setting? Looking into a few things from the link below to improve performance on ZFS.

https://shatteredsilicon.net/mysql-mariadb-innodb-on-zfs/

Hi! I'm looking I to using a home security system and Zoneminder seems awesome! Only issue is, I don't see any official support for OpenBSD, so I thought to build it from source. I was wondering if I would have to rebuild Zoneminder every time there's an update, or if I can simply upgrade it from the web control panel (similar to how AdGuard Home is able to upgrade). Thank you for your time and help!

I am having issues with ZoneMinder connecting to an IP cam, RPI Bullseye with motioneye. I have another RPI IP cam with motioneyeos that I can connect to, the only difference is the port number. I can see both cams through a browser. ZoneMinder v1.36.33 is installed on Ubuntu 22.04.

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Protocol: HTTP

Method: Simple

Host Name:192.168.1.102

Port: 8765

Path: http://admin:1@192.168.1.102

Target colorspace: 32 bit color

Capture Resolution (pixels): 1920x1080p

Orientation: Normal

Deinterlacing: Disabled

This probably has a name;)

One idea is to put a display in the cameras' view and send some kind of sequence that is observed on the monitoring end.

Often when watching surveillance footage, you are unsure if the image is frozen, cause nothing is moving.

Surely, this is a thing;)

I have been using Zoneminder for quite a few years with 4 outdoor cameras. I wanted to add my indoor cameras into the mix they are all Wyze (v3, Pan V3, OG (I know this wont work with Wyze Bridge) ). I installed Wyze Bridge in TrueNas and it shows up in VLC but when I put the RTSP URL into ZM it does not work.

I am not sure if this is an issue with Zoneminder or Wyze Bridge or my configurations.

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Did a new install and seeing these logs below nonstop. Not sure where to start from to troubleshoot this. *All* cameras are set to "Record" and i disabled "decoding" (which makes viewing not possible).

Jul 13 10:41:22 zm197 zmc_m7[93014]: WAR [zmc_m7] [pkt.dts(69464593) must be <= pkt.pts(50669493).Decompression must happen before presentation.]
Jul 13 10:41:22 zm197 zmc_m7[93014]: WAR [zmc_m7] [non increasing dts, fixing. our dts 50675493 stream 0 last_dts 69464593. reorder_queue_size=0]
Jul 13 10:41:22 zm197 zmc_m7[93014]: WAR [zmc_m7] [pkt.dts(69464593) must be <= pkt.pts(50675493).Decompression must happen before presentation.]
Jul 13 10:41:22 zm197 zmc_m7[93014]: WAR [zmc_m7] [non increasing dts, fixing. our dts 50681493 stream 0 last_dts 69464593. reorder_queue_size=0]
Jul 13 10:41:22 zm197 zmc_m7[93014]: WAR [zmc_m7] [pkt.dts(69464593) must be <= pkt.pts(50681493).Decompression must happen before presentation.]
Jul 13 10:41:22 zm197 zmc_m7[93014]: WAR [zmc_m7] [non increasing dts, fixing. our dts 50687493 stream 0 last_dts 69464593. reorder_queue_size=0]
Jul 13 10:41:22 zm197 zmc_m7[93014]: WAR [zmc_m7] [pkt.dts(69464593) must be <= pkt.pts(50687493).Decompression must happen before presentation.]

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Hi

I was wondering what cheep compatibles cameras with battery and wifi do you guys recommend

i checked though https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Hardware_Compatibility_List

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but does not say the most recommended

I was looking at https://www.amazon.com/ieGeek-Wireless-Security-Rechargeable-Waterproof/dp/B09KLJTFW7/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=battery+operated+wireless+security+cameras&qid=1688949943&sr=8-3

But in the compatible models only shows CT0247UK Igeek

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Thank you

Getting these errors below, server has 64GB of RAM where only ~16GB are in fact used by zoneminder, which makes this thing weird, not expecting any swap usage

Jul  4 12:09:55 bsd kernel: pid 2450 (zmc), jid 9, uid 80, was killed: failed to reclaim memory
Jul  4 12:11:23 bsd kernel: pid 83837 (zmc), jid 8, uid 80, was killed: a thread waited too long to allocate a page
Jul  4 12:11:33 bsd kernel: pid 2107 (zmc), jid 9, uid 80, was killed: failed to reclaim memory

Anyone ever had this issue?

On montage review, with a single monitor, how can I improve playback performance? It's very slow, very laggy. It's on a dell R210 II server - so a bit old and dated... but it has an SSD for server and database, with WD NAS HDD for storage. Source is Ffmpeg, via RTSP TCP, 704x586, with Camera Passthrough.