#zoneminder

My disk is 95% full but otherwise my machine has tons of resources. I am sort of at a loss as to what would make this camera in record mode flip between events so rapidly whne it is supposed to take 10 minute videos: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pdjr8h5gge9oj3z/Scree...

issackelly, I'm going to guess network issues. a quick test is to ping that camera for a long time and look for packetloss. Aother is to use zoneminder's logging and see the error when it drops.

tried a firmware update on the camera issackelly?

I am having a problem where events aren't cleanly cutting on the 10 minute section interval I have defined. At 10:00:00 for example, it may end recording, record for 7 seconds, die and then start again at 10:00:07. Or it will end at 10:00:00 and start at 10:00:02 instead of immediately.

Could this be due to insufficient image buffer counts and pre/post event counts?

What role do PreEventCounts and PostEventCounts play when recording using h264?

Would appreciate if you could comment on this ic0n when you get spare minute :)

When using h264 passthrough recording, zma will record the event start time and create the event. zmc will notice, and will then look back in it's buffer for a keyframe before the start time, and then go further back by pre-event # of frames. I think I may have mistakenly made it go back pre-event# of keyframes, which would give you event more.

I have noticed that on occasion there is some lag between zma starting/stopping events and zmc noticing.

about the short events... I am wondering if zmc is crashing.

digdilem Hmm, interesting. Thanks

I increased the ram in my system from 12 to 64GB but I can't find where to set/reset the ring buffer size. I just find several references to the ring buffer, not where the size is definied : http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/sear...

Titler: Search — ZoneMinder documentation

issackelly, it is the image buffer count on the individual montiors

Monitor settings -> buffers

I see. Thanks.

ic0n, does that work the same way if we use x264 encode rather than passthru?

ic0n I realized I'm already using your PPA. Thank you :D -- looking at moving to the storageareas and/or x264 branch

encode is different. encode is all done in zma.

x264 branch is dead. It has been merged to master.

my storageareas branch includes it

ooh, didn't realise it had been merged to master

i found this cluster install tutorial for zoneminder http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/inst... If a server dies does another server take up the responsibility of a camera's tasks?

someguy: not automatically. Not yet.

but you can script that functionality

thank you

I gave my server a ton more resources and increased all my buffer sizes and now the zmc daemons keep crashing : https://www.dropbox.com/s/nbdgx2nfq7u23vg/Scree...

i am using desktop os x version of zmNinja, and it works perfectly, however, when i try the android version i get question marks for images and this in the zm log: socket_sendto( /var/run/zm/zms-114764s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory

If you are facing issues with zmNinja, you have a few options: a) Wait for 'asker' to join IRC (US East coast time) b) create an issue at https://github.com/pliablepixels/zmNinja/issues or c) Send an email to pliablepixels@gmail.com in that order. Thanks.

"It seems the latest update of Chrome (v59) broke access if used with basic credentials. The bug report is here"

maybe its time to use zoneminder auth instead of http

-rw-r----- 1 root root 1572 Jul 6 22:35 /etc/zm.conf looks right to me but for some reason zmpkg.pl is denied permission - any ideas?

ic0n: rexd666: ^^ any ideas? https://paste.ee/p/aGBvC

We just updated to mariadb-10.1.24 but I can't think how that would be to blame.

rexd666: I just did a bit of work that cuts mysql db connections (and mem leaks) in half.

To anyone running storageareas ... I have merged some work that makes notage review less intensive as well.

ic0n: rexd666: OK ignore the above, panic over - it should of course be root:apache - and always has been in our package, how it got changed on my test machine I have no idea :\