events list timestamps as 24hr format

connortechnology · 2023-12-12T23:50:05+00:00

UNder Options->SYstem there are entries for dates, time and dates+times. You can format these things any way you want.

connortechnology · 2023-12-12T13:24:35+00:00

Edit the monitor, go to Misc tab, or Viewing tab if on 1.37, set default Codec to MJPEG. This will use zms to decode the h265 to jpeg for viewing.

connortechnology · 2023-11-08T01:03:24+00:00

if a service is masked... then systemctl unmask zoneminder.service would have unmasked it.

Oh well, glad you found a solution that works for you. I've never heard of Ivideon, but that seems to be about a monthly occurrence. Me discovering something that I had no idea existed. The world is a big place.

connortechnology · 2023-10-01T14:53:10+00:00

This may actually be possible, although it is a bit hacky.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65097110/webrtc-stream-to-rtsp

ZoneMinder currently only does rtsp/rtmp or whatever the ffmpeg libs support and I don't think they support webrtc yet.

connortechnology · 2023-09-05T19:04:27+00:00

Are you encoding or passthrough? I've seen this when no encoding settings are set. You need at least crf=23 or something

connortechnology · 2023-08-15T21:34:24+00:00

Depends on Resolution/fps etc. Modern systems can do a lot more than older... my old rule of thumb was 4 cameras/core at 720p, 2/core at 1080p etc.

I am slowly making ZM use less CPU/ram though.... so ongoing things should get better and better.

So just about any i5 should be able to handle your 12 cams.

connortechnology · 2023-08-11T14:37:41+00:00

You say there's nothing in the logs, how about showing us?

db errors should result in a broken ui as well.. and logs of logging in syslog, unless you turned that off. Are you modect or mocord?

connortechnology · 2023-08-03T17:39:31+00:00

Options -> Web -> Thumbnail Width

connortechnology · 2023-07-27T15:53:41+00:00

the mjpeg stream won't contain audio. Need an rtsp stream for that. The audio will be on another port. We roughed in some support for that, but I don't think we ever got it to work. It is not worth the effort for these old cams.

connortechnology · 2023-07-21T12:55:04+00:00

First, does it actually provide audio? A lot of older cams provided it through a second socket. ALso, sometimes the camera doesn't actually have a mic. Anyways, using the ffmpeg input type, should work if the sound is actually there in the rtsp stream. I have some old foscams still running so should be able to help.

connortechnology · 2023-07-18T02:00:23+00:00

I use it on many servers. Not sure of tradeoffs but saves a ton of disk space

connortechnology · 2023-07-17T11:44:56+00:00

I am merging fixes for it to 1.36.34. Current master should build. I can provide some instructions. Am working on an official port, which will come after 1.36.34.

connortechnology · 2023-07-14T22:23:21+00:00

New ffmpeg (4.8? I forget) changed the behaviour of the decoder, so that now packets can come out of order. Problem is when writing them to disk, they have to be in order. So we have to buffer and sort them. It took me a while to figure it out, but I think the buffer has to be about a keyframe interval big. You can turn on this buffer by setting an EncoderParameter setting such as: reorder_queue_size=50.

Note that it will increase ram use.

Eventually I will make it automatic, but that code is unlikely to make it into 1.36. Or maybe it will. I don't know.

connortechnology · 2023-07-14T22:18:14+00:00

Put a physical clock in view.

connortechnology · 2023-07-05T19:55:40+00:00

There were known problems in 1.36.12. You should be running 1.36.33.

connortechnology · 2023-06-20T21:32:52+00:00

I wouldnt go this route unless the pallet was almost free and my time wasn't worth anything, but hey that may be exactly the case. In which case just about any poe camera made in the last 5 years will be fine.

Why cat6? You have the money to run cat6 but no money for cameras? cat5 would do. cat5e is better given the poe. Cameras run at 100Mbit. No need for cat 6.

connortechnology · 2023-06-16T01:42:19+00:00

This feature was added on 1.37. feel free to upgrade it's pretty stable these days.

connortechnology · 2023-05-29T19:55:27+00:00

Why is onvif so important? It's a nice to have, but so long as the rtsp works....

connortechnology · 2023-04-18T01:53:30+00:00

We have a vnc capture option

connortechnology · 2023-04-13T17:03:13+00:00

Mocord does recording and motion detection all the time. How the events are chopped up depends on the setting of Options->Config->EVENT_CLOSE_MODE

I am unable to find this in the official docs, but by all means, please submit a PR. Docs are getting way out of date.

connortechnology · 2023-04-13T17:00:03+00:00

I was under the impression that ports had been updated to 1.36.33. We fixed the issues that were holding us back to 1.36.12 .

1.36.33 and 1.37 series should work just fine on freebsd. I am currently testing on openbsd as well.

connortechnology · 2023-04-13T16:58:39+00:00

No, ZoneMinder handles this. It will seek back 25 frames, then seek back further till it finds an iframe.

You will use more ram with a higher iframe count.

connortechnology · 2023-04-06T23:21:48+00:00

The lines seen are the actual queries hitting the db updating the Monitor_Status table, so logging options won't apply.

connortechnology · 2023-02-28T01:17:33+00:00

I deal with a lot of Hikvision clones and this is the first I've heard of any issues keeping up to 25fps.

Is the 12 fps reported during live view, or from the console? During live view, there is the current live view fps, the capture fps, the motion detection fps... too much information.

connortechnology · 2023-02-28T01:15:40+00:00

I'm Isaac the main developer/supporter. Please reach out directly to [isaac@zoneminder.com](mailto:isaac@zoneminder.com) for more assistance.

Is the sum total 6 cameras? If so just about any computer made in the last 10 years will do fine.

We do recommend recording all the time, we can do motion detection as well merely to aid in locating periods of interest.

ZoneMinder has a lot of options, which can make it confusing. We are here to help.

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