See comments below: On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 11:27 AM Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Both presentations were recorded and I think Michael has them. > Will pull them. > > Check at the bottom of my instructions for the chown command - I believe > the way that the API works that zmninja uses is that zmninja writes out > window configs to a settings file via that API and the webserver has to be > able to write to a location to save those. The latest installs of apache > run httpd under a non-privileged user while that location that the zm > install creates is owned by root thus the webserver can't save the settings > there. That might be your problem. > Will have to check it out, all of the other installations work with ZMN just fine. I set the horizontal number of screens and it sticks. Just this one. > It always shocks me how poor "home security" video is that gets posted on > TV news clips. A brand new RLC 820A 8MP fixed cam is $72 off Amazon. A > "name brand" Axis 2MP cam used runs around $35. You can get 10-packs of > Ethernet-to-CCTV PoE coax baluns for around $35 off Ebay so even if you > have an "old school" coax setup you can switch it over to IP cameras really > cheaply and a used 2MP Axis IP cam is 4 times better than a CCTV D1 cam. > Yes and what they charge for those pieces of crap is shear highway robbery. I have been using SV3C cameras (they keep on sending me free samples to test B-] ) Same thing I run them on an isolated network that only ZM has access to. That way they cannot call home. But I use all kinds of cams as long as I can get to the video source. Somewhere back in ZM history is a piece by a guy in the UK, he had some guy speeding through the subdivision (Estate for them) he lived in, they tried to get him caught but they never were, he already had ZM running so he wrote some code and setup a second camera was able to catch the plate on the vehicle and provide the speed by doing speed calcs between the two cameras. According to him the cops used the video data to nab the guy. > > The only reason people don't do it is sheer laziness because they then > have to switch out the DVR for a modern NVR and using ZM that's cheap, too > particularly since we are awash in cheap used pre-Nehalem CPU PCs thanks to > Microsoft forcing it with Win 11. > Yes everyone I have set up on ZM does not want anything else, and it allows them to buy different cams for different applications, I know a fellow that uses his ZM also to collect bird video in his yard. I have a WX cam setup facing SW the direction we get bad weather from, just to monitor what is coming from that direction. > > Did they catch the perp? Yes, it was not hard. We had the jeep his fat tattooed arm and the left rear tail light was inop.... The best part was when the sheriff deputy told me the video was the best home NVR video he had ever seen. And since I was able to give it to them in jpg screens also, they had some software that was able to enhance it. That is why they came back and asked for more. I will pull the videos and check those > > Have a great weekend there. Again great info on ZM.
