Measure the sky with your hands

Jovan Stosic August 14, 2021

To get started, hold your hands at arm’s length in front of your face.

Now raise your little finger. The width of the tip of your little finger at arm’s length is about one degree. So if you are looking for an object that is one degree away from Jupiter, for example, place your little finger next to Jupiter and you get the approximate distance to the object.

Raise your three middle fingers to measure 5 degrees.

Clench your fist or hold your hand like a policeman stopping traffic to measure 10 degrees.

Now stretch your thumb and little finger as wide as you can (one full hand-span) to measure about 20 degrees.

[ubuntu] Zoneminder upgrade – 1.26 to 1.32

Jovan Stosic August 2, 2021

Thanks! as it turns out, I did indeed install 16.04 of ubuntu … however, I ended up right back where I was. I actually ended up removing ZM and totally reinstalling (dropping the database etc). As it turns out, the whole problem was the typical path issue. Unfortunately, EVERY REFERENCE I COULD FIND re: how to ensure that the script alias and PATH_ZMS variable was set correctly, referred to a console OPTIONS ==> PATH setting that is NO LONGER present on 1.32 of ZM. which brings up a curious problem as to how to ensure folks new to this level of support can possibly find the correct answers online without having to actually make a post. When the actual functionality of the product changes like this, and the old docs are still readily accessible.. it makes it difficult to keep from pulling out your hair. I was unable to figure this out until I actually SEARCHED GOOGLE for “ZONEMINDER MISSING PATH_ZMS” at which point, i found the handy site that explained as how these path variables are now in zmcustom.conf as noted here (if this is allowed https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewto…=27722#p108059

Once I realized that the path variables are now in zmcustom.conf in /etc/zm/conf.d the world was a much better place, and immediately the camera i had defined started working. I simply had to insert “/zm” in front of the default setting there. Getting a few other cameras to work was very difficult due to odd FOSCAM HD camera settings, but I finally got there. We’re back in business – though i do have to re map my zone on the motion detection camera.

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