Zoneminder

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2013–2024), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Zoneminder, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Hard to set up basic motion detection recording because the interface is hostile to newcomers2024-12-01
Event videos take about 30 seconds to start playing or seek2024-04-22
Setup requires hacky workarounds; official docs outdated and docker images unsupported2023-01-04
Needs multi-page configuration instructions, a database, and Apache config tweaks2022-01-26
Web viewing interface is slow and clunky to use2013-07-01