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What becomes 'failed' during boot? Post all 5 logs, especially boot.log and motioneye log.

Can you SSH in, or use a keyboard & monitor? If not then: Something got seriously corrupted. Start with a fresh image, either on USB with the change above to...

So delete all 5 cams, and pick another camera to do it again. Maybe the one you were adding last before.

You use the same entries 5 times same URL for all 5 cameras. For example my d-Link DCS5020L is http://IP_Address:80/mjpeg.cgi so I enter that for all 5 new cameras (plus...

So it has to do with the FTP service... For now, don't disable it, I'll look at it later.

Look in /data/etc, and /etc is read-only, changes are in /data/etc

try commands: df -h df -T motionEyeOS uses 3 partitions, overlay file systems and read-only file systems If /data is empty, the file systems are broken and you need to...

Do you have any non-alphabetical/numerical characters in the names anywhere? Punctuation, quotes, single quotes, mathmatical, etc?

Suggestion: change the names one at a time, and reboot between each change to see which is problematic.

MotionEye in Docker, MotionEye on another OS? A 'simple' (not really) solution is to have 2 cameraX.conf files, one with notifications on, and one with notifications off. Use whatever is...