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i ran into this issue once too where I somehow had managed to specify a zone larger than the image size and it perpetually recorded... so make sure all the "points" on the zones are inside the image border :p the other option is that its not perpetually recording and it makes random event sizes ...

perhaps you may want to setup the zones better so you dont get so many false alarms... I only get alerted if someone is currently where they shouldn't be :p

I dont have time right now but in the next week or so Ill write a script that makes a h.264 video of the alarm frames only and uploads by FTP this would cut down the upload size drastically and Ill post the script here for you... Flash_'s idea would work too... it would cause only alarm frames to be ...

do you have any trees etc marked out as "Inclusive" zones? cause if a "active" zone gets movement then the "Inclusive" zones can then detect movement and if it was a tree outside would make it record indefinitely

The only issue with that is my intended purpose is to set off an alarm... notify my iPhone reliably(not e-mail) and with an alert loud enough to wake me up... I also need to be sure its constant motion if its going to wake me up :p not some dudes headlights swinging by I did get all of this working ...

Ok well I made a solution myself with a bit of help from this post: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13598 #!/usr/bin/perl -w #What Camera Do you want to Monitor? my $mymonitor = 4; use strict; use ZoneMinder; $mymonitor--; $| = 1; zmDbgInit( "myscript", level=>0, to_log=>0, to ...

Can you perhaps explain that a little more? what would cause the shell script to run? I need zoneminder to call up a script

I Have a door that nobody should ever walk in front of but the odd time(once a week maybe) car headlights will fly past the area.. so I would like to externally trigger a program to play a siren when there is motion in that area for more than 30seconds(that way someone is actually there)... so ...

changing the post buffer shouldn't give you any errors at all as it is just saving for longer and not putting additional stuff into memory... with a 5s buffer you will get lots of small events... try changing just the post buffer to 90 and see what happens

if you want it to detect even the smallest motion(about the size of a person arm moving) select the preset "Best, High Sensitivity" then change Min Alarmed Area : 1 Min Filtered Area : 1 Min Blob Area : 1 Min Blobs : 1 all the rest of defaults are good... this will give you the most reliable motion ...

Can anyone(that knows) tell me if there is any potential issue using Motion(http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome) to watch the jpeg stream(http://localhost/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=jpeg&monitor=1) and trigger ZoneMinder using zmtrigger.pl? like will the sockets eventually timeout or ...

this is an excellent way of doing it... puts my method to shame but...

without really analyzing it to much id say a large chunk of the script is missing after and including the ending of the line...

Well as the title says.. I just installed Zoneminder 1.24.3 to test it out and noticed the montage view doesnt show FPS or state.. after a few hours trying to track down why, I figured id ask the wonderful intelligence that is the forum :p also the Layout CSS isnt persistent... it shows the correct ...

so after running this from the command line it now works with the web-interface so the issue was needing to restart ZOneMinder :p

well it would appear this is an issue with the web interface because I was trying to do the same thing so after trying to change it in the "Run State" drop down box I then went and changed it on the command line by running sudo zmpkg.pl Daytime which then changed the camera settings to the way I had ...