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by zaphyr
Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:41 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: sync events to Dropbox
Replies: 4
Views: 2747

Re: sync events to Dropbox

Update for anyone interested The solution above did not work, as incron does not watch folders recursively To solve this I'm using a python script called watcher.py together with a config file watcher.ini, which recursively watches a folder and based on certain events can trigger a command. In my ...
by zaphyr
Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:03 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: sync events to Dropbox
Replies: 4
Views: 2747

Re: sync events to Dropbox

Ok, so it seems to be working now. I set up incron using information found here: howtoforge/triggering-commands-on-file-or-directory-changes-with-incron This is what I did: sudo incrontab -e 'sudo' is used because the cronjob is going to invoke the 'chown' command. For normal commands which doesn't ...
by zaphyr
Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:46 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: sync events to Dropbox
Replies: 4
Views: 2747

Re: sync events to Dropbox

Does Dropbox upload it after you changed the owner of the directories? You could try to change the owner using a crontab. I don't know if it works, but give it a try ;) Yes, if i chown the events directory it syncs fine both ways, but next time ZM creates new event pictures/folders I loose ...
by zaphyr
Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:15 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: sync events to Dropbox
Replies: 4
Views: 2747

sync events to Dropbox

Hi, I'm using Zoneminder 1.25.0 with two local USB webcams on Linux Mint 14.1, and initially everything is working fine. I symlinked the events folder to my Dropbox, and it works partially. I say partially because there are some issues syncing both ways. There's no problem for Zoneminder to create ...