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If you are looking at doing something with events, also take a look at the event server - it taps into shared memory to report events, so it notifies as soon as the event occurs (nearly) https://github.com/pliablepixels/zmeventserver Thanks for the hint - will have a go at this at earliest ...

rockedge wrote:Here is a script that monitors events via zmTrigger.pl This is modified to run some tests but it works and perhaps will inspire a direction to go to find what you seek.

Thanks. Exactly what I was asking for!

The script on the wiki FAQ (http://zoneminder.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-can-i-use-zoneminder-to-trigger-something-else-when-there-is-an-alarm) leaves room for a number of improvements. - Polling every monitor every second is not very elegant. - Same alarm will give continuous triggering ...

Hi Holger, I'm new to it all too, asked a question here some time ago (https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=24415) for which I up to date have got no answer to. However, I today probably cracked the same Perl problem you are reporting. Seems like ZM sample scripts does not match all ...

...What I do it run an instance of live555ProxyServer to "condition" the feeds from my cameras before Zoneminder... Thanks! I will take a look at this if I can not get a stable feed from my cams. With my fingers crossed, I've not seen any grey outs after reducing the video compression in my cameras ...

Thanks for the feedback iconnor.


I've now disabled zmf and restarted the service.

We'll see how things turn out; I'm eager to place an order for my third ACTi cam to complete the setup around my house...

Yes, I do have the frame server daemon enabled. I chose this since I'm running on a "slow" hardware (Raspberry PI 2) with storage on an external USB disk (mechanical, 2.5"). I don't know the speed of the USB-bus of a Raspberry, but since power is low I suspect it to be slower than in a traditional ...

@SteveG: Soon after reverting monitor one to Remote from ffmpeg at about 1600 hours today I got into trouble again... ... at 2117 hours I turned on my HiFi stack (including a Sonos Connect) the (R)STP protocol of my main router had to counter a network loop (which is business as usual if you have ...

I have 3 cameras hooked to a RPi2 (two of them with motion detection enabled) and it seem to run fine on the CPU budget of a RPi2; total average load is roughly 25% when no streaming (active viewing) is taking place. At 640x360 and 3 fps each zmc (image capturing process) eat 15-20% of CPU (since ...

Update: I've run both my ACTi cameras on variable bitrate / high quality / H.264 Main Profile for more than 10 days now without a glitch... :D The log is also much more calm now; no decoding errors. I've now swapped back monitor 1 to "Remote" again. Here is a process comparison between two zmc:s ...

Thanks for your thoughts Steve, I really appreciate your feedback. I'm new to ZM, but I've been working with UNIX/Linux for the last 20+ years. What memory figures should I concentrate on? /dev/shm has been mentioned in other threads, my Raspberry Pi 2 is rather "fixed" on that, 1 GB RAM and a SD ...

I assume your Apache is not running on the router, but on a LAN behind it. Port forwarding makes web requests from WAN reach your web server, but for the web server to be able to reply to the caller situated on the WAN the computer need to know a route back to the WAN, or have a default gateway ...

Weekend update libvlc didn't work, or my setup is missing something?. I haven't tried any long term test with ffplay as I do not have any monitor connected to this Raspberry (yet). I could use a remote screen via ssh -X but have opted out on that for the time being as it would add additional ...

Sure looks like some bug to me - with exception for the first crash, zmc aborts after exactly the same amount of runtime: 2h16m32s (roughly 25400 frames). Date/Time Delta Component Server PID Level Message File Line 2016-03-17 06:47:46.302242 02:16:32 zmc_m1 7607 FAT Unable to decode frame at frame ...

OK, it took a little bit less than two hours running number one of the "grey out" monitors on ffmpeg and we have got ourselves a new scenario. xmc exited at 21:41:38 with an error status of 255 and was restarted. The monitor of this camera is now constantly flickering between image / grey 100 ...