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Just a little idea to replace the quite complex method to start/stop zm, from the console window (now You must click on the "Running/Stopped" link, then, when the popup window opens, You choose the desired new state, then click "Apply", and wait for the popup to close and for the console to refresh ...

Good. Thanks.
And kudos for Your work !

zoneminder wrote:I'm not sure I exactly understand. It uses Stopped to express the system state, are you saying I should change what this is in the Italian language file?

I think so. In Italian, "Fermo Immagine" means "Still Image", "Arrestato" means "Stopped".

Please, check the console status page, I suppose it now uses $zmSlangStopped = 'Fermo-immagine'; variable, and not $zmSlangStop = 'Stop'; , which is the correct translation for the status of the server (though I think we could translate it as 'Arrestato', which sounds more italian ... ;-). Seeing ...

Hi
thanks, very good !
I will test 1.22 as soon as it's out ..
Thanks again ...

I mean I think Your personal opinion is convincing ...

hmmm, I think You convinced me ... I will keep using ZM just for surveillance ...
My best regards.

... I could quickley knock up and intruder alarm prog but the hard bit is getting alarms into the pc. I see ... You mean motion detection is not sufficiently reliable ... :roll: I have never used 'motion detection' as a true trigger. I think its useful for increasing frame rate etc when motion ...

... I see. I think it's very important in order to consider using ZM as a 'surveillance' tool: if my webcam detects a thief in my home I (or the police) would need to be alerted IMMEDIATELY, not some minutes later ... For the same reason, another important issue (I already read about it in the ...

Most important is subject = "ZoneMinder: Alarm - %MN%-%EI% (%ESM% - %ESA% %EFA%)" body = " " You can fill the body (between the quotes) any way you want. With the incorrect syntax (subject="" and body="") the filter errors out. Corey Thanks: I didn't got the point ... now it works very well ...

... and, I forgot, about my email problems, Yes, I did set all the options, this is my opttions (this is the windows screenshot: http://marcosolari.homelinux.org/zm/temp/zm-options-email.jpg ). Yes, in the logs I found many errors, due to an empty $text variable: how can it be ? Two points, here: 1 ...

I see. I think it's very important in order to consider using ZM as a 'surveillance' tool: if my webcam detects a thief in my home I (or the police) would need to be alerted IMMEDIATELY, not some minutes later ... For the same reason, another important issue (I already read about it in the forum ...

O.k. Sorry, I didn't completely understand filters logic, now I do (hopefully ...)

Thanks ...

Hi, all ... a couple of questions ... - how can I check why my ZM doesn't send nor emails nor messages ? can I rise debug levels someway ? What should I check, first ? I enabled both emails and messages, of course, in the setup window ... - a 'design question': are emails and messages sent only ...