how to start/stop zoneminder at a specific time?

salix · Post by **salix** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:58 pm

Hi there!

I am actually using a system I built with the latest zm livecd. It works very well and gives me exactly what I was looking for...
The only thing what I was not able to find is how to use the programm time-activated. I dont want the system to record during 08:00 - 15:00 because there is a lot of motion in this time that is not of interest to me.

My first idea was to use cron but perhaps there is an undiscovered feature already built in?

I hope that this isn't a silly question that has been answered a thousand times before but I couldn't find an answer...

Best regards,

Salix

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:23 pm

idont know how to make it do what you ask but yes it is possible i have read it somewhere on here. If it were my system the only way round it i caould see would be to set a filter to delete everything between the times you say.

Would end up at the same result. I beleive phil is working on an interface just for this but i could be wrong

James

Ruler · Post by **Ruler** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:25 pm

Do a search for run states and you should find what you need. Basically save the status of the camera set to a recording state, then use cron to switch them to the appropriate recording state when you want. I'm doing the same thing on one of my systems here - continuous recording during the day, motion detection at night.

voronwe · Post by **voronwe** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 7:26 am

Hi Salix

Check the following thread. : http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4131

And yes u can use cron to make the changes, it is pretty easy.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 7:54 am

is there a gui for cron?

James

voronwe · Post by **voronwe** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:23 am

Hi James

You can allways use Webmim : http://www.webmin.com

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 1:50 pm

ah true
I will look at that Thanks Mate

James

salix · Post by **salix** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:12 pm

sorry that i didn't respond earlier...

I guess changing the states via cron did it for me. I'll see if I did the setup right whenn I get to look at the machine again, but I'm quite sure that I did it the right way.

Thanks a lot!