Turning recording on/off at specific times

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nero2k3
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Turning recording on/off at specific times

Post by nero2k3 »

Is it possible to schedule when a camera starts recording?

E.g hallway1 records from 8 till 4

Thanks

Jon
jameswilson
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Post by jameswilson »

i beleive you have to use cron for this to change the states of monitors, as i dont know how to do this id record all the time and set a filter to delete events i didnt want

If you serach the forum for cron and record you should find something
James Wilson

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cordel
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Post by cordel »

See this thread to get an idea of how.
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... ght=states
Then set up crons to implement then at the times you desire.

Regards,
Cordel
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