Zoneminder Filters

Joel Mezzanotte · Post by **Joel Mezzanotte** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:06 pm

Hello,

First I would like to congratulate you on a fantastic product. I have set up my zoneminder system and have everything working great events are being generated properly. I only have one outstanding issue that I was hoping you could help me with.

I am trying to create a filter that will email me whenever an event occurs on two cameras at the same time however I cannot seem to figure out how to do this.

So far my filter is setup as the following:

if the monitor name = cam1 and the second monitor name = cam2

However this does not work (I see the reason however I do not know how to properly set this up).

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:47 am

it will be possible to do this with a filter, but I think your trying to go about this the wrong way. A filter will search all events so you will have to resrict your filters to a tight search. Plus filters don't run all the time. The run on ended events every n seconds, where n is your filter reliad time and is default 300s

Joel Mezzanotte · Post by **Joel Mezzanotte** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:27 pm

How would you recommend I go about this? sorry to be a pain but filters were the only way I saw to do this

Post by **zoneminder** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:25 pm

There is no simple way to filter on events from two cameras at the same time as far as I can conceive. It's not something that has been requested before.

The nearest thing to it would be to list events for both cameras and then look in the timeline view to see where they coincide but that is a manual process and not automatic.

Joel Mezzanotte · Post by **Joel Mezzanotte** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:06 am

Would something like this be considered for future versions? The reason we want to do this this is we have two offices which will never be occupied at the same time after 5pm. So I would like to be able to send an email/text message should an event happen in both after 5pm.

Thanks again for your time, I didnt think there would be a way to do this but i hoped I was just missing something.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:33 am

I may be wrong but i would have thought it wa sp[ossible but it would have 2 be two cams with any events between 5:00 and 5:15. Cant you use and

Joel Mezzanotte · Post by **Joel Mezzanotte** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:28 pm

Unfortunately it doesnt seem you can do this with the current filtering system. I tried to do this with and but there will never be an event that occured on both cameras at the same time so the filter shows 0.

Is there a new (or more advanced) filtering system planned for the next release?

it would be great if i could do something like

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select event where time <= 12:00 && time >=00:00 && cam1 !null && cam2!=null

anyway thanks for your help and let me know about the new filtering system.