mocord

pigpen · Post by **pigpen** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:34 pm

I have just a few cams setup. I have created zones to watch for activity.
With them set to mocord, they record continously. A new file is created every 10 minues. I have made sure there are no trees or bushes in the zones. Ideas?

Thanks!

Mark

Post by **cordel** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:42 pm

So what is the question?
Sounds like it is doing exactly what it's supposed to.

Regards,
Corey

pigpen · Post by **pigpen** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:52 pm

Well, maybe I am missing the point of morecord. I though it was to record only when there was activity, not all the time, to save disk space.

Mark

Post by **cordel** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:02 pm

What your looking for is modect.
Check the README.

Regards,
Corey

pigpen · Post by **pigpen** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 6:04 pm

Better...much better. However, I hae a B/W cam that did fine on motion & record during the evening, but during the day...nothing. I have an IP cam setup, and it is working fine. Any ideas of a cause?

Source Port is enabled
Max FPS: 20
NTSC
Capture Palett Grey
320x240
Zone is 100%
Type: Active
Preset: Fast, High Sensitivity
Alarm Color: 255/0/0
Alarm Check Method: AlarmedPixels

Mark

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:17 pm

what do you mean 'nothing'?

robi · Post by **robi** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:03 pm

pigpen wrote:Well, maybe I am missing the point of morecord. I though it was to record only when there was activity, not all the time, to save disk space.

To be honest, it took me some time to really understand the difference between mocord and modect from your readme. This is probably because of this:

README.html wrote:This is a hybrid of Modect and Record

Non-native English speakers, like me, find difficult to understand exactly the meaning, as in non-English languages hybrid means that the result is partly made of the two.
While, as far as I understand, mocord = modect + record. So not partly, but functionally fully, am I right? Perhaps this is why pigpen is missing its point.
Also

README.html wrote:Modect – or MOtion DEteCTtion. All captured images will be analysed and events generated where motion is detected.

does not state clearly that the events generated actually mean recordings generated.
Or do I understand well, that in the eyes of ZoneMinder, event = recording? In that case, what extra events are generated during mocord, when motion is detected? Because recording is always on...

Could you please rephrase these?

Perhaps some explanation would also be good in sense of deifining 'event' and other terms used in the document.

Thanks alot, in the name of the non-native English speakers, who may be a bit confused when certain phrasing is there.

ammaross · Post by **ammaross** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:27 pm

Better...much better. However, I hae a B/W cam that did fine on motion & record during the evening, but during the day...nothing.
Preset: Fast, High Sensitivity
Alarm Check Method: AlarmedPixels

The Fast, High Sensitivity preset defaults to 8% of the zone needing to be alarmed for the record to happen. Probably works fine at night due to headlights and the like, the daytime, a person walking by the camera off 30ft probably won't trigger 8% of the zone. Try switched to Units: Pixels and dropping it down to 600 or so for the min alarmed area and see if that works. I use a min of 250 for our parking lot (has stalls more than 60ft from the camera, so need it for car prowls), and about 550 in large in-door rooms.

Non-native English speakers, like me, find difficult to understand exactly the meaning, as in non-English languages hybrid means that the result is partly made of the two.
While, as far as I understand, mocord = modect + record. So not partly, but functionally fully, am I right? Perhaps this is why pigpen is missing its point.

Hybrid actually is a combination of two sources, so mocord is always on recording + motion detection overlayed in the result. Great way to view, from the thumbnail, where all the activity happened across the duration of the recording, rather than having to actually watch it.