Start recording at boot

onethumbwilly2 · Post by **onethumbwilly2** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:47 pm

How do I set ZoneMinder to start recording when the system boots?

clipo · Post by **clipo** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:37 pm

Set the monitor to record, as soon as the system finishes booting and the zoneminder daemon is launched it will record the camera until the disc is full.
And then you either need to remove the videos or set the purge filter it will just record forever in a FIFO loop, thats how I operate some of my cameras.

onethumbwilly2 · Post by **onethumbwilly2** » Sat Jan 23, 2010 5:39 pm

Will that work with motion detection? When I boot my system and login to zoneminder it says stopped. I have to click it and select start to change the system state to running.

onethumbwilly2 · Post by **onethumbwilly2** » Sat Jan 23, 2010 9:57 pm

SOLVED! sorry, I had a stray exit in one of my startup scripts.