Zoneminder events

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kvincench
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Zoneminder events

Post by kvincench »

I have zoneminder installed on Ubuntu 8.04. I have 4 BNC cameras hooked up to a capture card on a desktop. Everything runs fine, and the events for zoneminder output to /usr/share/zoneminder/events. However, The directories are named with the numbers of the cameras i.e. 5, 6, 7, 8. With that said, the events files themselves when saved are randomly numbered. Im guessing this pulls from the database itself. Is there anyway to have the frames output as the date and/or time that the events occured? It is very hard to archive and and find specific events if I am not able to search the directories by date.
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kingofkya
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Post by kingofkya »

to ways use the web interface and click frames to get exact time

or

under options --> Images -->

enable
ADD_JPEG_COMMENTS Add jpeg timestamp annotations as file header comments (?)
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Post by kvincench »

What i meant by that post was...when the events output to the events folder...i see them as numbers and i dont see the time or date in there. Is tehre a way i can seee the date and time under the events folder or do i have to rename all of the folders..
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Post by kingofkya »

I dont have a non 1.24.2 zm system so i don't know for sure but i believe it goes I cant remember but hour might not be true

camid --> month --> week -->day -->hour
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Post by kvincench »

Not on the files in the events folder. For instance..one of the folders is named "4105" and then it will contain all of the jpeg files for that event id. Im sure it goes by event id because it will be (camera name-id number). Its impossible to find events when they are numbered liek this
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Post by whatboy »

USE_DEEP_STORAGE... if you activate it, all prev events will be deleted... but it will use YEAR/MONTH/DAY structure folders...
kvincench
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Use_deep_storage

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How do i get to use_deep_storage configuration under options?
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Post by kingofkya »

upgarde to 1.23.3 or later version of zm
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Upgrade

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is the upgrade a seamless upgrade from 1.22.3 to 1.23.2, or do new packages have to be installed and so on.
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