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I am attempting to use Zoneminder in a retail environment and there's one feature that I think would be invaluable.
I'm a programmer myself, with a fair amount of experience in C, Java and even a bit of assembly back in the day, so, given a little information on where to start, I would be willing to give this a crack myself.

Basically, EPoS security systems usually have a camera located somewhere over the terminal, watching the keypad and drawer. There will then be an ascii feed, taken from one of the serial ports, which would usually be routed to a journal printer or external display, but in this case will feed a video overlay device to overlay the receipt information on the camera feed.

This is all doable with the existing system. What I would like to add is a way of bookmarking the video recording at each line fed from the journal printer output. Teeing the serial output to the Zoneminder box would be straightforward, but adding the bookmarks or chapter titles is where I'm at a loss. That said, I haven't yet looked at the project files.

I would finally like to add this bookmark list to the recording review system, including the over-the-web streaming to allow quick jumping to any of the bookmark points.

Is this going to be a straightforward project or is Zoneminder not build in such a way as to allow such functionality to be added?

you could use the notes field of an event. Also if you used nodetec and forced alamrs you could have single event reporting

Hi James... thanks for the reply.
Does the alarm feature create multiple video files, each relevant to a particular alarm?

Given the following...

1. The journal events will often be as quick as 1/sec.
2. I want to be able to list events as they might look on paper, i.e. a receipt roll and allow immediate jump to the event on video on clicking the relevant line. Also, playback should be continuous from that point, despite there being many events.

Is your solution still workable?

I hope I have been clear in my descriptions.

I think you might be better doing some of this outside zm, ie create another sql db and keep the events in that, and just refernece the images for retrieval