Capture every minute

theneb · Post by **theneb** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:09 pm

Hi all, I'm looking to just use zoneminder to do a single capture from a camera every minute. Is there a command I can run with cron to achieve this? Or a full reference to what exactly each zm command does?

Cheers

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:18 pm

just set the monitor to 0.016 fps or 1 fps and a frame skip of 59

theneb · Post by **theneb** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:17 am

This works but we there are serious performance issues, mainly due to the fact that we require to record at realtime for security and one frame per minute for general users.
Defining two sources locks up the cpu and delays recording, ie the timer on the source will show that it's capturing every second but the image will refresh every 4 seconds.

Any ideas?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:59 pm

i dont understand, maybe a full explaination of what your tring to achieve?

theneb · Post by **theneb** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:13 am

I need to keep a realtime recording of the camera,
Then I also need to capture one frame every minute and put that on a website.

Post by **zoneminder** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:46 pm

Have you tried making the second monitor (the one minute interval one) point at a zms stream of a single jpeg of the first and setting that to capture every minute?

Post by **cordel** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:03 pm

You can set a cron job on the web server to wget an image from the ZM machine with:
wget http://<your_IP_for_ZM>/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=single&monitor=2&scale=100

This will pull the current image from the zm monitorID 2.

You can also use zmu to pull one image on the ZM macine it self.

zmu -m2 -i [-U<username> -P<password>]

theneb · Post by **theneb** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:29 pm

Hi Cordel, cheers for the reply.
zmu works fine

slahm · Post by **slahm** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:40 am

Does anyone have an example Cron Job to PUSH the image from zmu to an ftp server, as my connection is unreliable, and needs something to wake it up sometimes - it is a sat connection. They also do some very creative incoming shaping.

Any advice here?

Thanks in advance.

Peter Hunt

gpMobile · Post by **gpMobile** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:29 am

When I enter http://<your_ip_for_zm>/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=single&monitor=2&scale=100
into my browser I get a blank page. Trying wget http://<your_ip_for_zm>/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=single&monitor=2&scale=100 just gives an empty file. Is there something else I am missing. I would love to get a capture every minute.

Program working fine otherwise. Just trying to fine tune out cloud shadows and fine tune in cars pulling into the driveway

Using 1.23.2 on Ubuntu installed from a .deb package.

Thx.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:19 am

do you have auth enabled?

gpMobile · Post by **gpMobile** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:52 pm

Not yet.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:10 pm

when you view a live image through the console, right click on the image ot view the path and post it here

gpMobile · Post by **gpMobile** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:41 pm

Stupidity on my part. I figured it out while messing with zmu. It helps to address the right monitors. I have 3, 7 & 10 but I was relating them to my actual /dev/video devices which are 0, 1 & 2. It works now.

Thanks