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Hi Guys,

zmfilter.pl is exiting 'abnormally'.

I am running a 1 cam system (Axis 207W) at 320x288 on MoDect.

All would appear to be working normally but some motion is not picked up.

For example, this morning, events show:

1. Wife Going to Work
2. Son going to school

But in between the two, daughter went to school right through the zone but it wasn't captured??

There is a small issue in the logs but I don't know if it is related.

[root@localhost ~]# tail /var/log/messages
Dec 11 09:22:40 localhost zmdc[11484]: INF ['zmfilter.pl' started at 07/12/11 09:22:40]
Dec 11 09:22:40 localhost zmdc[11430]: ERR ['zmfilter.pl ' exited abnormally, exit status 9] Dec 11 09:23:00 localhost zmdc[11430]: INF [Starting pending process, zmfilter.pl]
Dec 11 09:23:00 localhost zmdc[11430]: INF ['zmfilter.pl' starting at 07/12/11 09:23:00, pid = 11496]
Dec 11 09:23:00 localhost zmdc[11496]: INF ['zmfilter.pl' started at 07/12/11 09:23:00]
Dec 11 09:23:00 localhost zmdc[11430]: ERR ['zmfilter.pl ' exited abnormally, exit status 9] Dec 11 09:23:40 localhost zmdc[11430]: INF [Starting pending process, zmfilter.pl]
Dec 11 09:23:40 localhost zmdc[11499]: INF ['zmfilter.pl' started at 07/12/11 09:23:40]
Dec 11 09:23:40 localhost zmdc[11430]: INF ['zmfilter.pl' starting at 07/12/11 09:23:40, pid = 11499]
Dec 11 09:23:40 localhost zmdc[11430]: ERR ['zmfilter.pl ' exited abnormally, exit status 9] [root@localhost ~]#[/i]

Any assistance greatfully received.

The errors you see are probably not related to your issue. However it would be worth checking zmfilter.log to see what is in there.

You probably need to check the tuning of your zones, perhaps your daughter is small enough not to trigger motion or the lighting etc was different. You will need to experiment to get the right settings fro your environment.

You have posted this in the 1.23 forum, is that the version you are running?

hi,

i had same issue, but could solve it by installing perl-ModuleLoad. youi can get more detailed error messages when starting the filter in the cli.

hope this helps