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Because it's my first time here on the ZM Forum, so at the beginning, I want to say "Hello" to everyone

I've got running and testing ZM 1.24.2. I have to tune it up because it eats my CPU, (any suggestions, other than these in FAQ?), but now I've got some questions:

Is there any possibility to call an alarm on the exact camera from BASH script? If so, how to do it? Can I set up the filed "Cause" of an alarm?
Is there any possibility to add to the image any text lines, using BASH script of course? E.g. I want to mix up to exact camera for 5 seconds the text: "User zuk123 is logging to the system"
How can I mark an exact events to be archived and force the system to archive those events, using BASH script?

Sorry for my poor english and thanks for your patience.

Looking forward
zuk123

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Well the simplest way you could do that is via zm trigger it allows scripting but you will have to write some perl. Or send a tcp trigger to it see wiki documentation.

But text on the image there is currently no simple way.