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Hi All,

I'm very pleased to discover zoneminder.

I use zoneminder 1.24.2 on ubuntu 10.4.2 server and I have a 7130 vivotek connected by ip.

I would like to disable some detection zones on different hour. I do some save run state but it seems like run state don't save the changing state of a zone.


To be clear when it's 8h00 I want my active zone A and B to be active and when it's 12h00 I wonder my zone A not to be active and my zone B Active.


Is it possible to do that ?

I Hope it is.

If you've got the answer, I listen you, please.

Thank you.

Gilles.

Hi,

No answer ?

nobody have got an Idea ?

Gilles

If you know can script, then here is a rough guide:

1) kill zmwatch.pl
2) Stop the zma daemon for that monitor by calling zmdc.pl stop zma -m 1
(change -m 1 to the correct monitor ID)
3) Edit the database to disable\enable the zones
4) Restart the zma daemon by calling zmdc.pl start zma -m 1


mastertheknife.

Hi ,

Thank you for your suggestion, If I don't find anything, I will try to script that.
Don't you think there is an other soft solution ? (by soft, I mean make no kill process).

Gilles.

There is currently no other method really available.

So If I'm not wrong,

I can stop zm then update my database by changing my value to Inactive and then restart, No ?

gilles wrote:So If I'm not wrong,

I can stop zm then update my database by changing my value to Inactive and then restart, No ?

Exactly. You don't have to fully stop ZM, just zma for the corresponding monitor.

mastertheknife

Thank you to mastertheknife and Cordel.

I just have to make my script and that's OK.

So my problem is solved.

Gilles

hi gilles,

how did you get ZM to read the 7130 vivotek's MPEG video stream?

Algenon

Hi Algenon,

I'm sorry for my later answer but I was sick last time.

I make a mistake about my ip camera this is a vivotek 7330 and not a 7130. And I use JPEG as MJEPG doesn't work (but I didn' last time on that)

It works very well, but I can't use the MJPEG which is best than JPEG, I think (but not sure).

If you want more informations, open a new post and I will answer what I know.

Gilles.

So does anyone know how one disable a zone? (NOTE: Setting a zone to Inactive does NOT disable it. An Inactive zone only suppresses all other Zone events within the region)..

I suppose I can try a little math trick with the MonitorID, but that's a really ugly solution.

-W

Isn't better just duplicate the monitor with different zones and then enable the desired monitor according the time, save a state, then do a cron job to the state??.

PacoLM

Keeping the zones associated with a single monitor does have some advantages, like keeping all the data referenced by region together. I simply added suffixes to the zone names (e.g. day/night), and execute a corresponding script in my crontab. That way, I could easily build onto it without needing scripting changes. Also, it gives me flexibility to create zones that are persistent all the time (not having day/night in the name). For instance, My zones are:

+----------------------------+-----------+
| Name | MonitorId |
+----------------------------+-----------+
| Driveway-day | 101 |
| Frontyard-1-day | 102 |
| Frontyard-2-day | 103 |
| Bedroom-side-day | 104 |
| Garage-side-day | 105 |
| Backyard-1-day | 106 |
| Backyard-2-day | 107 |
| Front-door-day | 103 |
| Bedroom-side-night | 4 |
| Garage-side-night | 5 |
| Backyard-1-night | 6 |
| Backyard-2-night | 7 |
| Frontyard-2-night | 3 |
| Frontyard-1A-night | 2 |
| Driveway-night | 1 |
| Frontyard-2-inactive-night | 3 |
| Frontyard-1B-night | 2 |
+----------------------------+-----------+

my crontab looks like:

# at 6 am... shift to day parameters
00 06 * * * /root/zone-day.ksh >> /root/zone-update.log
# at 9pm... shift to night parameters
00 21 * * * /root/zone-night.ksh >> /root/zone-update.log

where zone-day.ksh is:

#!/bin/bash
# zone-day.ksh
/root/zone-monitor-modify.ksh +100 night
/root/zone-monitor-modify.ksh -100 day
/root/zone-update.ksh

#!/bin/bash
# zone-night.ksh
/root/zone-monitor-modify.ksh +100 day
/root/zone-monitor-modify.ksh -100 night
/root/zone-update.ksh


#!/bin/bash
# zone-monitorid-modify.ksh
mysql -e "use zm; update Zones set MonitorID=MonitorID+'$1' where Name LIKE '%$2';"

and obviously

#!/bin/bash
# zone-update.ksh
zmu -m 0 -L -U username -P password
zmu -m 1 -L -U username -P password
zmu -m 2 -L -U username -P password
zmu -m 3 -L -U username -P password
zmu -m 4 -L -U username -P password
zmu -m 5 -L -U username -P password
zmu -m 6 -L -U username -P password
zmu -m 7 -L -U username -P password