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I'm a sleepwalker, so I installed a camera next to my bedroom to keep track of myself. However, I want to make sure zm only records events during the night. I know I can use filters to filter out unwanted events, but this happens after the recording if I understand correctly. I actually want to turn off event processing completely during certain hours (to limit harddisk usage, lessen the load on my tiny server and prove to my wife that I really don't care when she gets out of bed in the morning)
I know I could use crontab to turn off zm completely at a certain time but this would also prevent me from looking at recorded events.

Any ideas how to turn off processing for a specific monitor between certain hours?

thanks in advance,

Nico

Actually you don't need the zm daemons running to view recorded events. So using cron to stop and start zm might be the easiest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

At the prompt

easiest editor

$ sudo export EDITOR=gedit

$ crontab -e

#do something like


01 18 * * * /what/ever/you/want/to/start # everyday start at seven pm
01 08 * * * /what/ever/you/want/to/stop #every day at eight am


I think you might be able to start and stop apache which will I believer do the trick for you.