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Hi All,

Running ZoneMinder 1.24.x with a Foscam 8904 a while without problems. Uses the search quite a bit, but I am having troubles getting the following implemented:
- No events set
- Want to have 2 or 3 frames per second recorded (so far no problem)
- Saving 24 hours of frames in one movie (avi?) file on another hard drive

The last part I cannot find a good "how to". Most things I have found are collecting events, but I just want to have a day of half second frames in one movie.

Any help, or link to something usefull is greatly appreciated

Do you know anything about scripting?

Probably can do it with appending.

Write to cron to start a script that sends one file to the hard drive and appends it to the master file for that day, then send another copy to another file to save the ten minute increments or whatever you record at.

Probably have to write the cron script to start and stop apache and start appending all at the same time.

write to cron something like

1 0 * * * /file/file/script

then in the script something like

restart apache


sleep 590s

append to long file

mv to storage

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None of that makes sense?

install zoneminder on another machine

split the signal

set the recording time to a day on the other machine.

or


if its cctv, I don't know if there is IP conflicts running the camera into two inputs, split the signal and have it run into the machine in another input and set that to record for a day.

whenever a camera breaks I split the cctv signal so that there isn't a blue screen