camera control script design question

[alabamatoy]

I have a camera that sometimes needs to be rebooted. I have a camera control script which correctly reboots the camera. But of course when I do this, it causes the monitor to crash and hundreds of log entries (buffer overflow) get written as a result. Manually turning off the monitor via the console before the reboot is not possible because then I cannot access the control page.

Question: How can I turn off the monitor from within the control script, then turn it back on again after the reboot?

[knight-of-ni]

From your script:
1) Send API command to stop the monitor
2) send reboot command to the camera
3) Send API start command only after the camera is back online.

See the documentation for the zm API:
https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html

Here is a bit a code from a bash script I use to check if one of my ip cameras is up:

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CURL="/usr/bin/curl"
stop=0
# Stay in a loop forever until the first camera responds
while [ "$stop" -ne "1" ]; do
    $CURL -o /dev/null --silent --head "http://192.168.1.89"
    result="$?"

    if [ "$result" -eq "0" ]; then
        stop=1
    else
        echo "No response from camera. Waiting..."
        sleep 1
    fi
done

Naturally, replace the ip address with the ip of your camera