MQTT

[atlas]

I have openhab and Eclipse Mosquitto running on the same machine that has zoneminder on it. It looks like the mqtt currently implemented is for subscribing to topics only? I get two error msgs, MQTT publish returns 4 Interrupted system call & MQTT connect returns 15 Block device required

The way I think it should work is to publish messages. So on a Linux machine, apt-get install mosquitto (apt-get install mosquitto-clients as well) and this could send a simple msg to your home automation stuff like turning on a light, or sending a email/sms. This would be far simpler than what ever the current thing is now.

Is there a way to run a command when a camera triggered? If there was a box/empty field for a command when a camera is triggered would be nice, ex,

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 mosquitto_pub -h host -t zoneminder –m FrontDoorAlert

[iconnor]

It should do both. Wwe publish new events. But it's not well tested. No one is using it.

[atlas]

It should do both. Wwe publish new events. But it's not well tested. No one is using it.

Hmm, Im still having trouble. 1.37.65

I tried a different approach, I opened up two remote terminals on my zoneminder/mqtt/openhab machine. One terminal I give command

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mosquitto_sub -h localhost -t zoneminder

and the other terminal I send it a message

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mosquitto_pub -h 192.168.46.3 -t zoneminder -m hi

. This works.
Next I try this from the my desktop computer

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sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/mosquitto_pub -h 192.168.46.3 -t zoneminder -m hi

and the message is received on my zoneminder machine as well.

So I move on to the zoneminder web gui - defining monitors -> recording tab -> Event Start Command:

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/usr/bin/mosquitto_pub -h 192.168.46.3 -t zoneminder -m hi

and no luck on that approach as well. I feel like I am getting close.

[iconnor]

ZM appends event id and monitor id to the command, maybe that is screwing up mostquitto_pub. Maybe try wrapping it in a script which ignores command line parameters?

[atlas]

ZM appends event id and monitor id to the command, maybe that is screwing up mostquitto_pub. Maybe try wrapping it in a script which ignores command line parameters?

I think I got it to work (mqtt Publishing) via Recording --> Event Start Command
I put a very basic script in /usr/share/zoneminder/www/ and named it trigger1.sh

the script:

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nano /usr/share/zoneminder/www/trigger1.sh

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#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/mosquitto_pub -h 192.168.46.3 -t zoneminder -m hi

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chmod a+x /usr/share/zoneminder/www/trigger1.sh

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chown www-data:www-data /usr/share/zoneminder/www/trigger1.sh

Back to zoneminder in the field "Event Start Command" I put :

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./trigger1.sh

When I triggered manual alarm I got the "hi" message using terminal with

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mosquitto_sub -h localhost -t zoneminder

So this is good enough for me. Thanks for your help, it would be nice to see mqtt fully implemented and buffed out someday as I think its here to stay and going to be used in everything in the future.