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Is it possible to make option "Section Length" active with modect? Some events are very long... Short post buffer is not solution. Thanks for your response.

Currently this isn't possible. I am looking at various ways of improving the navigation within events though.

Phil

this can be a very important feature.

Did this ever get solved. I would love to limit the duration of motion detection recordings to the section length if possible. At the moment I run a script under a cron job to kill all zma processes every 10 minutes. It kills everything though on all cameras, even motion detection events running for a few seconds.
If this is of use to anyone, here it is:
sudo pkill -e -f "zma"

You can get a little more discerning and kill only those cameras that have lots of motion going on with:
sudo pkill -e -x -f ""/usr/bin/zma -m 2
where the last number is the camera id.

Using the selection length for each camera seems the obvious and best solution.

It would be perfect if Section Lenght worked also with MODECT, I have the same situation. I have 15 cameras in a hall of a restaurant where it has constant movement of 11 AM-22PM, I end up getting videos of 5gb hours