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I have 4 X Axis 211A cameras and 2 X Axis 210A cameras that I am wanting to setup on Zoneminder. I have played around with the camera settings and see that it can trigger events by using its built in motion detection. I want to use the cameras own motion detection to take some load off the server. I can't find much information on how to go about this. Basically I want to set the camera up to trigger zoneminder to start recording when the camera detects motion. I also want to setup if possible that I can get the 5mins before and 5mins after the triggered event. I know the cameras can store up to 9mins in the on board memory. Do I use X10 for this and what do I need to do on the camera? Any help will be appreciated.

No X10 has nothing to do with camera but is for home automation so you do not need it.
If you use the motion detection in the the camera then you have no need for Zm really as you could have the camera FTP the captured images, and zm would not be able to fuction if the camera was doing the work.
Axis camera work great though and you should have no trouble setting them up but just will not work the way you suggest.

Regards,
Cordel

Hi guys
I have been searching some more and I think its the zmtrigger.pl script that I need to be using. The camera can then signal the script to trigger recording on zoneminder. I just need some help with how to get the camera to signal the script. On the camera I have the option to do a HTTP notification and TCP notification where I can enter in the port and ip address. Could someone maybe help me out as to which one I need to use and how to configure the zmtrigger.pl.

Thanks

You will probably need to add some glue to join the two together but it might be possible. Is there any online documentation for your camera so I can try and understand what capabilities it offers?

Phil

Hi Phil

So this is what I did to get this to work. I setup my camera to do the motion detection. Then setup a trigger on the camera to open a TCP port 6802 on the server. I started up zmtrigger.pl and sent through the commands. Had a few problems though. The camera outputs the string diffently than I expected. First it adds quotes eg. "1|on|2|test|test|test" and it also throws out some characters eg. 1|on+20|2|test|test|test becomes 1|on 20|...

So I had to modify zmtrigger.pl a bit to get the triggering to work. I set to triggers on the camera one to start recording and one to end. I can also set the camera to start recording on other cams eg. if motion on cam1 start recording on cam1, cam2, and cam4.

So it had nothing to do with X10 I just needed to get some reading done and I figured it out. Thanks alot for a the help and great monitoring software.