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Since my zm machine does not have alot of horsepower, and because I get alot of false alarms from clouds and other shadows I decided to get some X10 gear so I could trigger events with a motion sensor and not have to analyze every frame.

There is not alot of information about X10 and ZM, just a few notes in the documentation and practly no posts in the forums regarding it.

I dont have any X10 devices so I found a guy on ebay who sells new X10 gear at what seems like good prices, his the ebay store is http://stores.ebay.com/Digitronex-Domain and I got the following Items for a total of $45 shiped

EagleEye Motion Sensor (MS14A) *
Transceiver Module (TM751) *
Remote Chime Module (SC546) *
X10 FireCracker Computer Interface (CM17A)
* These were all the same auction in a bundle for $33/shiped

They are currently on there way so I am not using them with ZM yet, from what I gather tho this should be what I need for my purposes (to trigger recording on front side of the house and chime in the living room when recording takes place).

Anyone else using X10 motion sensors to trigger alarms? If so how well does it work and do I have what I need?

well I just got my kit today, got it all setup and it chimes when motion is detected.. I can turn on and off the receiver using bottlerocket from command line but I cant get it to trigger an event

I have the X10 and Device Serial perl modules installed, my motion sensor is device 1 on home A, camera function is NoDetect and X10 trigger is enabled, the Input alarm string is 1+60 and I have restarted ZM.. Yet when the chime goes offf ZM does not start recording