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Hello All,

I was wondering if it is be considered to incorporate a time-of-day feature into the different zone types?

I have a situation where we monitor everything all the time. But would like to ignore certain areas in camera view during certian hours, while other areas 24x7.

This way events are not triggered by people in certain expected areas during business hours, while events will be triggered in those areas after business hours. This is important becouse our NOC uses the email notification feature. But right now they get spammed all day by ZM. In the meantime I had to defer this functionality to my stupid vivotech camers that have TOD.

Does my eplanation make sense?

Kudo's on your awsome project!

-Chas

You can do something similar using run states. It will not control zones in a camera but you can switch a camera between modect, record, mocord, monitor, and none and use cron to control the times.

Regards,
Corey

There is a forthcoming feature called Zone Sets. This will allow different zone patterns to be loaded at arbitrary times, so you can define one that covers one area and one that does another and swap them. Of course if it's whole cameras you are talking about you can already do that, but this will allow you do effectively switch on and off different regions of one camera's view.

Hi.

Perhaps it is possible to have something to control the cameras recording times from the web UI, rather then via cron/run states? It's quite not convenient to do so now, especially if there are a lot of cameras, and a complex recording on/off schedule required.

i like the idea of these 'zone sets' as it appears i can turn a zone off completely at certain times. So if your on modect, this will stop the cam functioning or if in mocord it will just record at the normal skip and not motion detect during periods of high activity.

SyRenity wrote:Hi.

Perhaps it is possible to have something to control the cameras recording times from the web UI, rather then via cron/run states? It's quite not convenient to do so now, especially if there are a lot of cameras, and a complex recording on/off schedule required.

This is something I will be adding. However it's not that easy to create a general dialog that allows simple creation of "complex recording on/off schedule"s. Can you give me an example of the sort of thing you want to do?

jameswilson wrote:i like the idea of these 'zone sets' as it appears i can turn a zone off completely at certain times. So if your on modect, this will stop the cam functioning or if in mocord it will just record at the normal skip and not motion detect during periods of high activity.

Yes, though the total disabling of alarm generation can be more easily achieved by either using the 'trigger off' command or suspending the monitor.

Zone sets are intended for more fine control, such as when you want to disable motion detection (for example) for one side of a camera's field of view, or to change the zones used for PTZ cams depending on where they are pointing.

or to change the zones used for PTZ cams depending on where they are pointing.

wow i like this

Hi.

This is something I will be adding. However it's not that easy to create a general dialog that allows simple creation of "complex recording on/off schedule"s. Can you give me an example of the sort of thing you want to do?

This purely theoretical, but lets try to define it as following:

Say, a facility is covered by 20 cameras. Some cameras will monitor only during the day, and record during the night, and some will record both during the day and the night. Also, there might be cameras which state will be changed several times during the day - they will record only through the specified hours.

I hope that this clear . Regarding the dialog, I think that each camera can have a dialog associated, which will allow to set it's recording dialog. Something similar to Windows Scheduler, perhaps?

just a thought
digi sprites have 3 settings, day, night and weekend. this only alters framrates though. Plus holidays would screw it up.
Could you have a dialog based 7 days where you had a time then a command . command would be mocord, record etc. if this was done on a per monitor basis, it would give any option. but might be worth limiting it to 15 min segments or else it will be flat out just checking if it should change mode lol.

I think I will probably go the Windows scheduler model to start with as that looks relatively straightforward to duplicate.

We'll see how I get on!

good luck

Hi.

Great! I will be very interested to review this feature, so count me in as a tester.

phil,

is there any news, or progress on this feature?

for instance, as an example - I'd like to 'monitor' the cams 24/7 - however 'MODECT' them M-F 17:30-07:30 & Sat-Sun 24/7

Thanks,

--mp

The easy scheduler will not be in 1.22.1, though possibly in 1.22.2. You can of course achieve what you want currently via zmpkg.pl and cron, though not in such a simple way.