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Hi. In your opinion is it possible to configure zoneminder to use the ipcam built-in motion detection feature?

Using the ipcam built-in motion detection feature instead of the zoneminder one will reduce the CPU usage of the zoneminder server.

Has someone tested a solution like this?
How can I configure zoneminder to do that?

Thanks in advance
Vector

In order for zm to ever be able to use the built in feature in the cameras, the cameras would have to be able to signal zm (or any other software) that infact there is an alarm. To my knowledge, no cameras support such a feature to date. If the cameras could support it then we could support such a feature and most likely would (should be able to very easly using zmtriger) as this would save server resources.

Short answer is no.

Regards,
Corey

How about the camera being able to email or ftp after the motion detected alarm?

Those "triggers" are already built in many of todays IP cameras...

Perhaps then ZM could receive such email or ftp trigger and add such event to the HD and database...

Just thinking out loud here

Regards!

This is relatively easy to do, but you would have to write a siimple glue script to detect the ftp connection or mail. Also this is likely to be 'after the event' so you need ZM to buffer up a lot of images so the interesting stuff hadn't gone by the time ZM started recording.

I have a couple of IP cams with alarm outputs. These would make more sense and be more immediate but you would probably need a little PIC or something to convert a signal on these to basic character input on the ZM box serial port for example.