Talk:ZoneMinder CCTV Camera Monitoring Software
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alarm thru sound card or bulid in speaker on server
ZM can play an alarm sound but only through the web interface and only when monitoring a camera. However it should be a fairly trivial task write a script maybe by adapting one of the ZM scripts which checks the shared memory status or event count and making that do something, or but just calling zmu to check the status.
run mplayer to play sound on alarm
Location of sound files
cd /usr/share/zoneminder/www/sounds
zmtrack.pl
perl zmtrack.pl -m 9 zmtrack.pl -m id_camera
error
perl -T /usr/bin/zmtrack.pl -m 9 Tracker daemon 9 (experimental) starting at 08/04/12 03:24:59 Monitor '9' is not controllable
record when there is motion to trigger an alarm event.
detect alarm event.
filters.
Filtering Events
The other columns on the main console window contain various event totals for your monitors over the last hour, day, week and month as well as a grand total and a total for events that you may have archived for safekeeping.
Instant Notification
