Difference between revisions of "Talk:ZoneMinder CCTV Camera Monitoring Software"

Revision as of 13:38, 12 April 2008

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

• http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Instant_Notification

mplayer /usr/share/zoneminder/www/sounds/redalert.wav