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My router is sometimes crashing and the local network goes down. It seems that the ONVIF connections are not reestablished when the network is brought up again. ONVIF Device Manager program is able to open the event service and shows motions happening while zoneminder does not start any NewEvent's. ...

You mean the player in the web browser? I mean the player playing .mp4 files natively on the computer. zm_videostore.cpp only seems to contain writing of frames. What is the file for when zoneminder renames/moves the temporary "NewEvent" video file to its final name, when the event has end...

In the web video player the navbar has red marks for when an alert was active. This feature is lost on passthrough video files. Native video players such as mpv and vlc have support for chapters which could be utilized for this purpose. Implementation idea ffmpeg supports a simple metadata file for ...

ffmpeg supports a metadata file for creating chapters, which then can be inserted in to a video: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#Metadata-1 Where in the source code does zm write the passthrough file, or rather, when is the file closed? A loop through all the motion alerts, writing of the met...

I solely use ONVIF motion events so zones are not relevant, or could they still be used somehow?
I'd prefer if linked alarms were flagged and looked for to not cause any circular alarms.

Linked Monitors does not allow circular dependencies, which could be useful. If two monitors are linked together, both ways, ZM should allow that if one of them detects motion, the other will get alarmed and vice-versa. Unrelated question: Why does zm poll onvif every ten seconds and not more freque...