Alarm Reference Image Blend....schedule?

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edge
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Alarm Reference Image Blend....schedule?

Post by edge »

sorry about a nube question,

Running zm v1.32.3 on Ubuntu with a couple of cameras. One of them is a foscam FL9902p outdoor cam with IR leds. Night vision does work pretty well on it, but motion detection consistency is a bit difficult.

During the day, I want it touchy so it picks up people from a distance, so I've been playing with Alarm Ref Blend Percentage, among other things. Trouble is at night, the IR kicks on, color goes to BW. Now bugs are attracted to the IR lights and I'm getting non-stop alarms. So I see this is stored in:

mysql> SELECT AlarmRefBlendPerc FROM Monitors WHERE ID = '1';
+-------------------+
| AlarmRefBlendPerc |
+-------------------+
| 3 |
+-------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

OK then. Anyone try to make a more elegant solution to change that value to 6 with a script on a cron job (maybe some other light sensor input) and restarting the zoneminder service? I'm guessing it won't be picked up without a service restart. Perhaps just kill the /usr/bin/zmc by process ID, and let the zoneminder service respawn the cam and /usr/bin/zma, is more...."elegant"?

Any Ideas would help.
currand60
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Re: Alarm Reference Image Blend....schedule?

Post by currand60 »

I'm having this exact problem. Any chance you found a solution?
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