Change Camera function from backend

ynn · Post by **ynn** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:49 pm

Is there anyway we can check and then change the camera function from the back end via shell or perl? let say there are 8 cameras and they are all "Mocord" and I want to change to camera 1 - 4 to "Modect" and 5-8 to "Monitor"?
Thanks.

Post by **zoneminder** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:53 pm

The monitor states will always be accessible in the DB. This you can get easily from perl, or slightly less easily via shell.

You can use run states to control your monitors behaviour. This is easy to do from both perl and shell.

ynn · Post by **ynn** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:15 am

Thanks Phil, do you have any perl script DB example on how to get each monitor function status or changing it?
thanks.

Post by **zoneminder** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:43 pm

Not to hand. I will see if I can find time to knock something up. There are several examples int he zm*.pl scripts though. You will just need to grep a bit to find them.

ynn · Post by **ynn** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:34 am

Thank so much Phil, I will monitor this forums everyday, in the mean time i will take a loox at zm*.pl.

thank you again.