Stopping alarms when PTZ camera is moving

[piflipper]

Hi All,

I've managed to get an unbadged PTZ camera working great in zoneminder and run a script, via cron, that pans the camera every half hour at night to a new location. If I run the commands from the CLI everything works as I'd hope, but when run via the script I still get alarms.

The first command to disable the camera is :
sudo zmu -m 4 -D -U "User" -P "PASSWORD"

2nd command moves the camera:
sudo zmcontrol.pl --id=4 --command=presetGoto --preset=002 "could be 001, 002 etc"

3rd command re-enables the camera:
sudo zmu -m 4 -E -U "User" -P "PASSWORD"

I have also tried to achieve the same by switching profiles, then moving then switching back still get alarms.

Can anyone help please?

[BiloxiGeek]

I've been using get_zones.pl script I found here and running:

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get_zones.pl -s inactive -z <zone_name>

Get a list of zones:

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get_zones.pl -r

[piflipper]

Hi BiloxiGeek,

Do you have a link to that script, I can't find it anywhere on my setup?

Thanks

[piflipper]

SOLVED
Answering my own question here. By putting a sleep 10 command before re-enabling the camera stops the alarms happening. Gives time for the movement to complete and settle (focus etc) before monitoring resumes.

Cheers

[BiloxiGeek]

Hi BiloxiGeek,

Do you have a link to that script, I can't find it anywhere on my setup?

Thanks

Script is in this thread if you want to test it out, it doesn't seem to be part of ZM natively.

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