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I'm running v1.28.1 on an Ubuntu server and recently enabled OPT_TRIGGERS so that zmtrigger.pl would run and I could trigger monitoring via TCP. It was working fine until the server was shut down (sudo init 0) and powered back on. At that point, zmtrigger.pl was running and accepting connections, bu...

Don't really need to be fancy, just want to be helpful, so here's the code for a normally open contact wired between GPIO11 and GND that triggers recording on monitor 4 while closed: #!/usr/bin/env python import RPi.GPIO as GPIO import signal import socket import time #Define GPIO pin here: thiscont...

I just spent the last two days writing a pretty simple Python program to monitor door contacts connected to a Raspberry Pi and trigger recording whenever a door is open. I went through several iterations (working with IRQs, forking, etc) before landing with what I have (individually named programs t...