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I'm turning this into a mini-blog of sorts! Anyway, I just realized this camera also supports a secondary low resolution "sub stream". So, in Zoneminder, I set up a second monitor to do a constant record on this substream. Defaults for the substream are 352x240, 30 FPS. After ZM's conversion to JPEG ...

Here's a slightly updated version of the script above. Tweaks:

• --event-dir argument can be passed multiple times
• --event-dir argument(s) is(are) interpreted as shell glob pattern(s)
• --help output has been updated to indicate defaults (e.g. 50% scaling)

Enjoy!

Here's yet another variation on the same theme, this time in Python. This script works by taking in a top-level directory to search for JPG files; those files will be concatenated into a video file using ffmpeg. Additionally, if requested, each JPG can be run through the ImageMagick program "convert ...

Update: since the hardware I previously mentioned (X2 3600 / 2GB RAM) clearly couldn't handle two cameras with the settings I'm currently using (1280x720 / 15FPS), I went ahead and upgraded. Now I'm running a quad-core i5-6500 and 8GB RAM. Overkill for this application, but very high value based on ...

Just to give a little more info on this setup: System is running CentOS 7.3. Running ZM 1.30.0, installed from zmrepo. I re-purposed an old PC that I'd been meaning to give away. AMD Athlon X2 3600+, 2 GB RAM. (This is an oldish CPU, before AMD started integrating video into their CPUs; DDR2 memory ...

...the user is expected to know something about network protocols. [...] As always, Google is your friend If you could kindly point me to a link or two that discusses these protocols and and how they are used in Zoneminder , I would appreciate it. There is of course no shortage of pages discussing ...

I'm using ZM v1.30.0 on CentOS 7.3 installed via zmrepo. So far so good, just wanted a little clarification on something... When adding a monitor, under the "Source" tab, the second field is "Remote Method". (This field is below "Source" and above "Options".) The Remote Method options are RTP ...

Hikvision seems to be pretty popular with Zoneminder. Seems like there are lots of people using these cameras with success. I haven't seen my specific model - DS-2CD2132F-I - mentioned in ZM context. However, it seems to more or less work right out of the box. I first referenced the Zoneminder Wiki ...

I recently moved into a house which came with four analog cameras (not sure of the make/model). The cameras are currently connected to a Speco DVR4RS. It works, but it seems kinda klunky. Plus, I already have a Linux server and a decent amount of Linux experience. Zoneminder looks like it might be ...