Why is zmc always running?

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MartinGoodwell
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Why is zmc always running?

Post by MartinGoodwell »

Hi,

if I have a camera configured as "NoDect" or "Monitor", why is zmc still running?
Wouldn't it be sufficient to only run zmc in case a live-stream or recording is started?

The reason I'm asking is that I have both, a low-resolution and a high-resolution (4k) camera connected.
The low-resolution cam does the motion detection (zma and zmc using about 25% of CPU).
In case of an alarm I want to record using the 4k camera (using NoDect)
But even though the 4k cam is neither streaming nor recording, zmc alone is using about 50 % CPU usage (no zma running here).

The server is intended to have as low power consumption as possible, and that CPU usage requires my CPU to run at full speed instead of half speed, which causes the cooler to run full-speed and increases power consumption about 30%

To sum up: why is zmc always running, and is there some setting to have that only running on-demand?

Thanks!
Martin
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