Any thought on using the 'motion' engine for detection?

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mrbill
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Any thought on using the 'motion' engine for detection?

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The software has been around for a long long time - but it is totally driven from a config file - no GUI like ZM has.

http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome

It has some very very powerful and nifty features which help with false positives though. IN particular the despeckle which you can read a bit about here:

http://emit.demon.co.uk/motion/

Pretty clever and very effective!

Perhaps ZM could use motion as an engine in the future, or perhaps there could be a plugin type scenario where you could choose which motion detection engine to use.

Just a thought - i'm fairly happy with ZM as it is, but there is always room for improvement :mrgreen:
SteveGilvarry
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Re: Any thought on using the 'motion' engine for detection?

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Maybe I read that too quick but it started talking about blobs so doesn't sound that different to how zm works.
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mrbill
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Re: Any thought on using the 'motion' engine for detection?

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Sure, just a bit more configurable and fine tuneable in motion.

Is there a roadmap for the next major version of zm?
SteveGilvarry
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Re: Any thought on using the 'motion' engine for detection?

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More like a wish list of things we would like to do, but those of us that develop all have day jobs so time is always the issue.

I will talk to the guys about putting something together and publishing, might not have timelines but maybe it will prompt some people to start helping with development.
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Re: Any thought on using the 'motion' engine for detection?

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SteveGilvarry wrote: Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:43 pmI will talk to the guys about putting something together and publishing, might not have timelines but maybe it will prompt some people to start helping with development.
I would like that. I dont mind helping, if I am able...
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