Question on status of Amazon S3 support

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sypheXsquare
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Question on status of Amazon S3 support

Post by sypheXsquare »

I apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to post, but I wanted to inquire about the current status of ZoneMinder and Amazon S3. I guess this would be a simple non-issue if you can dump a data directory to the cloud, but would probably be useful to someone technically inclined.
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Re: Question on status of Amazon S3 support

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I use it via s3fs. The lag is a problem.

So what I do is record locally and use a background filter to copy events to s3 storage.
kevrm
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Re: Question on status of Amazon S3 support

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Funny you mention this - I found a node.js based solution which was more work to get it working than to build one.. so I just built this:

https://github.com/CampsiteHelper/ZoneMinderS3

It uploads alarm image frames to s3 in short order. Allows me to do local full recording (MORECORD) and send relevant frame up for safekeeping.
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Re: Question on status of Amazon S3 support

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https://github.com/CampsiteHelper/ZoneMinderS3/

This looks pretty good,

Is it easy to get working?

Does it allow upload of all footage or just alarmed images? is there a way to choose a different email address for different cameras?

Many thanks
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Re: Question on status of Amazon S3 support

Post by kevrm »

Zmjm15,

Its pretty easy to get working assuming you know how to setup an S3 bucket and permissions on AWS.

It only uploads alarm'd images.

I strongly doubt most most folks have upstream bandwidth to support uploading all images so I didn't build that in.
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Re: Question on status of Amazon S3 support

Post by kevrm »

Been testing and improving, its working pretty well now


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Re: Question on status of Amazon S3 support

Post by Zmjm15 »

Thanks Kevrm,

I want to set up a Raspberry pi with the camera module on it to put into my car, and then be able to upload alarmed images via 3g/4g, do you know if that is do-able?
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