Sending email on events

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agr8lemon
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Sending email on events

Post by agr8lemon »

Hello,

I have everything setup and working on ZoneMinder 1.36.36 except for sending email on events.

If I go to Filters and put the following selections in, ZM will email me, but it won't email me automatically when the events happen:

ID Equal to any of my monitor IDs)
AND
Alarm Frames Greater than 5

Select Email details of all matches and then Execute. I get emailed the results.
I'm not sure why I'm not getting them in real time as they happen though.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
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burger
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Re: Sending email on events

Post by burger »

From https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Filters
Try adding the end date/time greater than or equal to -1 minute AND
If you don't have a date/time parameter in there, it might try to email details of all events. Or it used to, and I forget, but it's possible there was a check put in place to stop that from occurring because people were flooding their inbox with events by accident.

One other thing you should know, is that there is a setting in the database, that for each event, it will only email once.

See also:
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Email
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ffplay rtsp://<user>:<pass>@<ipaddress>:554/path (gui)
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