How do I extend motion detection alarm duration

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JanCeuleers
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How do I extend motion detection alarm duration

Post by JanCeuleers »

New Zoneminder user.

I have one camera and am using motion detection. This works. But it seems that the action I am capturing is a bit too stop&start in nature, in that the events are each only a few seconds long and in many cases the next event begins very shortly after the end of the previous event.

So the "real-world" event I'm observing is being cut into multiple short Zoneminder events; I would like to coalesce them.

So I was wondering whether it is possible for motion detection alarms to always be extended by, say, 10 seconds.

Thank you.
JRoque
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Re: How do I extend motion detection alarm duration

Post by JRoque »

Hi. Check your monitor buffer tab. More specifically, the pre and post buffers determine how much is recorded before the event (for context) and after the event. See here for reference: http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/sta ... nitor.html

Regards,
JR
JanCeuleers
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Re: How do I extend motion detection alarm duration

Post by JanCeuleers »

Ta very much!
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