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Hi there,

Just started with ZM and learning the ropes. So far I like what I'm seeing. I'm wondering if anyone could help me out. I realize I can use an external trigger to start recording but what I was hoping for was an external trigger that would simply change the monitor function say from simply a view monitor or none to motion detection.

My situation is that I want to record only motion detected events when a vehicle is moving within a certain speed range. I suppose I could just write a script that stopped and started the ZM service according to vehicle speed but I was thinking this may create too much of a delay.

Cheers

You can use run states to make monitor configurations and change using zmpkg.pl
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... or_week.3F

willemb wrote:Hi there,

Just started with ZM and learning the ropes. So far I like what I'm seeing. I'm wondering if anyone could help me out. I realize I can use an external trigger to start recording but what I was hoping for was an external trigger that would simply change the monitor function say from simply a view monitor or none to motion detection.

My situation is that I want to record only motion detected events when a vehicle is moving within a certain speed range. I suppose I could just write a script that stopped and started the ZM service according to vehicle speed but I was thinking this may create too much of a delay.

Cheers

I realize this is an very old post. Sorry for that, Did you find a way around your problem?
Thank you

ZoneMinder 1.29 and above now have APIs - you can do this via APIs and no longer need run states.
http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html