Is it possible to receive a camera's motion events directly?

[timw]

I've just moved to ZoneMinder after several years of using QNAP QVR. (More due to ditching my horrid QNAP box, as opposed to disliking QVR, which was rather good - when it worked).

Anyhow, I'm probably misunderstanding how ZM works, but QVR was able to capture motion events from the camera's on board capabilities and I don't see how to do that from within the ZM web interface.

I have 2 cameras. A ReoLink (RLC-410-5MP) and a Hikvision (DS-2CD2385FWD-I). They both have some basic on-board motion detection, and I'd prefer to harness this than burn CPU cycles on ZM-side frame analysis.

Is it possible to receive these camera events directly in ZM?, or do I need another piece of software to perform external triggering? I've read a bit about this, but I'm somewhat out of my depth on the topic.

I believe the Reolink is ONVIF compliant, but the Hikvision isn't (or perhaps it is partially). Ether way, I don't understand how the cameras' event broadcasting works, so I don't really know where to start.

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

[iconnor]

Yes. Best to run the 1.37 dev series. You turn on ONVIF event listener, populate ONVIF url in the monitor settings and it basically just works.

[timw]

Thanks for the reply. I'm running v1.36.33 via your Ubuntu PPA. Any idea when it will available in the stable release?

[iconnor]

Never. Stable release does not get new features.