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This is a newbie question that i am looking for an answer to before I try to use ZM. I am wanting to use around 12 network cameras when all is said and done. I want to be able to view the motion movies daily. From what I can tell, ZM seems to be able to do this well. My question is this. Can ZM be set to upload an image from each of the cameras to an ftp server every 2 minutes or so? I know that it can do it when motion is detected, but i want to do it on a schedule. I searched around but I couldn't find the answer I was looking for.

Thanks for the help.

There are no settings to do this in ZM at present. It would be relatively easy to script however I think, depending on whether you wanted to capture continuously on the ZM machine or not.

Perhaps you can give me a few more details about what you are trying to achieve.

Phil,

I basically just want to capture an image off each camera every two minutes then upload these images to my web site using ftp.

Isn't this sort of defeating the purpose? ZM has a web interface after all

One thing you could do is just run a script from your system's crontab that uploads whatever you choose from /home/zm/images...

Hi

I dont know what brand of netcams you have, but some Axis cameras, the 2100 for sure, can ftp on their own. This model does handle pushing images into ZM and moving an image via ftp at the same time without problems, this way perhaps, you could keep recordings of the camera(s) and security of your ZM machine on one side, while having random X minute images of it on a website on some other place.

Of course in the case of using capture cards (or non supporting netcams) running a script would be best

Regards!