#zoneminder

if anyone is wondering, yesterdays misadventures in trying to figure out how best to get a script to trigger upon alarm has been resolved pretty well

I now have a script that plays an audio alert, opens an image viewer of alarm frames every 3 seconds, and opens a vlc streaming a direct feed from the camera

I cannot possibly miss any more alerts now ;)

well, unless I'm AFK of course

but I'll notice when I get back in that case, instead of just completely missing the event as in the past

http://hastebin.com/ozejuhihos.py was the end result

one day of zoneminder footage consumes 33gb of diskspace

I'm running 1.26.5, do the later versions improve on this in some way?

like not storing footage as individual jpegs or something

x264 videos or something along those lines ought to provide massive savings

there is the video storage branch which apparently is coming along nicely... feature-h264-video etc.

zamba: why are they not working?

ic0n: we've been over this before.. actually you and i.. motion detection isn't working

i can jump in front of the camera and nothing triggers

ah..

it's stupid

I've certainly seen that here as well.

yeah.. and that to me means that zm isn't a mature solution.. i've had a rant about that here earlier as well

i compare zm to bestpractical's request tracker

well, you get what you pay for I guess.

lots of perl "magic", rubbish UI and then something that works-ish

i don't mean to sound disrespectful, but i feel this is the truth

zoneminder needs someone to take the product into web 2.0 and nodejs and javascript..

then it would be a killer product and something that my company actually would be willing to pay good money for

it has the potential, but leaves us lacking

eh.. wanting

well a new node.js UI won't help with your motion detection problems.

people are working on a better ui.

that's true

but if the parameters for motion detection was sensible and possible to decipher for a human, then i guess THAT would help

agreed. I think some sort of smart wized where it monitors the video and you go walk in front of it and it figures out what the parameters should be would be great.

yeah

and the "log"-thing

that's a complete and utter waste

I agree.

it barfs warning, alerts and i don't know what every second

warnings*

and it slows the UI to a crawl.

yeah

same with alerts.. let's say we want alerts when motion detection is triggered for a zone.. then you have to create filters and i don't know what

someone needs to look at zm with completely new eyes

there are lots of new eyes. What there is not is money and time.

as i said.. my company would probably pay

and i believe lots of companies would

for a cheaper CCTV solution.. but it has to actually work

right now my boss would laugh if i asked him to contribute to zm

Sure they would,.... once the features are already developed... and you would be amazed at how they actually do not want to pay.

but we have already contributed to other FOSS projects

because it looks awful, it's a nightmare to configure (50+ checkboxes that means nothing to us) and it just doesn't work :)

unfortunately complaining is easy. Developing is somewhat harder.

as i said.. i/we can contribute

and this is actually a contribution

Well thank you for your contribution. I'm going to go away for a while now and try to get something done.

we'd be more than willing to pay for something that works :)

there are already commercial programs out there - I would much rather you chose one of them than try to subvert ZM into another one of them...