#zoneminder

digdilem, thanks for the response so what are zoneminder settings to connect a mobile phone

I have an android phone

I have a panasonic camcorder my ultimate goal would be to have this cctv into zoneminder but hasn't been easy to figure out my camera has a wifi connection to my router

i can connect to the camera p2p connection with android and panasonic video app

i have tried everything possible to connect to the camcorder directly with zoneminder and no luck I even opened a paid support ticket with panasonic and am getting zero help

pylearner, it depends on the app - but most will have those settings on there. I *think* i used this one, which had a guide for what settings to use on zoneminder built-in; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=c...

pylearner, camcorders aren't common things to plug into cctv, i'm not sure if any have web servers that would mimic an IP camera so it can get a jpg, mjpeg or mpeg feed

i'm thinking i should go take a run (literally) across my camera's zones to see what the minimum number of frames i should alert on...

xnxs, depends on the fps set. lower fps = lower frames to trigger

this comes under "fine tuning" and there's no hard and fast answer tho

(distance from subject and resolution also important)

exactly

morning

hey asker

hiya ic0n_

i activated dns forwarder on my router

i can now call cams by their host

useless but sexy

sexy is important

ic0n_ - why don't you start using the github release apis for your package? /release returns all types of releases and you can pick either the latest pre-release or release

because I build packages for master branch... or maybe my own dev branch, etc.

but zmupdate.pl and any other scripts should definitely use the api.

gotcha

there are two definitive places that tell the build system what the version is. CMakeLists.txt and version.

I have a patch to make CMakeLists pull from version.

I believe version is the place to set the version.

version.txt?

Others seem to disagree or not care or something.

it doesn't have a .txt on it.

why is that file needed though when there are apis? I'm missing something

because I might be working on something locally that github doesn't know about...

and you just said that earlier didn't you. True.

I don't anyone knew you were using the version file that way. It certainly was not intended to be used that way

let me look at other Zoneminder issues I can troll

I always thought that's what that file was for. It is even documented in the make a release wiki page.

there is a make a release wiki page?

It does not make sense to hit a file on master branch to find out what the latest release is.

master is NOT a release

I agree.

Long term we should find a better way

I'd like to get rid of version, but I don't know how much work that will make for you

yeah, so I'm trying to figure out where we do that. Seems like Kyle is the only one who can change it.. which is also a problem since he is mia.

I kinda like having one definitive easy to parse spot for the version.

I can make cmake pull from it too, so we no longer have to change CMakeLists.txt

We could save the version number in an empty, dead-end page on the wiki. We could set permissions on it so only certain people can manually change it.

and just manually update it when we do a release? Works for me.

but I really think we need it in the code.

yes

WE can do both

What we found is the version that update.zoneminder.com reports should not always be in sync with what is on github

By making the version stored on wiki manual, we can set it to what we want, whenever we want, regardless of what we are doing in our github repo

yeah, I agree with that.

Now all we need to do is get rexd666 to set that up for us. I still can't login to the wiki, but I assume that is on purpose for the time being.

And get kyle to make update.zoneminder.com point to that page on the wiki

zmupdate uses that file my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET=>'https://update.zoneminder.com/vers...; );

who else?

only icon's scripts?

No, ic0n scripts look at the file "version" on our github site

oh

damn

My proposal separates the two use cases

I never knew there were two (and why)

I see - the local version is used to label the release package being built, the remote version.txt is used by zmupdate to check for updates

yep

I saved icon from answering the third time

I must be really smart

ps, nice to have you around knnniggett

I'll send you the bill. :-)

how's your office situation?

They were going to put up new ceiling tiles yesterday morning without replacing the wet drywall and insulation above it.

so badly then.

I pointed out the potential for mold and my reluctance to move back in. Today a mold inspection company is supposed to inspect it. I can already see mold on the ceiling, which was probably there already

Fortunately, I got general agreement from the top that we should check for mold

so looks like a lot more happened when you were in Italy and icon breaking perl was the least of it :-D

my perl brakage was due to another PR not being merged. Not my fault at all. :)

it's all rexd666's fault. (icon points fingers everwhere else)

no fun working on stuff that doesn't break gloriously

Well, yes and no. Our IS department converted us over to virtual desktops so that makes it easy to work from anywhere.... Unfortunately, the Linux environment I have set up at work is on an entirely different vlan so maintaining access to that during the day will require some work.

Overall, I'm not really upset because this allows me to work from home instead of driving 26 miles through rush hour traffic to set at a desk all day

android users are a paranoid lot. Zoneminder+android users are even more so.

So according to the wiki, updating updates.zoneminder.com/version.txt is manually done on the vps. So the long and short is that we access to that vps

vps?

see the github wiki on doing a release..

yeah, where is that?

githuub -> zoneminder -> wiki -> pages -> How to make a release

found it

That was written before we migrated to readthedocs. I'm not sure this page should still exist.

oh, that is our own notes, reminding us what to do. sorry, I didn't get that initially

haa - lots of interesting pages there

definitely needs updating

icon is the only certified consultant!

proud of ya!