[mythtv-users] ZoneMinder plug in incompatible with network triggers

[Jon Heizer]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:51 PM, David Smoot <davidsmoot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm, thanks to Jay for the free legwork and informed perspective and
> thanks to Paul for pointing out I was looking at the wrong information.  I
> was going by the MythZoneMinder page in the wiki (
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythZoneMinder) that states the shared is
> still required.
>
> I posted a similar inquiry in the ZoneMinder forums at
> http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=20861 but have
> gotten no reply.  I will do a bit more research as time allows and then try
> to capture some updates to the wiki page.
>
> Thanks to both of you.
> David
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Jay Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
>>
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > From: "David Smoot" <davidsmoot at gmail.com>
>> >
>> > > So this weekend I installed Zoneminder on my Mythbuntu box. I wanted
>> > > to use ZoneMinder to do two things: Integrate with MythTv to allow
>> > > camera views and management from the TV interface and to use the
>> > > "zmtrigger.pl" package to allow my home automation system to trigger
>> > > recordings from my security cameras via a network socket interface.
>> > >
>> > > Unfortunately, it appears these two goals are mutually exclusive.
>>
>> > I am inclined, David, as someone with some experience on both sides of
>> > the fence, to say that the best course might be to track down
>> zmtrigger's
>> > author, and try to squash the bug, if you have reason to think that it
>> > is the program that you need -- it's been 8 or 9 years, but I remember
>> > the ZM dev community as being pretty tolerant and helpful.
>> >
>> > Additionally, there's more leverage there, for users in both camps.
>> >
>> > Is that not code that cordel wrote?
>>
>> It is core code, and I find from some quick research that there's been
>> a great lull in development over there that apparently just missed a
>> fork this hour; the core developer was tracked down and turns out he's
>> wrapping up a 2.0 release for Very Soon Now.  More details likely
>> to follow in the next.. day or 3?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
>> --
>>
>
Thanks this discussion made me try to install the Myth plugin last night.
I just had not got around to it.  I had everything up and running on Ubuntu
12.04 in minutes.  I also did not realize that the out of box versions
worked now.

Jon
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