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

[Jay Ashworth]

----- 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
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