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

[David Smoot]

If you are bored, would you mind trying the zmtrigger.pl plugin?  You
should be able to start it up and then trigger an alarm event with a telnet
connection to port 6802.  Even if you don't trigger it, I'm just curious if
the zmtrigger.pl process dies for you in 10 minutes or less like it does
for me. The zmtrigger plug in works for its intended task, it just crashes
a lot.  I have found others who faced the same symptoms and their cure was
to switch to mapped memory.  My solution might be as simple as recompiling
ZoneMinder for mapped rather than shared.


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Jon Heizer <jheizer at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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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