When is a person not a person?
Object detection – the ability to identify specific objects in a picture – has made all the difference to my Zoneminder camera monitoring…
Sending CCTV to the cloud
I finally got round to adding another critical element to my Zoneminder CCTV system…
Managing Zoneminder notifications with Home Assistant
The last few posts have described how I got Zoneminder working with object detection and configured so that notifications are managed by Home Assistant…
Zoneminder and Home Assistant
I’ve got the excellent zmEventNotification configured but I’m not using it to send notifications directly. Here’s why…
Zoneminder object detection
It’s hard to eliminate false positives in motion detecting security cameras without also missing genuine events. Some expensive security cameras offer a solution – object detection…
Zoneminder setup
Following on from my last post, I’m going to talk about how I’ve linked Zoneminder and Home Assistant with the assistance of zmEventNotification. This week I’ll start with getting Zoneminder configured.,,
Zoneminder – a love/hate relationship
I have something of a love/hate relationship with Zoneminder. On the plus side, it’s probably the most comprehensive and full featured open source CCTV system for Linux…
Too many options
I’ve written previously that I think there are too many programming languages. I’ll expand that. There’s too much technology…
A quick intro to Zoneminder
Following on from the last post, I’m going to talk about how Zoneminder works and why it struggles a bit with high resolution modern security cameras…
Security Cameras
I talked about the Arlo security camera system in my last post, and so far I think it’s a good system for what it does…