Re: [mh] zmxap and misterhouse states

[Seann <nom...@ts...>]

Garry Doucette wrote:
> Hi Seann
>
> I can't even be considered a Misterhouse novice but I did go through setting
> up Zoneminder with MH and four cameras a couple years ago. Gregg Limming is
> the man for this stuff. Hopefully he'll chime in.
>
> Do you have your zmxap.pl up and running sending xap messages over the
> network? That's the first big step. Once you have that and you activate
> xAP_command.pl and xAP_send.pl in common code section you should be closer
> still.
>   
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>
> You could then use the MH voice command in other code to toggle your
> Zoneminder states.
>
> Regards,
>
> Garry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seann [mailto:nom...@ts...] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:16 AM
> To: The main list for the MisterHouse home automation program
> Subject: [mh] zmxap and misterhouse states
>
> All,
>
> I am tinkering with the Zoneminder to Misterhouse integration a little bit
> more in depth now. I am looking for information to control the Zoneminder
> state from Misterhouse.
>
> My basic idea is if I toggle Security modes, from off to armed, that it
> toggles the matching modes I have set up in ZoneMinder.
>
> This way I can tie in the zone minder specific states and configurations
> with misterhouse so that the camera system reflects what the home automation
> controller is doing.
>
> Digging through the xAP items, both in Misterhouse and zmxap, I see some
> code that looks like it might do what I need it to, but I haven't been able
> to figure out how to toggle it.
>
> That is the bscCmdCallback command which references the zmpkg.pl script and
> allows run states to be set.
>
> Is there something in the xAP ZM code in Misterhouse that ties into that,
> which I appear to be missing in reading the code?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Seann
>
>
>   

I am using the additional states that Zone Minder supports, which can be 
triggered VIA cron on the ZoneMinder server.

I have 4 monitors defined, which are all in a Monitor state.

The two states, armed and standby, toggle these camera's to Modetect and 
back to monitor.

With Misterhouse I want to be able to use the Security states to toggle 
the camera record states.

Setting Misterhouse to Security = armed should send a message, VIA xAP 
to ZoneMinder, to change the state to Armed.

The reverse should happen when Security is set to disarmed.

I see the ability to toggle Zoneminders State VIA zmxap, with comments 
warning it isn't fully supported, so I am looking into if the hooks work 
on that, and maybe get a little help writing in the hooks if they aren't 
there.


Regards,
Seann