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  posted by joaduo 893 days ago

• ZoneMinder 1.22.1 Released

  ZoneMinder version 1.22.1 has now been fully released. This release contains some requested new features as well as quite a few fixes to issues found in 1.22.0. The primary new features in this release revolve around the ability to link monitors so that one monitor can trigger an alarm in another. Consequently events now may have causes other than motion and external triggers and all causes for an event are now recorded in the cause and notes fields of the event record in the database and can be filtered on. Full details of the changes are described in the change log and the documentation.

  posted by pcoombes 1293 days ago

• File released: /zoneminder/1.22.0/ZoneMinder-1.22.0.tar.gz

  posted 1293 days ago

• File released: /zoneminder/1.22.1/ZoneMinder-1.22.1.tar.gz

  posted 1293 days ago

• zoneminder 1.22.1 file released: ZoneMinder-1.22.1.tar.gz

  o FEATURE Monitors can now be linked so activity on one, triggers events on another. This allows area wide surveillance by enabling one key monitor to control several others, though they can still be configured to detect motion themselves. o FEATURE Events can now have more than one cause. Previously if an event was triggered by motion, other stimuli would be ignored. Now if an event is caused by both motion and a linked monitor (perhaps covering the same field of view), this is indicated in the cause field of the event. Note that the cause of event is established on the first alarmed frame, so if motion is detected and then one frame later an trigger is detected, only the motion will be recorded as the cause as the monitor will be in an alarmed state by the time the second cause arrives. o FEATURE The event Notes/Description field is now more useful. If an event is triggered by motion, this field contains a record or which zone detected the motion. If an event was triggered by a linked monitor then the monitor in question is recorded and so on. This allows filtering on more specific indicators. o FEATURE All temporary files such as thumbnail images, now go in the images directory rather than in the specific event directory. They are then periodically removed by zmaudit when over a certain age. This means that if you are archiving off event directories you will not end up copying a load of thumbnails and smaller images of various sizes. The treatment of thumbnails etc has also been rationalised in general. o FEATURE The groups view has been further modified to make group modification use the same paradigm as the rest of the web interface. This has also simplified it somewhat. o FEATURE All views where you need to select a list of monitor ids now give you the choice of using a selector that lists the monitor names and not just their ids. o FEATURE The zmdc.pl script that controls the ZoneMinder daemons has been modified to make it clearer in the logs when a process has crashed, exited abnormally (i.e. with a non-zero status) or normally. An abnormal exit is not necessarily a bad thing, whereas a crash always is. o FEATURE The average difference of all alarmed pixels is now available in event statistics. Note that this is the mean of the differences between a pixel and its counterpart in the reference image, but only for pixels where this difference is inside the pixel difference thresholds specified in the zone configuration. In other words it is not the mean difference of all pixels, just those that initially contributed to an alarm. This allows you to determine the effects of modifying the thresholds by seeing what effect that has on the mean difference. o FEATURE The zmfix utility now corrects permission on any active PTZ control devices, .e.g. serial port devices, as well as video devices. o FEATURE The zmpkg.pl control script now has the ability to use sudo to execute commands as the web user and will only fall back to su if this fails. This should allow it to be more compatible across distributions. o FEATURE Deleting events will now ask for a confirmation before proceeding. o FEATURE Black and White settings for Axis cameras have been added to the monitor presets. o FEATURE Settings for Gadspot cameras have been added to the monitor presets. o FEATURE Most dates now use strftime to make them locale aware. This should help avoid some of the problems associated with dates for languages other than English. Ultimately these formats will probably be moved to be configurable but for now they can be found defined in zm_config.php for general formats or zm_html_view_timeline.php for timeline specific ones. o FEATURE The global ZM_NO_MAX_FPS_ON_ALARM option has been replaced by a Maximum Alarm FPS settings for each monitor. This means that you can now choose whether to limit the frame rate when an alarm occurs on a per monitor basis and can configure monitors to have a higher frame rate but not unlimited whereas previously it was the normal frame or unlimited with no facility for more precise configuration. o FEATURE Added facility for executing binaries to dump a backtrace to the logs on receipt of a fatal signal. This should help debugging should any crashes occur. However it does depend on those facilities being available on the host system. If they are not then this feature will be disabled. It can also be disabled via the enable-crashtrace=no option to configure. o FEATURE Configuration of local monitors now includes more drop down selectors to guide users towards sensible values. o FEATURE Some scripts have been modified or added to make creation of rpms or other packages easier. o FIX The monitor creation/modification dialog previously had virtually no validation, allowing creation of monitors with bogus, meaningless or dangerous properties. This has been corrected to impose meaningful and valid settings. o FIX The Zone presets included in 1.22.0 were set to be a little too sensitive. They have been amended to make them have more of a range of sensitivity. o FIX Scripts are able to use a local zm.conf file in the current directory in preference to the installed system one. This is most useful for zmupdate.pl but can apply to all scripts for testing. Previously this local file was used silently which may cause some confusion. A warning is now emitted if the installed zm.conf file is being overridden by a local one. o FIX The zmu tool crashed when querying zones. This has been fixed and more useful output emitted, including the dimensions of the zones. o FIX The message email address was sometimes ignored and the email address used instead. This has been corrected. o FIX The zm_action.php file was a bit broken 1.22.0 particular when creating and deleting monitors. This has been fixed and the file has been tidied up to make it easier to maintain and understand. o FIX Some references were maintained to free mysql query data. This has been fixed to use copies. o FIX Problems with incorrect JPEG quality settings had crept back in so the wrong setting, or even default settings were being used and the appropriate setting was being ignored. o FIX The capture daemon for remote cameras will not exit in a more graceful and controlled manner when it is unable to fetch remote images. o FIX Editing the camera control capabilities was broken in 1.22.0 meaning changes were not being saved. This is now fixed. o FIX There was a missing terminating character in the configuration for the default email and message formats. This resulted in these fields being blank. These configuration options have now been split into subject and body formats for both to make them easier to maintain.. o FIX Saving run states omitted the enabled flag meaning that the saved value was not correct. This has been fixed. o FIX Some configuration was moved to a category which had no tab in the Options window and so became inaccessible except directly via the database. This has been resolved, and the categories restructured slightly to be more appropriate. o FIX Some web forms have been modified to use post rather than get allowing more data to be passed without error for large operations. o FIX A number of minor video generation issues have been fixed. o FIX The zone polygon editing view should now work on all browsers including Internet Explorer. o FIX A number of xHTML syntactical errors have been found and fixed in the xHTML view files. o FIX A problem with the incorrect specification of the preset to return to if auto-tracking motion has been found and fixed. o FIX A crash in zmu when using the -l options has been corrected. o FIX When viewing events from the timeline view, the filter used to select them is now passed meaning that scrolling between events now behaves as expected. o FIX Where necessary %f formats in sprintf have been changed to %F to ensure ffmpeg compatible, and non-locate aware, floating point formats are used. This fix is only effective for php versions 4.3.10 and later. o FIX Fixed an issue where deleting the last page of events generated an empty page. o FIX Fixed a problem where the stills view for Recorded or Mocorded events did not display correctly. o FIX Fixed a problem with loaded filters being unable to be edited to have more or fewer terms. o FIX Fixed the script debugging library to not try and interpret % characters in debug as formatting. o FIX Fixed (hopefully) an issue where md5.h was incorrectly identified by configure as being missing. o LANGUAGE The two existing Italian language files have been merged into one and updated. o LANGUAGE A new Swedish translation has been added.

  posted 1298 days ago

• zoneminder 1.22.0 file released: ZoneMinder-1.22.0.tar.gz

  o FEATURE Zones can now be (virtually) any shape of polygon. This means that triangular, octagonal, duo decahedrons etc are now supported. The only exceptions to this are self-intersecting shapes which will be flagged. This adds a lot more flexibility to the definition of zones. Zones can be drawn semi-interactively. o FEATURE Certain preset zones settings are now supplied to allow quicker configuration of zones. These are intended to be a guide only, and not definitive settings but form a useful starting point. o FEATURE The zmpkg.pl scripts now attempts to determine the supported syntax of the su command so it should work even with distributions like Slackware that dont support the shell option. Previously this required a hand edit. o FEATURE Some common perl functionality has been moved to perl modules which have been included. This also allows other scripts to use the ZoneMinder modules to create additional functionality particularly in the area of triggering. All scripts have been converted to use these modules. o FEATURE A (small currently) number of monitor presets have been added to the monitor configuration view. This allows quicker initial configuration of certain (mostly network) cameras without having to know all the paths. Contributions detailing other cameras will be gratefully accepted. o FEATURE Signal loss on locally attached video sources is now detected. This will create a short Signal Lost event on signal loss, followed by a Signal Reacquired event when it comes back. While the signal is lost no recording will take place in any mode. o FEATURE The zmtrigger.pl script has been completed revamped to support both incoming and outgoing triggers. Certain example triggers and connections have been included in the trigger modules but this is intended to be an example only and to provide a basis for users to customise and add their own functionality. Users will also be able to contribute modules tailored to specific external systems. o FEATURE More configuration has been moved to the zm.conf file. All components now use this file for initial configuration. Scripts may also use a local copy, in the same directory, to allow overrides etc. o FEATURE The zmconfig.pl script is no more! Building now only requires the configure step and then make etc. Database parameters can be supplied to the configure script. o FEATURE The configure script now includes more system compatibility checking including checks for required and optional perl modules. o FEATURE Generation and management of thumbnail images is now improved. Thumbnail images (and any that are not directly created for the event) are now stored in the images directory under the web root, where zmaudit will periodically remove them. o FEATURE All libjpeg output is now trapped and handled as regular format debug. o FEATURE Some jpeg data is cached on first use instead of being regenerated each time. This should speed up jpeg handling to some degree. o FEATURE Event data can be optionally saved to COM fields in the jpeg file header. o FEATURE A system summary command has been added to zmu. o FEATURE Filtering can now be done on the event id field. o FEATURE Filtering can now be done on the event description field. o FEATURE The check all on event lists etc is now a toggle checkbox. o FEATURE In Mocord mode, events can now be forced to close when the event has reached the section length even if an alarm is in progress. Previously this would have resulted in an extended event. o FEATURE The groups view has been overhauled and rationalised. o FEATURE A default event replay rate has been added. o FEATURE Videos can now be created from filters. o FEATURE Added tokens for event cause (%EC%) and description (%ED%) for filter generated emails. The %ED% token was previously used for event length, this has now changed to %EL%. You will need to update any filters that use this token to use the new value. o FEATURE There is now a separate auto-execute checkbox from filters to allow definition of a script but not execution if this is not desired. o FEATURE When filters are loaded, a hint appears to indicate what automatic function options they have been saved with. o FEATURE Improved the behaviour of the automatic PTZ stop feature when using Pelco type PTZ cameras. o FEATURE The configure script now allows an option to compile all debug out from the binaries. o FEATURE The configure script now takes a generic extra libs option to allow specification of any extra libraries that may be required for compilation due to additional ffmpeg options etc. The mp3lame option has been removed. o FEATURE Mime support for streaming has been enhanced to allow easy configuration of additional formats of data streaming. The streaming daemons themselves have also been improved to support the generation of other stream formats. o FEATURE The handling of video viewing via the video view has been improved to allow embedded viewing of videos as well as easy saving locally. o FEATURE The alarm sound that can be configured to play when viewing a monitor with a current alarm has now been improved to not depend on the refreshing of the status which resulted in clipped audio. o FEATURE Script debug now follows the same format as all debug and uses the syslog facility. This means that all important messages go into the /var/log/messages file (or equivalent). This can be modified by redirecting the local1 facility in syslog.conf to go elsewhere, or be ignored, if so desired. o FEATURE A new raw streaming format has been added for live monitor streams. This produces a low cpu impact raw rgb feed. o FEATURE A zm.pid file is now placed in /var/run/zm when ZoneMinder is running, and removed when stopped. This can be used by other elements to check the status of ZoneMinder. The pid in the file is that of the master zmdc.pl server instance. o FEATURE The continuous/triggered settings for monitors have now been removed. They have been replaced by an Enabled flag that indicates whether a monitor is actually doing the task assigned to it. This can be used by scripts to disable or enable monitors depending on external triggers without having to change the Function or start and stop daemons. The state of this flag is now saved in run states to allow ZoneMinder to be started with some monitors initially disabled. o FEATURE Restructured zmfilter.pl to better handle filters and ensure that auto functions are performed in a logical sequence (e.g. not deleted before being archived). o FEATURE Added link to Zones configuration to the live watch view. o FEATURE The event link in the xHTML interface now goes somewhere useful. o FEATURE Reformatted a number of xHTML views to use tables for better layout. o FEATURE The default reference image blend percentage has been changed to 7% to persist events slightly longer. o FEATURE The monitor configuration view has been re-organised slightly and some fields have moved between tabs. o FEATURE When motion is detected the centre of the region of motion is written to shared memory, where is can be used for tracking. This can now optionally be a simple median of the motion extents or (in blob mode) a weighted centre for better location of irregularly shaped events. o FEATURE Added event progress and navigation bar to event view (currently not on IE). This allows partial replay of events and an indication of how far through the event it is. This is off by default for low bandwidth settings as the image replay tends not to be able to keep up. o FEATURE Added --with-libarch to configure for 64 bit builds. This allows an alternative library path to be specified for 64 bit versions of system libraries. o FEATURE Made zmaudit optional and with a configurable delay. Systems with large numbers of events may wish to turn zmaudit off and run manually at off peak hours or increase the execution interval. o FEATURE All logging now done via Debug.pm. This helps bring script logging more into line with that in the binaries. The process is not yet complete however. o FEATURE Language selection now a dropdown showing available languages. o FEATURE The zmcontrol-kx-hcm10.pl script has been renamed to the more generic zmcontrol-panasonic-ip.pl script as it should work with all Panasonic IP cameras. o FEATURE Added PTZ control script for Neu-Fusion NCS370 IP cameras. o FIX The zms script has been corrected to accept any authentication method regardless of what has been configured to be used. o FIX The zmc processes now exit if any 4xx error is reported from remote network image sources. o FIX The experimental zmtrack.pl script was broken and didnt work. This has now been corrected. o FIX Versions 0.4.8, 0.4.9-pre1 and CVS ffmpeg are now supported correctly. o FIX A problem with event statistics not always being output was fixed. o FIX A problem with the JPEG file quality setting being ignored was fixed. o FIX A problem with brackets in filters has been fixed. o FIX The console view previously could spawn instances of zmdc.pl when ZM wasnt running. This has now been corrected. o FIX The console view has been optimised to speed up display by up to a factor of ten. o FIX Scaling of stills event views has now been rationalised to not ever be smaller than 100% as the image is always sent at at least this resolution. o FIX A problem with zmaudit.pl mishandling recovered events has been fixed. o FIX Fixed number of minor memory access issues. o FIX Fixed undefined pid error in zmdc.pl. o FIX Changed a bunch of Info calls to Debug to reduce log clutter. o FIX Fixed a couple of problems with the authentication relay methods in zms. o FIX Fixed issue with control permissions whereby a user also needed monitor edit permissions to be able to control a monitor. o FIX Logs created by root are chowned to web user to help prevent permission issues. o FIX Problems with different type sizes when accessing shared memory on 64 bit systems have been fixed. o FIX The zmvideo script now quotes filenames correctly and so won't die if they have unusual characters in them. o FIX Fixed issue with streaming events with out of sequence frames causing immense timeouts. o FIX Most mysql queries in the web interface did not have their result resources freed. This was untidy but generally did not have any deleterious consequences. However all queries are now properly freed. o FIX Password handling in the user configuration form was a bit ugly. This has been tidied up. o FIX Some configuration has had default values changed. o LANGUAGE A Czech translation has been included.

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