Actions based on camera motion (zoneminder)

[mitch2k]

Hi,

I have a couple of camera’s around the house using zoneminder. I have integrated zoneminder in HASS. Now I want to control some lights based on movement. For example turn on the garden lights for 1 minute if movement is detected.
I don’t think there is such an option in the zoneminder component by default, to detect motion. What is the suggested approach on this? Should I use zoneminder filters (http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/userguide/filterevents.html) to send a API request to HASS (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/en/external_api_rest.html)? Or is there a better approach?

Thanks

[Bit-River]

I posted one way of doing it, using motion installed on a Pi or Odroid, might give you some ideas.

I’m happy with it, though it’s not going to win any code beauty contests

Camera Area Detection via a USB Cam, a Pi and 'Motion' - triggering Hass events & a local Linux PC notification

Starting with a usb webcam, a Pi or similar (Odroids are great for this, better than a Pi) running Raspbian or Ubuntu Server. Install Motion: sudo apt-get install motion Then edit the motion configuration file: sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf If you’ve never used Motion before at a minimum you’ll need to change this setting so you can view the camera from another pc and use it in Home Assistant. # Restrict webcam connections to localhost only (default: on) webcam_localhost on Change t…

I don’t know Zoneminder beyond the name, so I couldn’t tell you if there’s a better way with that.

[mitch2k]

Hi,

great. I’ll try to adapt it to ZM based on your example. Thanks!