April 2018

zm_auto: a bash script to totally automate Zoneminder

This is a bash script with several functions to totally automate Zoneminder and is also present a service to install to automatically start this script at boot. With this script you can: automatically switch the Day and Night states based on hour automatically switch to the Armed state if a bluetooth device isn't more detected automatically move the ptz cameras in two different preset when changing state automatically restart Zoneminder if it goes in the Inactive state Here the code of zm_auto.sh: #!/bin/bash # License: GPL # # Author: Mentor <[email protected]> # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 # of the License, or...

zmodopipe: connect Zoneminder with several DVR

Thanks to zmodopipe we can connect Zoneminder with several commercial DVR as the Zmodo ones, this is a project that have been started on the Zoneminder forum by the user Phoenix84 and has been continued on github by the user pbeyl . I'm simply copying it here for backup purposes. Here the code of zmodopipe.c: /***************************************** * Read QSee/Zmodo cameras * * Forward stream...

Vodafone Station: find and use the Vodafone DDNS

The Vodafone Station can be reached remotely by smartphone with its own app and for make this possible the Vodafone uses a proprietary DDNS. Knowing the above info we can get this DDNS and we can use it for our needs. To know what is the DDNS that our Vodafone Station uses we can simply reach with the browser this address: vodafone.station/main.cgi?action=getconf to download the Vodafone Station'...

Grub2 and WindSLIC: insert WindSLIC entry instead of the Windows Bootloader one

We can customize the Grub2 to boot Windows via WindSLIC. We have to create the grub's configuration /etc/grub.d/25_windslick: #!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change # the 'exec tail' line above. menuentry 'Windows Boot Manager (su /dev/sda1)' --class...

Vstarcam: download the firmware of an IP Camera

The firmware of a Vstarcam IP Camera is composed by a Firmware part and a Web UI part. Every camera has its own version code for the two firmwares and we can find their version code from the camera web server. For example for the Vstarcam C7824WIP we have: Firmware Version 48.53.72.79 Web UI Version EN53.8.1.14 The first three digits identify the IP Camera and the last digit is the firmware...