Filters

Here are some example filters for use with Zoneminder. If you have a useful filter, please add it here.

Note about purgewhenfull and Additional HDDs

See: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Using_a_dedicated_Hard_Drive

Examples

Receive email alarm on Weekends

For monitoring on the weekend you might have:

date/time greater than or equal to -1 minute AND
alarm frames greater than or equal to 1 AND
Weekday equal to Saturday OR
Weekday equal to Sunday AND
alarm frames greater than or equal to 1 AND
date/time greater than or equal to -1 minute

Choose "email details upon match" in the filter. For more details see Email

Receive email for specific monitor on Sunday

Monitor id equal to ### AND
Cause not equal to Signal AND
Date/Time greater than or equal to -1 minute AND
Alarm frames greater than or equal to 10 AND
Weekday equal to Sunday

Run filter from cron

You can use cron job to run the filter. Don't check the run in 
background box .. then in cron job run zmfilter.pl --filter_id=[whatever 
the id is] (from forum).

Related Links

https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=29280

https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userguide/filterevents.html#relative-items-in-date-strings

https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=28961