ZMES

From the github: The Event Notification Server sits along with ZoneMinder and offers real time notifications, support for push notifications as well as Machine Learning powered recognition. As of today, it supports:

   - detection of 80 types of objects (persons, cars, etc.)
   - face recognition
   - deep license plate recognition

I will add more algorithms over time. Ref: https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zmeventnotification

In plain terms, why would you want to use ZMES? Because it avoids false positives associated with weather, automobiles, nature, and a number of other factors. ZMES will get motion detection to detect correctly in the 90-99% range. To do this with Zoneminder's built in motion detection is more difficult.

Setup

Refer to https://zmeventnotification.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/install.html

Troubleshooting

I installed opencv per the zmeventnotification docs, but import cv2 doesn't work...?

This happens to me following the default guides. I'm probably missing a step, but the below solves it for me (debian 11):

the install path is local to the build folder, but the module is further down a few directories. so the shared object / module needs to be copied to the path...
therefore:

root@zmes:/home/user/build# python3 -m site
sys.path = [
    '/home/user/build',
    '/usr/lib/python39.zip',
    '/usr/lib/python3.9',
    '/usr/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload',
    '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages',
    '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages',
]
USER_BASE: '/root/.local' (exists)
USER_SITE: '/root/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages' (doesn't exist)
ENABLE_USER_SITE: True
root@zmes:/home/user/build# cp lib/python3/cv2.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/.
root@zmes:/home/user/build# python3
Python 3.9.2 (default, Feb 28 2021, 17:03:44) 
[GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import cv2
>>> quit()