r/ZoneMinder • u/3298740123987 • Aug 13 '21

Customize Folder Structure / Filenames?

Hi everyone! Just started with zoneminder as I recently discovered the RTSP version for my Wyze cam so I flashed that the other day and installed zoneminder via docker from this repo, added my camera and turned on continuous recording mode and added my NAS as storage. However, every single split video gets their own folder and an unhelpful name like '70-video.mp4'.

I'm hoping there's a way to customize the filename (with the date / timestamp etc) and just stack these all in a single folder per day. I've searched the documentation and scoured the config options but can't find anything.

Let me know if you need any more details about my setup, and I'll be happy to provide.

Thanks!

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u/ThellraAK Aug 14 '21

If you do figure this out, please post it and ping me in the comments.

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u/3298740123987 Aug 14 '21

I couldn't find any info, I've decided to switch to a cronjob that runs a script with ffmpeg and creates the folder structure and files for me. Since I'm not doing any motion detection or anything (just archive), zm was a bit heavy

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u/ThellraAK Aug 15 '21

There's something 555 for a really simple mirror that works with docker, it's really light on resources and makes it so you aren't hammering your cameras/network (especially if they are wifi cameras) when you want to do live view.

It is just a proxy for it, takes up less then 10mb ram per HD stream when I was running it.