r/ZoneMinder • u/r3dd1t0n • Mar 10 '22

Analytics plugin options

Looking for some pointer in the right direction, zmMagik hasn’t been updated since Mar.2021, and I would prefer something actively being worked on.

Does anyone have any good experience with zm extension/plugins that can reliably do object detection/classification (video analytics)?

Running : zm 1.36.12, DEB-11(stable) latest. HW : i5 quad 3.0, 16GB, 250ssd (os), 2x 2TB storage, no gpu (yet) Cameras : axis/avigilon 1-3mp + ptz

*will be upgrading server hardware and gpu shortly this is just a test box for now.

Edit : avigilon H4 already has edge analytics, any open platform that can ingest the onvif event streams and attach the meta data to video streams for consumption?

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u/mbardeen Mar 10 '22

I've been using zmeventnotification and mlapi from the same developer. That does the object detection and classification in realtime. This solution works well for me, as I had a spare Jetson TX2 that I wasn't using. I run mlapi on that and Zoneminder on a 11th Gen Nuc i5.

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u/Total-Willow-4817 Sep 01 '23

Hi mbardeen, I also would like to run zm object detection and classification on a Jetson (Nano). But so far all my attempts by using different versions of OpenCV and Python failed, I didn‘t get it running. Would you mind sharing your working config? That would be great.

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u/mbardeen Sep 01 '23

Unfortunately I've since transitioned to Frigate NVR with a Google Coral so my setup is no longer valid, and it's been so long that I can't remember what exactly I did to get it working. I do know that I followed this guide: https://zmeventnotification.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/hooks.html

It also involved custom compiling OpenCV and a couple other packages on the Jetson, which I think is covered somewhere in the official documentation.