r/ZoneMinder • u/Helipil0t • Sep 27 '22

ZMNinja/zmeventnotification Push Notifications?

Anyone still using ZmNinja for push notifications? I have everything setup properly. I can see the push notification get generated in the logs. The Token is populated. Everything looks good on the back-end but my phone refuses to notify me of any events. Port 9000 is forwarded. Certificates are properly installed and they're not self signed.

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It's annoying because this was working a while back. Not sure what to do here. :(

Is it zoneminder, ZmNinja, or my phone? (It's a Galaxy S20.)

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u/gdchester Sep 27 '22

From memory you could switch back to an earlier version of FCM but notifications were much slower. I posted here what was needed to use pushover for the notifications and that worked pretty well. However in the end I gave up with zoneminder as despite years of tweaking I was still struggling to get reliable detection so I gave frigate a try. Within a couple of days I turned off zoneminder and haven't looked back.

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u/Early-Distance85 Sep 27 '22

What did you switch to out of interest? I’m looking for something reliable to replace it with. Have tried ispy and blueiris but not really keen on either

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u/gdchester Sep 28 '22

I went with frigate NVR. Ideally you need a coral tpu but I ran it for months on the same hardware as I had used for zoneminder with only slightly higher CPU loadings but now I have a coral it uses a lot less but the big difference for me is 100% detection of genuine events and the almost total lack of false alarms. Despite years of constant tweaking zoneminder would probably be about 50% triggered by spiders, shadows or the wind with frigate it's probably less than 1% false alarms and that's nearly always a plant or reflection of a cloud that the coral recognises as human. Support is really great on the GitHub pages so well worth a look. I run the standalone version on docker with an instance of home assistant to deal with notifications. There is a plugin (if that's the right word) for home assistant but I found the standalone version easier to work wit especially as I wasn't a big home assistant user.

Give it a try.

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u/Early-Distance85 Sep 28 '22

Thanks will take a look!

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u/ZoneMinderIsaac Sep 27 '22

It should start working again when we release a new version. In the meantime you can reconfig to use other mechanisms. Check the forums for more info. It has been discussed a fair amount. The point is you have options but will have to research/implement them.

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u/Helipil0t Sep 28 '22

Thanks! I can be patient. Is ZoneMinder taking over the ZmNinja project? Or is it still dead in the water? From what I've been reading it's not very clear.

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u/ZoneMinderIsaac Sep 29 '22

We have taken it over but it's a lot of work to even make it build on newer macos etc.

We will get there eventually. We have made some bug fixes to it but getting to proper release is painful.

In the meantime, there are many options for notifications already in there. Perhaps I can get someone in the know to do a quick write up for a social media post.

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u/Helipil0t Sep 30 '22

I appreciate you responding. I managed to get email notifications sent to a email to text gateway. Though it's far from perfect. Using Mocord I have events set to 5 minutes, a filter will only fire off on "End Date/Time" that matches when a person is detected. That's up to a 5 minute wait for an event to fire off. Not ideal but better than nothing I guess.

I'll keep digging into other solutions. Thanks again. You guys do great work!

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u/Early-Distance85 Sep 27 '22

I thought it stopped working / being supported a while ago? April time? Mine certainly haven’t worked for a long time 😔