pyzm: The Python ZoneMinder library you want

oZoneDev
zmNinja
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1 min readFeb 11, 2020

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A few months ago, I developed pyzm — an easy to use functional Python interface wrapper for ZoneMinder. This was mostly due to the fact that I need a pythonic way to interact with ZoneMinder. Not only did I want an API wrapper, but I also wanted to be able to tap into ZoneMinder’s logging system, Shared Memory and the Event server.

Thus pyzm was born, and with ZM 1.34, pyzm is now the official ZM python wrapper.

It really is very simple to use and has full documentation.

Here is a full example on how you go about retrieving events that had objects detected in them:

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zmNinja

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