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'''Making ZoneMinder not spam you with all past events''' | '''Making ZoneMinder not spam you with all past events''' | ||
| − | If you create a background alert to sent email or text messages or whatever, there's no way to tell zoneminder that you only want that alert to be triggered on *new* events - which is to say, there's no way to prevent it from sending you an email alert for every single matching | + | If you create a background alert to sent email or text messages or whatever, there's no way to tell zoneminder that you only want that alert to be triggered on *new* events - which is to say, there's no way to prevent it from sending you an email alert for every single matching event that's ever been saved since you first installed zoneminder. I learned that "Unarchived" does not mean what I thought it meant when I got 5509 emails for events going back several years. |
Although there's no way to do this through the UI, you can just edit the zm database directly: | Although there's no way to do this through the UI, you can just edit the zm database directly: | ||
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update Events set Emailed = 1 where Emailed = 0; | update Events set Emailed = 1 where Emailed = 0; | ||
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| + | likewise for "Paged" if you're using the pager version rather than the email version. | ||
Latest revision as of 03:33, 6 August 2011
Making ZoneMinder not spam you with all past events
If you create a background alert to sent email or text messages or whatever, there's no way to tell zoneminder that you only want that alert to be triggered on *new* events - which is to say, there's no way to prevent it from sending you an email alert for every single matching event that's ever been saved since you first installed zoneminder. I learned that "Unarchived" does not mean what I thought it meant when I got 5509 emails for events going back several years.
Although there's no way to do this through the UI, you can just edit the zm database directly:
update Events set Emailed = 1 where Emailed = 0;
likewise for "Paged" if you're using the pager version rather than the email version.