Hello,

I am new to zone monitor, loving it so far.

Basically what I am trying to achieve is to disable one monitor while I am home, as it is in my personal bedroom. I figure a way for my box to note the fact if I am home or not is to see if either my phone or laptop is available on the local wifi network.

So I know how to test every minute to check if these devices are ping-able, but I am not sure how to disable the monitor.
Does zone minder have an API to disable a single API or should I look into disabling /dev/video0 through perl / bash scripting through the operating system itself?

Thanks.

Check out this http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=19162 ZM thread. I've written a Net app to control the camera functions of any specific camera. Maybe this util will fill your needs.