zm-watcher/README.md

Library provides possibility to watch for new files in ZoneMinder events directory (per camera)

zm-watcher
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Library provides possibility to watch for new files in [ZoneMinder](http://www.zoneminder.com/) events directory (per camera).
The purposes of this library to trigger new ZM event in real time.
[For example you can mirror files to another local directory or even to box.com cloud service.](http://blog.solvek.com/2015/11/zoneminder-mirror.html)

The library was tested with node.js 5 but it should work starting from node.js 0.12.x

## Installation

    npm install zm-watcher
    
## Usage

    var zmwather = require("zmwatcher");
    
    var watcher = zmwatcher.watch("/path/to/events", "HomeCamera", "CorridorCamera", function(path){
        // Here we have path in form "HomeCamera/15/11/05/.../....jpg" - if a new image is placed
    });
       
    ...
    
    // Unwatch when not needed anymore
    watcher.unwatch();