ZMCONTROL(1)

✨ zmcontrol.pl ✨ — ZoneMinder control script 💅

okay bestie, so this is zmcontrol.pl, and it lives in section 1 of the manual (User Contributed Perl Documentation, iykyk). it's the ZoneMinder control script. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

zmcontrol.pl --id {monitor_id} [--command={command}] [various options]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the entire description is, and I quote, FIXME FIXME 😭

that's it. that's the whole thing. the author left us a literal FIXME FIXME and honestly? iconic of them. the way they said "I'll write this later" and later never came. no cap. 💀

fr fr — the description in the original page is exactly the text FIXME FIXME. nothing more. so don't come for me, I'm just the messenger. 🙈

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

so here's the whole list, bestie. some of these have a lil description, some are just vibes and a dash. I'm telling you exactly what the page tells you, nothing invented. 💖

• --autostop — no description on this one. it's just sitting there. mysterious main character energy. 👑
• --xcoord [ arg ] — X-coord. 🌸
• --ycoord [ arg ] — Y-coord. 🌸
• --speed [ arg ] — Speed. 🏎️
• --step [ arg ] — no description, just a lil - placeholder. 💅
• --panspeed [ arg ] — no description, just a -. 🤐
• --panstep [ arg ] — no description, just a -. 🦋
• --tiltspeed [ arg ] — no description, just a -. 🦋
• --tiltstep [ arg ] — no description, just a -. ✨
• --preset [ arg ] — no description, just a -. ⭐

and that's the whole options list. ten of them. I counted. not one skipped. 💜

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lowkey the whole page is a work in progress and I respect the honesty. 🎀

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this lil manual page was written up by the Perl crew for perl v5.40.1, and it's dated 2026-02-01. mwah, thanks for reading, bestie — go control those monitors 💅✨