General Notes

Zoneminder Build Notes

Required for Building

• MySQL
• OpenSSL
• PHP
• Apache
• Perl/Libperl

./configure will complain if anything is missing.

Installing from Source

• http://www.zoneminder.com/fileadmin/downloads/README.html
  
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5715
  
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5929
  

./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql

--with-ffmpeg=/home/src/ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1

--with-lame=/home/src/lame-3.96.1/libmp3lame

--with-webdir=/home/sites/Security.658Ridgecrest.com/web

--with-cgidir=/home/sites/Security.658Ridgecrest.com/web

--with-webuser=httpd

--with-webgroup=httpd

--with-libarch=lib

--enable-debug=yes

OR

./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/htdocs/ZM

--with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin --sysconfdir=/etc

--with-webuser=httpd

--with-webgroup=httpd

OR

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6053

./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/html/zm

--with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin ZM_DB_PASS=<password>

Create and Populate the Database

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5754
  
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6023
  

mysql mysql < db/zm_create.sql

mysql mysql

> grant select,insert,update,delete on <database name>.* to '<database user>'@localhost identified by '<database password>';

> quit

mysqladmin reload

Debian Installation

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5391
  
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6215
  
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5892
  

./configure --with-mysql=/usr

--with-webdir=/var/www/zm

--with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin --sysconfdir=/etc

--with-ffmpeg=/usr/local

--with-webuser=www-data

--with-webgroup=www-data CPPFLAGS="-I /usr/local/ssl/include -I /usr/local/lib"

Ubuntu install

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5633 GUI package that installs Mplayer etc. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=356392 EXTRA_LIBS parameter in .configure script http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6141

SuSE 10 Notes

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5925
  
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5686
  
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6221
  
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6249
  
• Startup script
  • http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6353

Fedora4 Notes

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5991
  

Set web user and group correctly and set the log dir to a writeable location. With FC4 there are three things that must be done to get ZM running,:

1. is in the /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ dir created a file with 775 perm called zm.conf and add the line '/usr/local/lib' to it and type 'ldconfig' once it is added, also with a fresh install of FC4 make sure SE linux is disabled if you are not using it. Check your log path in options under the paths tab. This will tell you were the log are going to be put.
2. Second make sure the path exists.
3. Third create the log files if they do not exist and make sure that they have the correct permissions. If zm can not open and write the log files, it will not start.

Debian Notes

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6261

Gentoo Notes

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5685&highlight=gentoo
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4217&highlight=gentoo
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5303&highlight=gentoo
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3924&highlight=gentoo

Configuring a Gentoo System & ZoneMinder

Misc Notes (Anyone care to categorize?)

Check zone.conf or zm.conf. Check that there are no bogus vesions of this file lying around.
"nobody" doesn't have shell access, choose a different Apache alias like "httpd".
zmdc.log or /var/log/messages log any errors.
zm.sock file must be able to be created.

Apache

Permissions Problems

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5642

sudo -u apache /etc/rc.d/rc.zoneminder start

• • now.. zmc and zma is running on user apache

su Issue

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5652

Allowing CGI Execution (REQUIRED for ZM)

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5853

• /usr/local/etc/zm.conf must exist and what process owns it.

webuser and webgroup must be correct for apache to have ownership over zm.conf

BIOS Issues

Turning off ACPI power management in the BIOS may help alleviate some issues with ZoneMinder and capture hardware.

Brightness control

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3953
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5680
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3657

Contribs Forum

The contribs forum contains contributions from ZoneMinder users like yourself!

Cambozola

Cambozola is a Java plugin that decodes multipart JPEG streams. Mozilla-based browser have native support, so this plugin is for browsers like Internet Explorer that lack that support.

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5745
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6320

Capture Card Issues

Image is Flipped

• Applies to 4 inputs on one chip:
  • http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6042

Scrambled Images

• Applies to 4 inputs on one chip, using lspci and dmesg to determine hardware.
  • http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6024

CAUSE NOTES field section

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6065

Database MySQL

Create a New Database

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5754

Repair a Database

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5657
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5845

Database Tricks/Tips

• My personal recommendation is to try converting your database over to INNODB tables.
  • Researching the web I found this to be faster for larger tables (as events grow) and much more reliable.
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6000
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6143
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5657
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6095

Update Database After Installing from RPM's

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5887

ffmpeg

• Install ffmpeg for Fedora with

yum -i ffmpeg
yum -i ffmpeg-devel

• Install ffmpeg and ffmpeg-devel on Fedore4
  • http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5601

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release4.rpm yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel Place the devel stuff in /usr/include/ffmpeg Now configure, make, make install

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5576&sid=4e7192b74fe4306e341e9c4036727f7b
• After getting ffmpeg from CVS, do:

./configure , make, make install, make installibs

Image display problems

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6027

Firefox, Colorzilla Extensions

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5647

Kodicom Capture Cards

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5640
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4130
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6158
• KMC-8800 8-chip bt878 capture card
  • http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5609
  • http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Kodicom_4400R
  • http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6012

• modprobe.conf file
  • http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5508&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
  • http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6024

Edit your /etc/modprobe.conf file and add this line:
options bttv card=77
All screens must be the same resolution.

• bttv settings
  • http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5603&sid=4e7192b74fe4306e341e9c4036727f7b

note that under ubuntu that the file to edit is /etc/modprobe.d/aliases.

Logitech USB QuickCam

• I'm using FC4 and had a similiar problem with a quickcam 4000.

I guess you are using the default module supplied with CentOS. I think, not sure about this though, that it is missing some capabilities. So I installed the pwc module (http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/INSTALL.en) and these crashes stopped. http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5906

Message Logs

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5771

Memory Problems/Tweaks

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6242
• Shared memory setting must be high.
  • http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6024

SELinux Issues

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6337
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4836
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6147

cat sysctl.conf

1. Disable response to broadcasts.
2. You don't want yourself becoming a Smurf amplifier.

net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1

1. enable route verification on all interfaces

net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1

1. enable ipV6 forwarding
2. net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1

kernel.shmall = 134217728 kernel.shmmax = 134217728

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6000

Mocord, Record, Modect

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6120

Modprobe

modprobe.conf mod = 133 or something like that for Kodicom http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5603

Official ZoneMinder Manual

http://www.zoneminder.com/fileadmin/downloads/README.html

MMS Gateway and API Aoftware

GPRS or HTTP a Jpeg image to the MMS gateway server which in turn sends the image to a mobile phone

• http://www.redcoal.com/
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6101
• http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.mig.co.za

Multiple zones

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6079

Perl Package zmpgk.pl

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5801

Roundrobin

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5658

Remote Camera Source/ Using Another ZM Box as a Source==

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5549
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5595
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5549

Streaming

• rtp and raw streaming

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5572

Settings

• "disable farm out writing of images" if frame capture errors appear in log.
  
  • http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5992

• color pallet, video hieght, or video width. Try starting with 320x240 (assuming ntsc) and try different pallets.
  • http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6027&sid=9a52386394831b24741c67ba70cc1507

Timelapsed video

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6049

Vehicle Detection Links

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5858
• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5184&highlight=truck+intersection
• http://www.cnssystems.ca/

• All things are possible and the example someone posted a while back of detecting trucks and buses, but not cars, passing over a distant intersection is probably appropriate for you. What I would suggest you need are quite high pixel differences (indicating difference from the background) and pretty small counts of changed pixels or blob sizes. You might find it useful to turn on diagnostic images initially (and only for a while as they slow everything down a lot) which will output what ZM thinks the differences etc are are in the images.

Water marked

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4591&highlight=watermark http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4188&highlight=watermark

xawtv

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5696

what from xawtv -hwscan? xawtv -device /dev/video?

zmc daemon captures the images

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6146