Hardware Compatibility List

Zoneminder will work with almost any capture card that is supported by the linux kernel. You may find additional details about supported hardware in the Hardware Compatibility List part of the forums.

AKA; HCL, Hardware Compatibility List

Capture Cards

Pico2000 - 4 port card, one chip bt878, around 2 fps when using all channels

Bt878_4chip_8inputs - I don't know the name for it, 4 chips bt878, 8 inputs, around 5 fps when using 2 inputs per chip

bt878 8 chip 8 input - options bttv card=77,77,77,77,77,77,77,77. The card is supplied with D-sub to 8 BNC connector with the connectors labelled VID1, AUD1, VID2, AUD3 etc. The /dev/video device numbering may be backwards such that /dev/video7 is VID1, /dev/video6 -> VID2, 5 -> 3, 4 -> 4, /dev/video3 -> AUD1 etc.

Hauppauge

Ituner Spectra 8 [1]

Linux Media Labs LMLBT44 [2]

Provideo PV- series (Bluecherry) [3]

Grandtec Grand X Guard [4] - works with bttv on default settings (type=0)

Kodicom 4400r

Leadtek WinFast VC 100 - the cheapest bt878 model with no tuner on it, just Com/Svideo in.

Digiflower

Most other BTTV (bt878, bt848) cards, see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST on your system for a list of some of them.

A note on the bt8x8-based TV-tuner cards: these usually have beside the tuner input, also a Composite and an S-Video input. You can hook up 2 analog cameras to these, and access from ZoneMinder both of them as individual cameras, at max 15Fps. You don't need two separate TV cards for two cameras!

Analog Cameras

Any regular composite or S-video camera connected via a supported capture card. Some analog cameras feature camera control - ZM supports several of these camera's Pan/Tilt/Zoom functions via serial port control, as well as camera Presets, Focus, Iris, etc.

PictureTel PTZ2N.

Network Cameras

For Network Cams to work they need to be able to stream MJPEG without the requirement of activex controls. If you see the requirement for the camera calls for IE then there is a good chance it may not work. The other option is to grab JPEG images if the camera supports that option which will work but at a lower frame rate.

Full Compatibility

Axis All

D-Link Most

Gadspot Most

Level One some

Sony Most

Trendnet Most

Linksys WVC-210

Rimax

Any network camera that allows access to single JPEG image grabs or some but not all multi-part JPEG feeds.

Single Jpeg Only

Airlink 101 some

JVC some

Panasonic some

Toshiba some

Veo Observer IP NetCam most

Mpeg(ver1.24.0 and up)

ABS_MegaCam

Compatible with modifications

Aviosys some

Mobotix all

Edimax some

Conceptronic some

Compatible with problems

Grandtec WLAN Camera WiFi or III - acceptable indoor quality, no infrared-filter (better nightvision) cheap!

Intellinet IPCamera with the new firmware.

Old Intellinet IPCamera (model MWNC-100) with this (http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7500) protocol adapter.

OvisLink AirLive WL-5400CAM

Network Digitizers

Like Network Cameras, these devices produce a video stream - but they accept an analog video input from a camera or other video source.

The Aviosys IP9100, Models A, B and Plus has four analog video inputs. It produces a ZM compatible video stream from one of the inputs, which is selectable via an HTTP GET command. There might even be a control script for ZM that lets you select the active video input using ZM's Camera Control Presets!

With the yoics Aviosys 9100 firmware at http://www.yoics.com/?p=28, ZoneMinder can directly access all four ports via /usr/yoicsX.jpg as the remote host path, where X is 0 - 3.