Ubuntu Server 19.10 Zoneminder 1.33.x
Zoneminder 1.32 made it into the "official" Ubuntu 19.04 repositories. Unfortunately the MP4 recording and playback does not work with the shipped version as there are missing libraries (libmp4v2-2). So events can only be saved in jpeg-frames, video recordings do not happen. [State: 01 MAY 2019]
These instructions will show how to install Zoneminder 1.32-3 from the iconnor ppa with mp4 support to use video recordings.
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You will need to install LAMP then secure MySQL before installing Zoneminder.
Here are the basic commands you will need. As always start from a root (sudo su) prompt.
Secure MySQL or Mariadb
mysql_secure_installation
Add entry into my.cnf
nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf
Add the following to the end of the file
[mysqld] sql_mode = NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION
CTRL + o CTRL +x
Restart MySQL
systemctl restart mysql
Install Zoneminder
apt install zoneminder
The database is not created automatically. Create the database with
mysql -uroot -p < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql
mysql -uroot -p -e "grant all on zm.* to 'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass';"
mysqladmin -uroot -p reload
Fix permissions
chmod 740 /etc/zm/zm.conf
chown root:www-data /etc/zm/zm.conf
chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/zoneminder/
Enable Zoneminder service
systemctl enable zoneminder.service
Add a user for local cameras
adduser www-data video
Enable Apache Features
a2enmod cgi
a2enmod rewrite
a2enconf zoneminder
Add timezone to PHP
nano /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini
Search for [Date] (Ctrl + w then type Date and press Enter) and make changes as follows for your time zone
[Date]
- Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
- http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = America/New_York
Ctrl+o Enter to save
CTRL+x to exit
Restart Apache
service apache2 reload
Zoneminder should work! Open Zoneminder in a web browser (http://server-ip/zm).
