ZoneMinder CCTV Camera Monitoring Software

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ZoneMinder is a set of applications intended for use in CCTV video camera security applications. It supports capture, analyse, recording and monitoring of any cameras you have attached to a Linux based machine. It also features a user-friendly Web interface which allows viewing, archival, review, and deletion of images and movies captured by the cameras.

ZoneMinder has a highly configuratble image analysis system permitting retention of specific events, while eliminating false positives. ZoneMinder supports both directly connected and network cameras and is built around the definition of a set of individual 'zones' of varying sensitivity and functionality for each camera.

This allows the elimination of regions which should be ignored or the definition of areas which will alarm if various thresholds are exceeded in conjunction with other zones. All management, control, and other functions are supported through the Web interface.

ZoneMinder is designed to run on kernels which support the Video For Linux (V4L) interface and has been tested with cameras attached to BTTV cards, various USB cameras and IP network cameras. It is designed to support as many cameras as you can attach to your computer without too much degradation of performance.

ZoneMinder Web Site

Fedora Information for package zoneminder

ZoneMinder Tutorial

Fedora Setup

  • Have packages for Apache and MySQL installed on the sytem.
  • Install the zoneminder RPM package on the system
  • Configure zoneminder

The packaged version of Zone Minder installs all binarys to /usr/lib/zm including the web pages. So don’t worry when you do not see any files installed to the root directory for your web server. The web pages for Apache are aliased by zm.conf in the apache/conf.d directory which vary depending on your distribution.

  • Make sure Apache and MySQL services are running
  • Edit the zoneminder.conf apache configuration file to allow web connections 
 vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/zoneminder.conf
  • Build the MySQL database table for zoneminder 
 mysql -p -u root mysql < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql > mysqladmin -p -u root reload




 

 

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