General Notes

2006-06-01T16:54:02Z

Eddyhkim: /* Kodicom capture card */

==Zoneminder build notes==
*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>

*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"

*With a new install create and populate mysql databases.
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
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". The zmdc.log logs any errors.
zm.sock file must be able to be created.

*Build for Suse10
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5925 
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5686&highlight=suse 
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6221 
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6249 

*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,:
#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.
#Second make sure the path exists.
#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.

*OpenSSl and openssl-devel
You should have these packages installed:
openssl,openssl-devel,php-mysql
To check if you have them, do
rpm -qa | grep openssl

*General forum notes
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6261 

==Apache ==
*permission problem
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
*http webserver must allows cgi execution
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==
Turn off ACPI in the bios. ACPI is a power management configuration
on the motherboard that interferes with the datacapture cards.

==Brightness control==
Brightness control script
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3953&highlight=brightness
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5680
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3657

==contribs directory==
contribs directory has user based files added to zoneminder

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

==CAPTURE card issues==
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6042
Single chip with 4cameras can lead to image flipping.

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6024
LInux commands lspci ,dmesg
BT878 card with 1 cip/4 ins - Provideo PV143

==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
database repair
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5657&highlight=repair+database+mysql
Mysql corrupted via bad BIOS.
I pulled the battery for 5 minutes and slapped it back in. I booted, then started zoneminder. It didn't lock up! I went into the interface and found several lines of 'incorrect key file for table: 'E'Try to repair it' before the regular interface began. I stopped zoneminder and went into mysql - sure enough, the events and frames tables both had errors. I repaired them and restarted zoneminder successfully. The system is now running; I'm going to let it be and see if it dies as it did before.

*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

==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&sid=4e7192b74fe4306e341e9c4036727f7b
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

==Gentoo==
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5685
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+start

==Infrared illumination for nightvision==
*http://www.infraredlab.com uses chips from:
*http://www.roithner-laser.com/LED_HP_multi_chip.html
*http://www.amasci.com/amateur/irgoggl.html
*http://www.roithner-laser.com/All_Da...t-c-060301.pdf
:p.42 super high power LED,array, metal PCB ,package with 12 paral 1 mmÂ² power chips, 360Â° or 120Â°.Size: 72 x 32 mmÂ²
:p.40 high power LED array, 6 chips, Jumbo package, wavelengths at 590 nm, 640 nm, 660 nm, 810 nm 880 nm, 920 nm, 950 nm, M10 x 1.5 mm thread package
:p.33 narrow beam power LED series, 8Â° viewing angle, 1 power chip, clear epoxy package, square beam, no dark beam center from bonding wire, M12 x1 thread package

Roithner provides high power infrared Leds to illuminate a street at distances of over
300m.

==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 card==
:http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5640
:http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4130&highlight=kmc4400r
: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
"options bttv card =77" is a DEFAULT setting to get a card working.
All screens must be 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 QUICKCAM usb==
*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==
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6242

==SELinux was enabled==
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6147

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

frank@wdshss:/etc> cat sysctl.conf
# Disable response to broadcasts.
# You don't want yourself becoming a Smurf amplifier.
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1
# enable route verification on all interfaces
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
# enable ipV6 forwarding
#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

==Manual==
http://www.zoneminder.com/fileadmin/downloads/README.html#_Toc125113490

==MMS gateway and API software==
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/

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

==Perl package zmpgk.pl==
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5801

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

==Remote camera source==
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5549&sid=4e7192b74fe4306e341e9c4036727f7b

==Streaming ==
*rtp and raw streaming
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5572

==SETTINgs==
*"disable farm out wrtiting of imagess" 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

==Truck 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.

==Update database after installing from RPM's==
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5887
The command you enetered above only freshens it.
zmupdate.pl --version= <?>

==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

==Using another ZoneMinder box as the remote IP camera source==
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5595
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5549

==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

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