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Hardware Compatibility List

2013-09-13T21:48:29Z

Laberlu: /* Capture Cards */

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 part of the forums. Also if you find something in the forums that is missing from the wiki ADD IT.

== Capture Cards ==

[[Anykeeper]]

[[Avermedia]]

[[Camsecure PCI Express video capture]]

[[Digiflower]]

[[Geovision GV250 - bt878a chip]]

[[Grandtec Grand X Guard]]

[[Hauppauge]]

[[Ituner Spectra 8]]

[[Kodicom 4400r]]

[[Kodicom 8800]]

[[Tungson TE-8008]]

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

[[LinkDelight CCTV H.264 4CH DVR Card]]

[[Linux Media Labs LMLBT44]]

[[Osprey 100]]

[[Provideo PV- series (Bluecherry)]]
[[ Bluecherry - BC-H16480A]]
[[TView 95/99]]

[[Videocards with Philips saa7134 chipset]]

[[WinFast TV2000 XP]]

[[Rapid OS]]

[[KesCom PG104]]

== bt8x8 Cards ==
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!

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

[[Bt878_4chip_8inputs]] -4 chips bt878, 8 inputs, around 5 fps when using 2 inputs per chip

[[:Image:Karta.jpg| bt878 8 chip 8 input]] - This card is supplied with D-sub to 8 BNC connector and uses the bt878 chip for each input allowing full frame rates and quality. See [[Kodicom 8800]] for more information.

Geovision GV250 bt878a single chip 4 inputs - This capture Card is supplied with 4 video inputs but with NO audio channel

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

== 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.
*[[PicturetelControlScript | 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.

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

'''Full Compatibility '''

* [[7Links]](TM Trade Mark)

* [[A-mtk]]

* [[Abus]] some

* [[Airlink 101]] some

* [[Apexis]] (APM-J011-WS, APM-J012-WS, possibly others)

* [[ArecontVision]] (AV3130M, probably other too)

* [[Astak Mole]] Some

* [[Axis]] All

* [[Brickcom]] These have been tested

* [[BSTI]] Some

* [[Cisco]] some

* [[D-Link]] Most

* [[Foscam]] (FI8908W, FI8904W, possibly others)

* [[Gadspot]] Most

* [[Generic]] Only tested one

* [[Geovision]] (GV-FE420, possibly others)

* [[hootoo]] Some

* [[Iguard]] IP390E

* [[Instar]] (IN-2905, possibly others)

* [[Level One]] some

* [[Linksys]] WVC-210 / WVC2300 / PVC2300 / WVC54GC

* [[Loftek]] Sentinel PTZ

* [[Maygion]] (IP-603, IP-604, possibly others)

* [[Rimax]] Some

* [[Rovio]]

* [[Sony]] Most

* [[TP-LINK]] Some

* [[Trendnet]] Most

* [[Wanscam]] FR4020A2 (Foscam clone)

* [[x-vision]] Xvision cameras by y3k

* [[Y-Cam]] (Sharx Ip) Most

* [[Zavio]] Some

* [[Zecumate]] JPT3815W

* Remote systems, themselves running zoneminder, can be accessed as cameras using the Remote Path of '''/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=single&monitor=1&scale=100&maxfps=5&buffer=1000''' - where the monitor number is the correct camera on the remote system.

'''Single Jpeg Only'''

* [[Airlink 101]] some

* [[JVC]] some

* [[Panasonic]] some

* PLANET some

*[[Toshiba]] some

* [[Veo Observer IP NetCam]] most

*[[Vivotek]] All

'''Mpeg(ver1.24.0 and up)'''

*[[ABS_MegaCam]]

* [[Axis]] All

* [[ ACTi]] All

*[[Vivotek]] Most

'''Compatible with modifications'''

*[[Aviosys]] some

* [[Mobotix]] all

*[[Edimax]] some

* [[Conceptronic]] some

'''Compatible with problems'''

* [[Compro]] IP70. MPEG4 only, some reliability issues and general poor firmware quality.

* [[Grandtec]] [[Grandtec_WLAN_Camera|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

Useful link: Flash's IP Camera Database, with Zoneminder compatibility guide: http://digdilem.org/cameras

== 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.

* [[Synectics E100]] encoder
*The [[IP9100 | 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.

== USB Cameras ==

*Just Zoom USB cam

*Creative Webcam Pro, Webcam 3, LIVE! Cam OPTIA PRO (V4L2, Chan 0, PAL, YUYV)

*''Most'' UVCvideo cameras, including: [[Logitech QuickCam Express]], QuickCam Pro 3000, [[QuickCam Pro 4000]], QuickCam Communicate STX/Deluxe, [[Logitech Webcam Pro 9000]], and [[Webcam C250]]

*Logitech Quickcam Orbit/Sphere (experimental basic pan/tilt control has also published for testing and hacking [http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9788])

*[[Philips]]

*Any OV511 based USB camera [http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/cameras.html]

*Any CPIA based USB camera [http://webcam.sourceforge.net]

*[[LabTec WebCam Pro]]

*Confirmed basic functionality with Microsoft Lifecam VX 5000 using UVC Streaming method

Note that most USB cameras that can use Video4Linux/V4L2, and so can be used by ZoneMinder. Some have older chipsets and can be hard to find new.

Note that PWC drivers are not included in the kernel. Some distribution's add them in and other may not. Here are some relevant links:
* [http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ Old Maintainer]
* [http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ Current PWC Maintainer]

== X10 Devices ==
The only device that really needs to be compatable with ZM is the Transceiver, all other x10 devices comunicate through that device.
*[[CM11]] Bi-Directional Transceiver

Other X10 notes:

[http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6423&highlight=x10 Topic 6423]

[http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7082&highlight=x10 Topic 7082]

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* [http://www.tokobungasabana.com Toko Bunga Online]

== Plug Computers ==
Guruplug Server Plus -> How to install Zoneminder

KesCom PG104

2013-09-13T21:47:29Z

Laberlu: typo

The KesCom PG104 is similar to the [[Pico2000]], but uses a Techwell TW6805A chip.

= Installation =

To use this capture card you need to compile the driver. For Ubuntu Server 12.04.03 LTS with 3.8 kernel the source can be found at [[http://gitorious.org/tw68/smokeyjoness-tw68-v2]].

<pre>
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install build-essential
mkdir techwell
cd techwell
git clone git://gitorious.org/tw68/smokeyjoness-tw68-v2.git
cd smokeyjoness-tw68-v2
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe tw68
</pre>

After compiling and "loading" the tw68 modules, you need to check that the modules are actually loaded (lsmod|grep tw). You should have the following output:

<pre>
~$ lsmod |grep tw
tw68 44633 2
videodev 86588 3 tw68
videobuf_dma_sg 18786 1 tw68
videobuf_core 25409 2 tw68,videobuf_dma_sg
btcx_risc 13400 1 tw68
</pre>

Issuing the dmesg command, you should see a "video device" found, labeled /dev/video0.
This video device has channels from 0 to 3 for the 4 inputs.

Beginner hardware

2013-09-13T21:45:10Z

Laberlu: tw6800 chip information added

==Option 1==

The best, first advice is to check that your camera is compatible with zoneminder's motion JPEG (MJPEG).

You should read the [[Documentation]]. The developers spent and continue to spend a great deal of time writing it... you should spend at least a little time reading it. Specifically, read the part about shared memory.

'''Recommended IP cameras'''

[[Axis]] brand cameras are a good choice, but expensive.

[[BSIT]] are really cheap but also not the greatest quality.

Camera quality varies greatly, both in actual image quality and in operational reliability. Remember that you often "get what you pay for." Cameras from high volume manufacturers may be subject to software/hardware compromises that lower cost at the risk of breaking functionality and/or compatibility with standards.

Avoid cameras that require 1.24(aka: mpeg video) because it make things harder for beginners.

==Option 2==

The best beginners hardware and setup is to use an old unused system, anything from late Pentium 3 or Athlon XP generation of cpus will be more than enough for a setup capable of running 2 or 3 cameras depending on configuration.

You will need one of the cheap pci cctv capture cards from Ebay that use the bt878 chip, if you search for pci cctv on ebay then most of the cheap cards that show up will be a card of this type, see the [[Pico2000]] section of the Zoneminder wiki for a few photos of these cards and a little more technical information.
For capture cards with tw6800 chips you have to compile the driver. Have a look at [[KesCom PG104]] for instructions.

You can alternatively buy them and better boards from the retailers in the [[shop]] section of this webpage.

You will need to configure the capture card as described in the [[Pico2000]] wiki

Next source some standard analogue cameras from the retailers listed on this page or any other source you like.

Install Zoneminder using the [[CentOS]] guide contained in the wiki or any other distro guide you are happy with, I personally started with the CentOS guide and it has worked well for me.

Configure and then you're running!!!.

This is of course a beginners system and so can be expanded and improved on once you are happy, my aim in this design is to build a Zoneminder system as cheaply and basic as possible, I have made a lots of setups that are still operating on the above basis.

KesCom PG104

2013-09-13T21:39:24Z

Laberlu: Created page with "The KesCom PG104 is similar to the Pico2000, but uses an Techwell TW6805A chip. = Installation = To use this capture card you need to compile the driver. For Ubuntu Serv..."

The KesCom PG104 is similar to the [[Pico2000]], but uses an Techwell TW6805A chip.

= Installation =

To use this capture card you need to compile the driver. For Ubuntu Server 12.04.03 LTS with 3.8 kernel the source can be found at [[http://gitorious.org/tw68/smokeyjoness-tw68-v2]].

<pre>
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install build-essential
mkdir techwell
cd techwell
git clone git://gitorious.org/tw68/smokeyjoness-tw68-v2.git
cd smokeyjoness-tw68-v2
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe tw68
</pre>

After compiling and "loading" the tw68 modules, you need to check that the modules are actually loaded (lsmod|grep tw). You should have the following output:

<pre>
~$ lsmod |grep tw
tw68 44633 2
videodev 86588 3 tw68
videobuf_dma_sg 18786 1 tw68
videobuf_core 25409 2 tw68,videobuf_dma_sg
btcx_risc 13400 1 tw68
</pre>

Issuing the dmesg command, you should see a "video devices" found, labeled /dev/video0.
This video device has channels from 0 to 3 for the 4 inputs.

Bt878 4chip 8inputs

2013-09-13T20:59:27Z

Laberlu: spam removed

== Noname with 4 bt878 chips and 8 inputs ==

* tip: also check [[Pico2000]] related card info;

When using all channels you'll get around 5 fps.
Warning it takes a long time to boot using this card. Maybe settings are bad. But it is working OK.

== Configuration ==

''/etc/modprobe.conf''
<pre>
options bttv card=0,0,0,0 tuner=4,4,4,4
</pre>

If your driver is compiled into the kernel, add the following to be passed onto the kernel from LILO or GRUB.
<pre>
bttv.card=0,0,0,0 bttv.tuner=4,4,4,4
</pre>

* A list of card types and tuner types can be found in the Linux kernel sources under Documentation
<pre>
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/file/tip/linux/Documentation/video4linux
</pre>

== Photos ==

[[Image:Bt878_4chip_8inputs_1.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Bt878_4chip_8inputs_2.jpg|200px]]

LinkDelight CCTV H.264 4CH DVR Card

2013-09-13T20:57:37Z

Laberlu: spam removed

CCTV H.264 4CH DVR Card Real-time 100/120FPS Audio/video Capture Security Card (SKU: ESC09)

As found on eBay: [[http://www.ebay.ca/itm/CCTV-H-264-4CH-DVR-Card-Real-time-100-120FPS-Video-Audio-Connection-Cable?item=330647829755&cmd=ViewItem]]
Cost: around 22 $US

= Features =

This HD Digital Video Recording Card is installed to your computer host and the coming adapter cable connected with camera, to achieved host working as DVR and watch the camera image in LCD display. This DVR card is 4 channels, so it support 4pcs cameras and you can see 4 camera images in LCD display simultaneously.

* Video compression adopts advanced H.264
* Support widescreen display, including 1024*768 and above
* 4CH video 4CH audio, coming with 4ch video/audio connection cable
* Support smart mobile phone view, Windows mobile, Symbian mobile, IPhone
* Support Windows 2000 /2003 / XP / Vista / Windows 7 OS
* Support 4 split-screens playback and convenient to search recording files
* Support net remote preview, playback, record, PTZ control
* Support manual record, timer record and motion detection record
* PTZ: support multi-protocol, RS232/485, highspeed dome control software
* Support motion detection alarm & video lost alarm
* Security: multi-lever password, user right option, system keyboard lock

''Kindly Note:'' This cable isn’t compatible with the system of Window7 64bit

= Features =

<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" width="176">Model </td>
<td width="324">4004 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="4" width="70">Video </td>
<td width="105">Format </td>
<td width="324">NTSC / PAL </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Compression </td>
<td width="324">H ． 264 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Input </td>
<td width="324">4CH BNC </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Output </td>
<td width="324">VGA </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" width="176">Audio </td>
<td width="324">4CH AV </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" width="176">Support OS </td>
<td width="324">Windows 2000 /2003 / XP / Vista / Windows 7 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3" width="70">Display </td>
<td width="105">Frame rate </td>
<td width="324">NTSC:120fps, PAL: 100fps </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Resolution </td>
<td width="324">352×288 320×288 704×576 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Split screen </td>
<td width="324">1 、 4 、 cycle </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="4" width="70">Record </td>
<td width="105">Frame rate </td>
<td width="324">NTSC:120fps, PAL: 100fps </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Resolution </td>
<td width="324">352×288 320×288 704×576 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Recording Mode </td>
<td width="324">Manual, Time, Motion Detection </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Mode </td>
<td width="324">1/8—8 times speed playback optional </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="4" width="70">Net Function </td>
<td width="105">Transmission mode </td>
<td width="324">LAN / PSTN / ISDN / ADSL </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Transmission protocol </td>
<td width="324">UDP/TCP </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Connection Mode </td>
<td width="324">Clients software/ IE Browse/Smart phone client software </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Main functions </td>
<td width="324">Remote preview 、 Video playback 、 Remote control </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" width="70">Alert </td>
<td width="105">type </td>
<td width="324">Motion detection, Video loss </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Linkage </td>
<td width="324">Channel record 、 Sound alerts </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3" width="70">Others </td>
<td width="105">PTZ </td>
<td width="324">Support multi-protocol,RS232/485,highspeed dome control software </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">Back up </td>
<td width="324">USB 、 Network 、 CD-RW 、 DVD-RW </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="105">security </td>
<td width="324">Multi-lever password, user right option, system keyboard lock </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" width="176">Net Weight </td>
<td width="324">52g </td>
</tr>
</table>

= ZoneMinder =

I was able to make this card under Ubuntu 12.04 server with a minimal amount of fuss. The Card is based on a Techwell 6800 Chipset, and I was able to find the appropriate Linux Drivers at this site:

Drivers: [[http://gitorious.org/tw68/tw68-v2|TW68-V2 Drivers]]

Installation:

<pre>
mkdir techwell
cd techwell/
git clone git://gitorious.org/tw68/tw68-v2.git
tw68-v2/
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe tw68
lsmod|grep tw
dmesg
</pre>

I'm sorry I haven't kept a copy of the whole session. After compiling and "loading" the tw68 modules, you need to check that the modules are actually loaded (lsmod|grep tw). You should have the following output:

<pre>
~$ lsmod |grep tw
tw68 44633 2
videodev 86588 3 tw68
videobuf_dma_sg 18786 1 tw68
videobuf_core 25409 2 tw68,videobuf_dma_sg
btcx_risc 13400 1 tw68
</pre>

Issuing the dmesg command, you should see 4 "video devices" found, labeled from /dev/video0 to /dev/video3... Each video device is tied to an input from the card.

I haven't bothered yet with the "audio" part of it, so I can't tell you if that works or not. If you're able to test it, please update this wiki page to let others know...

'''Although I do get a lot of messages in dmesg, concerning "[261734.936103] tw6810[0]/0: [c5c8bb40/1] timeout - dma=0x05f8a000", the capture does work well.'''

[10/26/2012]
I found that if you're using two cards you can end up with some really nasty artifacts that manifest themselves as white horizontal lines on the feeds, after doing some calculations finding myself close to saturating PCI bus, I found these instructions on the [http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Videocards_with_Philips_saa7134_chipset phillips] page:

<pre>
Do not forget to to increase "shared memory" at the end of /etc/sysctl.conf with
kernel.shmall = 134217728
kernel.shmmax = 134217728

cause your card supports 640x480 pixel with 24 bit depth and thats more than 112Mbyte ;-)
</pre>

doing this allows me to run 8 cams @ 12fps full 640x480 without artifacts

= Zoneminder configuration =

The following screenshots show how I configured the device in my zoneminder:

[[File:LD_CCTV_ZM1.jpg]]

[[File:LD_CCTV_ZM2.jpg]]

= Observations =

I currently have zoneminder installed on an Intel Atom 525 with 4 GB of RAM. This same system has the "LinkDelight CCTV H.264 4CH DVR Card" installed on it and monitoring 2 CCTV cameras at around ~20fps each (@ 640x480), with ~30 % Cpu Usage across the 4 "cores".

Mind you, it is also receiving a video stream from an IP camera @ 15 fps (640x480). I haven't enable any motion detection yet.

All-in-all it's a nice, cheap card that works for me.

Beginner hardware

2013-09-13T20:40:16Z

Laberlu: spam removed

==Option 1==

The best, first advice is to check that your camera is compatible with zoneminder's motion JPEG (MJPEG).

You should read the [[Documentation]]. The developers spent and continue to spend a great deal of time writing it... you should spend at least a little time reading it. Specifically, read the part about shared memory.

'''Recommended IP cameras'''

[[Axis]] brand cameras are a good choice, but expensive.

[[BSIT]] are really cheap but also not the greatest quality.

Camera quality varies greatly, both in actual image quality and in operational reliability. Remember that you often "get what you pay for." Cameras from high volume manufacturers may be subject to software/hardware compromises that lower cost at the risk of breaking functionality and/or compatibility with standards.

Avoid cameras that require 1.24(aka: mpeg video) because it make things harder for beginners.

==Option 2==

The best beginners hardware and setup is to use an old unused system, anything from late Pentium 3 or Athlon XP generation of cpus will be more than enough for a setup capable of running 2 or 3 cameras depending on configuration.

You will need one of the cheap pci cctv capture cards from Ebay that use the bt878 chip, if you search for pci cctv on ebay then most of the cheap cards that show up will be a card of this type, see the [[Pico2000]] section of the Zoneminder wiki for a few photos of these cards and a little more technical information.

You can alternatively buy them and better boards from the retailers in the [[shop]] section of this webpage.

You will need to configure the capture card as described in the [[Pico2000]] wiki

Next source some standard analogue cameras from the retailers listed on this page or any other source you like.

Install Zoneminder using the [[CentOS]] guide contained in the wiki or any other distro guide you are happy with, I personally started with the CentOS guide and it has worked well for me.

Configure and then you're running!!!.

This is of course a beginners system and so can be expanded and improved on once you are happy, my aim in this design is to build a Zoneminder system as cheaply and basic as possible, I have made a lots of setups that are still operating on the above basis.