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Instant Notification

2008-04-12T21:38:14Z

Roach:

==Real-time Alarms & Notifications==
ZoneMinder 1.22.3 features instant filters that can now be used to execute actions such as emailing or deleting events directly without being saved as a background polling filter.

==Why?==
#Devices like mobile phones make SMS an ''acceptable'' method of communicating events.
#Push devices like Blackberrys make email an ''excellent'' method of instant intrusion notification.
#Audio alerts from the ZM server can be useful.
#Running other commands instantly on alarm can be useful.

==Examples==
* Send SMS messages through email gateways, like teleflip.com.
* Sound an audibe alarm on the server.
* Send email instantly containing event information & snapshot.
* Instantly trigger events elsewhere using xAP or X10.

==Note On This Feature==
The discussion in the forum is relevant to this feature.
* http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10573&highlight=motion+alarm

==How-To==

Pico2000

2008-04-12T15:58:40Z

Roach:

== PICO2000 DVR card ==
The cheapest DVR card.
With all 4 channels capturing you'll get around 2 fps.
Available under lots of different brand names, like "Star Imavision Video Capture", etc... Generally stated as "Pico2000 compatible"

This card uses a single Conexant 878A chip. It is a 4 Camera Security PCI Card.

Compression : MPEG4. Display Resolution: 352 x 240 (NTSC). Screen Display: 1/4/7/10/13/16 multi-view or full screen. Network: Remote Monitoring and Recording with Search and Playback. Upgradeable - 4 cards in a PC for 16 cameras. Minimum PC capability: Pentium III 800 MHz or equivalent.

== Configuration ==

in '''''/etc/modprobe.conf'''''

For one card:
<pre>
options bttv card=77 tuner=4 radio=0 triton1=0 vsfx=0 autoload=0
</pre>
For two cards:
<pre>
options bttv card=77,77 tuner=4,4 radio=0,0 triton1=0 vsfx=0 autoload=0
</pre>
And so on...

Also, if during bootup your system hangs for 5 minutes or more at "Setting clock (utc)": add this '''''before''''' ''options bttv''
<pre>
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
</pre>

== Conexant Fusion 878A ==

The Conexant Fusion 878A chip is a recent incarnation of the Brooktree Bt878A chip. The booktree Bt878A is successor to the well known Bt848. The Bt848 was designed by Brooktree, which is now Conexant. This chip is common on video capture cards and cctv cards.

Why do we mention this? Because this is the chip on the Pico PCI CCTV card. This is also a chip commonly used on many video capture devices, TV cards, and is supported by a wide range of video capture software. However, video capture software supporting Bt878A that is not designed for CCTV will likely only allow you to access one camera port at a time.

[http://wiki.robotz.com/index.php/Pico_Install_Instructions_4_Port_CCTV_DVR_Card#Conexant_Fusion_878A http://wiki.robotz.com/images/d/da/Conexantfusion878A.png]

== Photos ==
[[Image:4ch DVR card.jpg|220px|Pico2000 photo 3]]
[[Image:Pico2000_1.jpg|200px|Pico2000 photo 1]]
[[Image:Pico2000_2.jpg|200px|Pico2000 photo 2]]

Fedora

2008-04-12T14:59:39Z

Roach: /* Fedora 8 */

The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored, community-supported open source project. Its stated goal is to promote the rapid progress of free (as in freedom) and open source software and content, and its rapid innovation is possible using open processes and public forums.

The project is led by the Fedora Project Board, which is comprised of community leaders and Red Hat members, and this group steers the direction of the project and of Fedora Core, the Linux distribution it develops. Red Hat employees work with the code alongside community members, and many Fedora Project innovations make their way into new releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

ZoneMinder is developed on the Fedora distribution and no special actions are usually required for installation.

For problems with ZoneMinder packages from the Fedora Extras Repo, contact the package maintainer Martin Ebourne (mebourne).

==Fedora 8==
* Have packages for Apache and MySQL installed on the sytem.
* Install the zoneminder RPM package on the system
: Fedora Information for package zoneminder
: * http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=4691
* Configure zoneminder
* 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

The Fedora RPM creates /var/log/zoneminder, but the database scripts point logs to /tmp, rather than the new directory.
* Click '''Options''', '''Paths''' tab, and change
ZM_PATH_LOGS = /var/log/zoneminder
* Click '''Options''', '''Debug''' tab, and change
ZM_EXTRA_DEBUG_LOG = /var/log/zoneminder/zm_debug.log+

* Install ffmpeg on Fedora.
Due to licensing the ffmpeg package is absent from Fedora. It can be added from [[Fedora_Linux_Distribution_Reference#Livna:_Get_Important_Packages_Missing_From_Fedora|Livna]].
wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
rpm -ih livna-release-8.rpm
yum install ffmpeg
yum install ffmpeg-devel
Which provides the following: ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.41.20071011.lvn8, ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.41.20071011.lvn8, ffmpeg-devel-0.4.9-0.41.20071011.lvn8

* Test ffmpeg
ffmpeg -f image2 -i %03d-capture.jpg /tmp/movie.mpg

==Fedora 7==
* Builds From source - see [[Fedora Core 6 Step-by-Step]] '''AS WELL AS''' [http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9414 Fedora 7 forum topic]
*RPMs are Available in the '''main Fedora 7 distribution''', and in the development 'rawhide' tree.
**Its as easy as running: yum install zoneminder
**Take a look at [http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9674 The Announcement post in the forums]

==Fedora Core 6==
*Build from source [[Fedora Core 6 Step-by-Step]]

* RPMs are also available right now in '''Fedora Extras''' for Fedora Core 6.
** [http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9674 The Announcement post in the forums]

==Fedora Core 4==
* http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5991<br>
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. '''

Capture Resolution Width x Height

2008-04-12T14:57:19Z

Roach:

== Capture Width x Height ==

The [http://wiki.robotz.com/index.php/Analog_TV_and_Digital_Video_Resolution_Guide Analog TV and Digital Video Resolution Guide] explains how lines of TV resolution translates into pixels. The default setting for a camera on ZoneMinder is 320x240 pixels.

First, your capture card can limit the resolution you must use. The capabilities of the capture card may dictate that you set 320x240 for all your cameras connected to the capture card - if using an analog capture card.

For IP cameras the best match between camera and pixel resolution is if the number of lines equals with the height of the captured picture.

* For resolutions above 352x240 NTSC the video will become interlaced.
* For resolutions above 368x288 PAL the video will become interlaced.

When an image is interlaced, basically 2 passes are made on camera, one pass for odd lines, one for even, and these are spliced together to form one image. The interlaced frames are 1/60th of a second apart.

=== de-interlacing errors on 878A single chip cards ===

ZM_CAPTURES_PER_FRAME with interlacing, the default is 3, you can try 2 to solve interlacing problems. If you stick with 320x240 you will not have to worry about interlacing issues.

 

Fedora

2008-04-12T14:50:52Z

Roach:

The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored, community-supported open source project. Its stated goal is to promote the rapid progress of free (as in freedom) and open source software and content, and its rapid innovation is possible using open processes and public forums.

The project is led by the Fedora Project Board, which is comprised of community leaders and Red Hat members, and this group steers the direction of the project and of Fedora Core, the Linux distribution it develops. Red Hat employees work with the code alongside community members, and many Fedora Project innovations make their way into new releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

ZoneMinder is developed on the Fedora distribution and no special actions are usually required for installation.

For problems with ZoneMinder packages from the Fedora Extras Repo, contact the package maintainer Martin Ebourne (mebourne).

==Fedora 8==
* Have packages for Apache and MySQL installed on the sytem.
* Install the zoneminder RPM package on the system
* Configure zoneminder
* 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

The Fedora RPM creates /var/log/zoneminder, but the database scripts point logs to /tmp, rather than the new directory.
* Click '''Options''', '''Paths''' tab, and change
ZM_PATH_LOGS = /var/log/zoneminder
* Click '''Options''', '''Debug''' tab, and change
ZM_EXTRA_DEBUG_LOG = /var/log/zoneminder/zm_debug.log+

* Install ffmpeg on Fedora.
Due to licensing the ffmpeg package is absent from Fedora. It can be added from [[Fedora_Linux_Distribution_Reference#Livna:_Get_Important_Packages_Missing_From_Fedora|Livna]].
wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
rpm -ih livna-release-8.rpm
yum install ffmpeg
yum install ffmpeg-devel
Which provides the following: ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.41.20071011.lvn8, ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.41.20071011.lvn8, ffmpeg-devel-0.4.9-0.41.20071011.lvn8

* Test ffmpeg
ffmpeg -f image2 -i %03d-capture.jpg /tmp/movie.mpg

==Fedora 7==
* Builds From source - see [[Fedora Core 6 Step-by-Step]] '''AS WELL AS''' [http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9414 Fedora 7 forum topic]
*RPMs are Available in the '''main Fedora 7 distribution''', and in the development 'rawhide' tree.
**Its as easy as running: yum install zoneminder
**Take a look at [http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9674 The Announcement post in the forums]

==Fedora Core 6==
*Build from source [[Fedora Core 6 Step-by-Step]]

* RPMs are also available right now in '''Fedora Extras''' for Fedora Core 6.
** [http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9674 The Announcement post in the forums]

==Fedora Core 4==
* http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5991<br>
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. '''