General Notes

Zoneminder Build Notes

Required for Building

MySQL
OpenSSL
PHP
Apache
Perl/Libperl

./configure will complain if anything is missing.

Installing from Source

./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

./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"

Create and Populate the Database

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

SuSE 10 Notes

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.

Debian Notes

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6261

Misc Notes (Anyone care to categorize?)

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".
zmdc.log or /var/log/messages log any errors.
zm.sock file must be able to be created.

Apache

Permissions Problems

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

Allowing CGI Execution (REQUIRED for ZM)

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

Cambozola

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

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6320

Capture Card Issues

Image is Flipped

Applies to 4 inputs on one chip:

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6042

Scrambled Images

Applies to 4 inputs on one chip, using lspci and dmesg to determine hardware.

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6024

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

Repair a Database

Backup a Database

Delete Databases/Tables

Database Tricks/Tips

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

Configuring a Gentoo System & ZoneMinder

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=6337 http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4836 http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6147

Suse issues

Startup script

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6353

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

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