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New versions are also available, give this one a shot:

ftp://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/1.24/ubuntu/9.04/zoneminder_1.24.1-pre-1_i386.deb

For a directory listing goto ftp://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/

Hi!

This tutorial seems to be nice but the images are to small to see anything on them. 

Agreed!!!

Should be large enough now... Thanks 

This tutorial seems really nice and will be usefull for my video surveillance company

Sorry, ¿it are ip cams or analog cams?

yes, both of them are supported, as well usb cams

nice Tutorial,

Did try some of the setting but still blank ... :(

Thank you.

For the clear instructions.

For the actual commands which I cut and pasted.

For my successful install.

Been trying for 3 days to get Zoneminder to work with no luck until now.

Thanks again

Does this Zoneminder works on fedora series?

Hi,

I was trying to follow this instruction!

But when I type the following command in the terminal

wget ftp://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/ubuntu/dapper/zoneminder_1.22.3-8_i386.deb

then the following result shown

$ wget ftps://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/ubuntu/dapper/zoneminder_1.22.3-8_i386.deb
ftps://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/ubuntu/dapper/zoneminder_1.22.3-8_i386.deb: Unsupported scheme.
mamunk2@mamunk2-laptop:~$ wget ftp://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/ubuntu/dapper/zoneminder_1.22.3-8_i386.deb
--07:46:43--  ftp://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/ubuntu/dapper/zoneminder_1.22.3-8_i386.deb
           => `zoneminder_1.22.3-8_i386.deb'
Resolving www.northern-ridge.com.au... 202.61.194.152
Connecting to www.northern-ridge.com.au|202.61.194.152|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /zoneminder/ubuntu/dapper ...
No such directory `zoneminder/ubuntu/dapper'.

Could you tell me whats wrong there?

Thanks

Mamun
 

looks like the directories are different now...i did alittle investigating and it seems that the correct link in that line would be

ftp://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/1.22.3/ubuntu/dapper/zoneminder_1.22.3-10_i386.deb

clicked on the link for new zoneminder. It actually went and dloaded and tried to install. a first after years of trying to get ubuntu to do anything. But it complains about unresolvable dependencies. WHy cant linux programmers write standalone code or have the routines compiled into their code. My biggest problem with linux is all the libs and and headers needed that after a month are no longer up to date or supported.  Programs should run not make you pull out your hair looking for hacks to make it work.

I'm a newbie in terms of setting up video surveillance using a linux system so please bear with me.

How well does this setup work at recording the video feeds from all four cameras?  Is this only a monitoring station or can it be used to record the feeds to a large enough hard drive installed on the system?

 I'm looking for a cheaper solution then shelling out the $$ for a full on DVR surveillance system.

Thanks...very cool page.

Thanks for the page! 

But, couldn't most of your from-source instructions be replaced with a simple apt-get call?

sudo apt-get install zoneminder

Your last two command line instructions, however, I found to be very much necessary.

 sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf

 sudo adduser www-data video

(I executed this first one, then lost track of this web page, spent hours trying to debug the black screen "shared memory not initialized by capture daemon" / "shared memory not valid" / "can't get shared memory id"  issues and finally found that I could fix them with "chmod 606 /dev/video0"... but turns out that your adduser fix is the more appropriate fix )

 Everything appears to be working now!  Thanks!

Hi 

Sorry for ask from here 

how can i fix these errors ? Please

 zmwatch.log

05/27/09 15:03:01.020779 zmwatch[2716].ERR [Can't get shared memory id '7a6d0001', 1: No such file or directory]
05/27/09 15:03:11.021439 zmwatch[2716].ERR [Can't get shared memory id '7a6d0001', 1: No such file or directory]
05/27/09 15:03:21.022613 zmwatch[2716].ERR [Can't get shared memory id '7a6d0001', 1: No such file or directory]

zm_Debug.log

05/27/09 16:12:42.088896 zmc_m1[8860].INF-zm_debug.c/292 [New Debug Level = 0, New Debug Log = /tmp/zm_debug.log.08860]
05/27/09 16:12:42.105799 zmc_m1[8860].INF-zmc.cpp/186 [Starting Capture]
05/27/09 16:12:42.271182 zmc_m1[8860].ERR-zm_remote_camera_http.cpp/99 [Can't connect to remote camera: No route to host]
05/27/09 16:12:42.271250 zmc_m1[8860].ERR-zm_remote_camera_http.cpp/1019 [Unable to connect to camera]
05/27/09 16:12:42.271269 zmc_m1[8860].ERR-zmc.cpp/251 [Failed to pre-capture monitor 1 (0/1)]

 zmdc.log

05/27/09 15:02:07.316738 zmdc[2686].INF [Server starting at 09/05/27 15:02:07]
05/27/09 15:02:10.447738 zmdc[2686].INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 09/05/27 15:02:10, pid = 2708]
05/27/09 15:02:10.554589 zmdc[2686].ERR ['zmc -m 1' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
05/27/09 15:02:10.554802 zmdc[2686].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -m 1]

For shared memory related problems see the short page

http://www.riccardotempesta.com/informatica/53-zoneminder-e-shared-memory

 Carlo

Did you ever solve this ?

I can confirm that this works in Ubuntu 9.10 also  - add the zoneminder package and then either edit the apache.conf or link as you did, then

sudo adduser www-data video

I'm using a 4 port capture card from Bluecherry (PV143) and it works great. Thanks!

As a follow up, I've just gone through a reinstall with the PV143 card (bttv) on Ubuntu Server 9.10 - here are the steps:

Base Install followed by sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install zoneminder

sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf 

sudo adduser www-data video

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf and then add the following line:

options bttv gbuffers=32 card=77 tuner=4 radio=0 coring=1 full_luma_range=1 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=1 autoload=0 triton1=0 vsfx=0

Reboot and add a monitor!

After finally getting ZM working with Ubuntu, I've added a tutorial at http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_9.04_Jaunty_desktop_with_graphical_interface which addresses some of the problems we ran into, which hopefully will help others too.  I thought I'd link to it from here as this seems to be a popular tutorial and hopefully my extra hints will complement it.  Good luck!

Steve

Thank you for this tutorial

hi, can you write to me on skype ? nick: aarnijs152

 or you can there give ansver on my question ?

 how can i set on zoneminder on modect> events time lenght, it makes only max 22 second record on motiopn, but i need in motion option , but i want set in motion event , to record min one week, or month ,,, ?

 can you help me ? any body ? 

 thanks :) 

Which part of "Do not use this space to ask for help" did you don't understand ?

Hi,

 I was just following your guide and MAN ! it rocks.. helpet me ALOT!

 so thank you very very much,

i just got a little update, the ftp link for zoneminder that you provited does NOT work anymore, but i found this instead for a version thats newer:

ftp://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/1.24/ubuntu/jaunty/zoneminder_1.24.2-1_i386.deb

just wanted to tell :)

and again, thanks for the awesome guide !

Great article, I'm just about to give it a go on a Hyper-V box!

Hello,

Just to say that it is highly recommanded to use the option -f  [in apt-get command] with extreme precaution as it could generate some problems..

Another way to install ZM on debian like system is to use squeeze dist (it contains zm version 1.24..) which is really straight forward in that it eliminates the headache of dependencies :-)

So if u choose this way of doing, edit /etc/apt/sources.list, comment everything and add the following:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main

then:

# apt-get update

# apt-get -y install zoneminder

# ln -s    /etc/zm/apache2.conf     /etc/apache2/zoneminder.conf

(I am not sure if in your installation you will have the same names but i guess it will be ok in 98%.. )

if u need help write me

An error had occured in my previous message: for the symbolic linking the correct command is the following

# ln -s    /etc/zm/apache.conf     /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf

I am getting this error 

ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf’

Hi,
in debian testing (jessie) and in ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Trusty, you should replace conf.d with conf-enabled

~# ls -la /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/zoneminder.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 ago 27 17:45 /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/zoneminder.conf -> /etc/zm/apache.conf

This guide was much more helpful than the Zoneminder guide for Ubuntu. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

Thank you for the easy to follow document, seamless integration with (3) DCS 930L's over wireless!!

I can't find the directory: zoneminder/ubuntu/dapper? Is there any other?

Cheers

The range and the clarity of this CCTV camera is really awesome. I recently have a new IP CCTV camera that i bought from an online store and the clarity of that is much better than what you have shown here...

I have followed step by step in this tutorial, everything is describe, how to install and configure ZoneMinder on Debian/Ubuntu.

http://terminal28.com/how-to-install-and-configure-zoneminder-linux-cctv-debian/

Brilliant tutorial!

Is there a mode that allows for a live video feed?

Actually this tutorial didn't help me at all. It appears that several critical steps have been omitted. There is stuff-all information about what parameters to put in all the fields and without those, I can't see ANYTHING. Presumably the word 'monitor' refers to a camera but if that is the case it is unnecessarily confusing. I've added four 'monitors' but none of the four cameras even exist as far as Zoneminder is concerned. Where is the troubleshooter ? or did the person who produced the tutorial assume it wasn't necessary and that every installation would work perfectly. Before people start juping up and down, I've spent hundreds of hours over any weeks attepting to make some sense of Zoneminder but every step forward is hard won.

Great tutorial! Sadly though, for me, ZoneMinder died with 15 cameras so I had no choice but to start from scratch. Here is what it is so far : https://github.com/moeiscool/Shinobi You can check out a comparison with ZoneMinder on the website at http://shinobi.video/features#learn