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Zoneminder Experience?

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Ottertail

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I am looking to install a home security system and would like to learn about your Zoneminder experience. It seems to be the only Linux option available. I could also use Windows and install Blue Iris software but I prefer to stick to a Linux machine. I picked up one camera and have an older laptop that I can dedicate to camera surveillance.

I was curious if Zoneminder was a good choice and if it was easy for a relatively new Linux guy to get working. I have been searching the internet but cannot find any current reviews from Zoneminder users. I plan to install 4 or 5 cameras. I would like the software to email me when motion is detected. I would also like to look at the camera's remotely when I am out of town.

thanks
 
I have set up a half dozen ZM servers.
You can get some help from the forums, but it is not as active as it once was. Things have not changed for a while since the 1.25 release, and there are a few bugs to address if you just plan on grabbing a package. If you compile it from scratch they are easy to fix then.
Indoor or outdoor cams, I highly recommend Axis cams. They integrate better with ZM than any other camera, by far.
This is due to on-camera motion detection that can send a TCP trigger to the server. This offloads all the motion computing to the camera itself. Most cams do motion; the difference is, all the rest will send to an FTP or email, but NOT send a trigger.
My busiest facility runs 13 analog cams and 17 IP cams with only motion event recording, in a busy 24/7 facility. It recorded an average of 220,000 events in 5~6 weeks, on a Core2Duo with 2 gigs of ram and a 500GB Raid1.
I recently upgraded it to an i5 but the old server worked fine.
 
I tried it at home but found it was flaky and the forums are dead so can't get any help. One issue I found is that the "grainy" of the camera is enough to trigger movement detection so it records all the time, in 5 second mini videos that are impossible to follow since they get thrown all over the drive with no way to specify an alternate place.

Never went as far as looking at the source to make it better though.
 
you either had a really bad cam, trying to use a daylight cam at night, or did not properly adjust the zone of detection. I can eliminate most spurious events. The ones that are impossible are due to bright sunlight/clouds on those type of weather days.
 
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