Zoneminder Web Interface

1. . This will allow a camera to be triggered to start recording after a contact is opened or motion is dectected in a desired mode. Optional features includes being able to turn on a light and to send a push/text message. Setup instructions for the Zoneminder (My setup is using Ubuntu 13.10 & ZoneMinder v1.25):. 1.
2. ZoneMinder is video and cctv surveillance and security application. It supports multiple video or IP cameras and a sophisticated motion detection system based around zones. Both live streams and historic events can be viewed via the web interface. Zoneminder Appliance for VMware.
3. ZoneMinder provides the facility to control cameras from the web interface and to some extent automatically. Pan/Tilt/Zoom (PTZ) cameras have a wide range of capabilities and use a large number of different protocols making any kind of generic control solution potentially very difficult.

• Zoneminder Web Interface Tool
• Zoneminder Web Interface Tutorial

With the 'All-in-one' motto, the user can take advantage of all management, control and every functions by using the Web interface. In fact, there are many users on the world using Zoneminder for 4 key purposes: home security, theft prevention, industrial and commercial security, household use. Blue Iris vs Zoneminder Comparision. To use ZoneMinder properly you need to define at least one Monitor. Essentially, a monitor is associated with a camera and can continually check it for motion detection and such like. You can access the monitor window by clicking on the 'Add New Monitor' button, or by clicking on the 'Source' column of a predefined monitor.

ZoneMinder is a security camera program for Ubuntu. Google draw architecture. With it you can use your server as a security camera DVR that you can view online and record to the hard disk of the server. Make sure to plug in a USB webcam or similar device before you continue.

Zoneminder Web Interface Tool

• Use Aptitude to install ZoneMinder
• sudo aptitude install zoneminder
• Aptitude will ask you if you want to install a bunch of extra packages. Make sure to say yes to that.

Zoneminder Web Interface Tutorial

1. Find your IP address using the ifconfig command
2. Go to a web browser and type ip-address/zm in the URL bar
   • You will then see the zoneminder console.
3. Click on 'Add New Monitor'
   This is what the ZoneMinder console looks like after it has been configured. Here, the camera name is 'Downstairs'
4. Fill in the Name, Source Type, and Function. For now, just set the function to Monitor.
5. Put in a Maximum FPS (frames per second). If you don't know what to put just type 15
6. Put the same value as Max FPS into the Alarm Max FPS field.
7. Click on the source tab on the top of the window.
8. You will have to find the Device Path of your specific camera. Mine was /dev/video0. You could look in your syslog to find this.
9. You will also need to find the Device Format, Capture Palette, Capture Width, and Capture Hight from the cameras manufacturer.
10. Click 'Save'
    • If everything is working you should see the camera monitor you just made in the list. If you click on it you can view the camera as jpegs.

You can use almost any USB webcam or if you want a real security camera please use this list to find compatible cameras and capture cards. Google chrome installer direct download.