ZoneLess is a set of applications, tools that allow us to control, monitor our security cameras, surveillance.
What is ZoneMinder?
As I just said, it is a set of tools that help us to monitor, control our security cameras. It is made up of several scripts (perl, etc), as well as a web interface (PHP) that makes the whole process more user-friendly.
Suppose we have a business and acquire several surveillance cameras in a local store, or it may be the surveillance system of a communications node, the fact is that we need a system that allows us to see what is happening in the premises we monitor, through simple and intuitive options we can start or stop recording, rotate the camera (if the hardware supports it), etc.
Here are several screenshots of ZoneLessWell, as they say around here, a picture is worth a thousand words:
ZoneMinder Installation
First of all, I recommend that you access the ZoneMinder Wiki, as they must take into account compatibility between the hardware they have with the system they will install.
In the same wiki there are excellent installation guides for Ubuntu y CentOS, we will take as an example the guide of Ubuntu 14.04 with ZoneMinder 1.28.1:
First we must have an environment installed LAMP, that is, Apache, MySQL and PHP. I will not stop at this, because here in the Blog we have already put several tutorials for it.
Then we will edit the MySQL configuration file, to make a change and then restart the service:
sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf
We add the following under [mysql]:
innodb_file_per_table
Then we restart MySQL:
sudo service mysql restart
We also need to enable the Apache cgi module, which is not activated by default:
a2enmod cgi
And we restart Apache:
sudo service apache2 restart
Now we will add the ZoneMinder repository and install it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa: iconnor / zoneminder sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install zoneminder
Installation of extra packages required by ZoneMinder
Also, we will need to install some extra packages:
sudo apt-get install libvlc-dev libvlccore-dev vlc
Also, we'll edit the MySQL daemon startup file to specify that it wait a few seconds before launching the service:
sudo nano /etc/init.d/mysql
There we add under 'start) ó start () { following:
Sleep 15
It can look like this:
start () {sleep 15 echo -n "Starting $ prog:"
Now let's go on to configure Apache, we must create a directory (in case it does not exist) inside which, we will put two files (symbolic links actually):
sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/conf.d sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf / etc / apache2 /conf-enabled/zoneminder.conf
Let's add the user www-data (which is the user with which Apache interacts with the system) to the video group:
sudo usermod -a -G video www-data
Ready, we can restart Apache:
sudo service apache2 restart
Now we can open the web interface by accessing: http://direccion-ip/zm/
That is, we put the IP address of the server where we just installed ZoneMinder, or the subdomain (Ex: camaras.minegocio.com)
Once inside the PHP interface, you can configure, add cameras and everything with simple options, at the click of a button 😉
Conclusions about ZoneMinder
Personally, whatever it takes to increase security, no matter how paranoid he may seem, I support him. When you have a Node or even more, a DataCenter, security is never little or enough.
You can have excellent security through software, in fact not recently we leave some tips, but it is useless to have an excellent firewall, complex access passwords, if physical access is not controlled by security cameras, for not having physical barriers or a perimeter security system.
By the way… ZoneMinder is on GitHub 😀
Excellent brother, just what I was looking for: D.
Now I just hope my hardware is compatible.
A pleasure 🙂
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That is so easy and interesting you have to put it into practice ,,,,
Great set of tools in one.
It will cost me to try it with a pi rapper, to see how it works.
The comments are repeated, but thank you very much !! I have problems with English and this helps me a lot.
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Thanks for sharing.
Would that work with a DVR? That is, you have 4 cameras connected to a DVR that records all day. Could Zone Minder be configured to access that DVR, view the recordings, etcetera?
good there luis .. successes
Thanks, I'm liking what I'm seeing, I'll test it to see how it works on the raspberry pi
Very interesting, I was wondering if such a thing existed; this gives me very interesting options. Thank you.
Hello, I am following the manual and I have a question.
In this script /etc/init.d/mysql that starts the mysql service, I have to delay the service for 15 seconds, but I don't know where to add these lines of code, it is not clear to me.
start () {
Sleep 15
echo -n "Starting $ prog:"
case «$ {1: -»} »in
'start')
sanitation_checks;
# start daemon
log_daemon_msg "Starting MySQL database server" "mysqld"
if mysqld_status check_alive nowarn; then
log_progress_msg "already running"
log_end_msg 0
else
# Could be removed During boot
test -e / var / run / mysqld || install -m 755 -o mysql -g root -d $
#StartMySQL!
/ usr / bin / mysqld_safe> / dev / null 2> & 1 &
# 6s was reported in # 352070 to be too few when using ndbclus $
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14; do
Sleep 1
if mysqld_status check_alive nowarn; then break; fi
log_progress_msg "."
done
if mysqld_status check_alive warn; then
Good tuto, thanks, now I would like to know which perl script is the one that is executed when an event or alarm is triggered, and the path to the file in Ubuntu 14.04, this is to make some modifications to the script
I have a standalone dvr with 16 cameras and I would like to view and record through the zoneminder ubuntu lubuntu 14.04 as a faço to add cameras to the dvr
This is a great tool to deter crime. This set of applications are very useful for all kinds of security management of the business organization. I like that it is all the features.
Greetings, I hope someone could help with my problem, I already installed it and I have followed the steps, however I have reached the time to load the zoneminderhttp://localhost/zm) and this sends me an error:
Unable to connect to ZM db.SQLSTATE [HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
I hope someone could give me a little light on the matter, I am starting to use linux and now at this moment I do not know what to do.
Very good post! Now it is clear to me
Very good information !!, I will finally be able to install the security camera !!
thanks!
A query does this program support analog and ip cameras? at the same time?
It has worked for me with my analog camera!
Hello, here is more information to complement the topic about installing, configuring and implementing ZoneMinder in Debian Linux
https://leninmhs.com.ve/instalacion-configuracion-zoneminder/
URL updated due to domain change:
https://leninmhs.com/instalacion-configuracion-zoneminder/
I make a query, does this program also allow access to DVR recorders ??? I need something with which I can access a generic Chinese DVR model 6004H, the same when I enter from a browser on my Linux PC asks me to download an ActiveX driver to access it. I have looked around for it and there is no case, without that damn microsoft control I cannot see the cameras of my DVR in Linux.
It is terrible that device manufacturers leave GNU / Linux users behind !!!
Well, I check with horror that after a year no one has answered my query. I still cannot use my generic Chinese network DVR because it forces me to install the obsolete ActiveX control that does not even work in Ruindows anymore, so I am left with a nail device (which they sold me with the promise of being able to watch on the network local and online my cameras).