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HOWTO: Make a CCTV DVR with Ubuntu 10.04 and ZoneMinder

What you need: 1. The Ubuntu mini CD 2. A linux and ZoneMinder-supported capture card 3. A PC Lets start! 1. Install Ubuntu 2. After the base system is installed install ssh (always good to have) and ZoneMinder 3.
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server zoneminder

4. Add the www-data user to the video group to access the video streams from the web interface:
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo usermod -a -G video www-data

5. Make Apache automatically start the ZoneMinder web interface and restart Apache:
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/sitesenabled/001-zoneminder Password: user@ubuntu:~$ sudo service apache2 restart

6. At this point you should be able to open ZoneMinders web interface by pointing your browser to http://IP-OF-ZONEMINDER-SERVER/zm/ 7. Download Cambozola to be able to view the live streams from any Java enabled browser in case the Flash viewer does not work for you:

user@ubuntu:~$ wget http://www.charliemouse.com:8080/code/cambozola/cambozolalatest.tar.gz user@ubuntu:~$ tar -zxvf cambozola-latest.tar.gz user@ubuntu:~$ sudo cp cambozola-0.76/dist/cambozola.jar /usr/share/zoneminder/

Please note: As of writing this cambozola version 0.76 is the latest one, hence if you get a newer version you should change to the respective directory. 8. Its time to add your cameras its best to first read ZoneMinders defining a monitor documentation 9. In the very likely event that you get black/blank screen when you try to view the live feed from your camera, then you should change your maximum allowed amount of shared memory and restart Apache and ZoneMinder:
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo echo "256000000" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax user@ubuntu:~$ sudo service apache2 restart user@ubuntu:~$ sudo service zoneminder restart

How to calculate that magic number (256000000 in my case) is discussed in this thread in the ZoneMinders forums. Its best to read it and calculate the amount yourself, as this is highly dependent on the cameras that you intend to use. In order to add the change permanently youll need to edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add a line kernel.shmmax = 256000000 to it. If you are still getting no image you should check your cameras and how you set them and experiment with the Device format and Capture palette. 10. Youre all set! It might be a good idea to slightly tweak some configuration options. You can do that from the Web Interfaces options menu it is located in the upper right corner, just below the load/disk-usage monitor and it took me quite a while to find it. 1. Options -> Image -> OPT_CAMBOZOLA set to TICKED 2. Options -> Image -> STREAM_METHOD set to mpeg I plan to implement also a Live View monitor so stay tuned for the next HOWTO. Tagged in: CCTV, HOWTO, linux, Ubuntu, ZoneMinder Posted on July 6th, 2010 and updated on July 17th, 2010 19 Comments Pings/Trackbacks 1. Anyone recommend a CCTV system? - Page 2 - Digital World Cable Satellite Console Forum at 02:03 on August 13th, 2010:

[...] easy to install, since its a synaptec package and installs all the dependencies for you and used this guide. If you need any help let us know, hardest bit was getting the cameras to work, but alls i [...] 19 Comments on HOWTO: Make a CCTV DVR with Ubuntu 10.04 and ZoneMinder

1. Scott said at 02:08 on July 18th, 2010: Thanks for the guide. I had trouble getting Zoneminder to work on my Ubuntu 10.04 system but after following your steps it is working great!

2. Darin said at 02:15 on July 31st, 2010: Excellent tutorial, after many hours of trying to install zoneminder from many different guides, thanks to you I finally have it running! Thanks heaps ;o)

3. luis said at 20:56 on August 26th, 2010: thancks, a lot!!!!

4. Joe said at 17:45 on November 4th, 2010: I have installed zoneminder running apt-get install zoneminder and it installs correctly. I am able to connect from a wepage to it and setup video0 and video1 but nothing happens. The video screen opens but nothing plays. I am running a wintv-pvr 150 and wintv-pvr-250 card. I know both cards are working fine as i go under dmesg and see them installed with no errors. I also run: dmesg | grep Initialized [ 10.442558] ivtv0: Initialized card: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 [ 11.513321] ivtv1: Initialized card: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 under cd /dev i see this. video0 video1

video24 video25 video32 video33 i then test the video by typing. cat /dev/video0 > /home/joe/test_captureTEST5000.mpg (this plays back in vlc player fine) i then test video1. cat /dev/video1 > /home/joe/test_captureTEST6000.mpg (this one plays back in vlc player fine too. When i run v412-ctl -T, i get 99% signal on the video0, then i run v4l2-ctl device=/dev/video1 -T and i get 99% on video1 signal too. Now i just need help on getting zoneminder to play the video as i setup video0 and video1 in zoneminder and it installed properly. i installed zoneminder by running. sudo apt-get install zoneminder thanks

5. Georgi said at 18:06 on November 4th, 2010: Hey Joe, How far did you get with my tutorial? Do you mean to view the live feed in ZoneMinder, or do you mean to replay recordings or you havent setup the video feeds at all?

6. Ross said at 15:04 on November 11th, 2010: I have installed zoneminder and my terminal says openssh is installed I copy and pasted from step 4 above sudo usermod -a -G video www-data, I copy and pasted from step 5 above sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001zoneminder Password: The terminal looked like this: ross@ross-desktop:~$ sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-zoneminder ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-zoneminder: File exists ross@ross-desktop:~$ Password: (PRESSED ENTER)

@ p ( ) Password: command not found If I put in a password or not the outcome is the same Im not sure of what to do here I restarted apache and tried to open web interface anywaywith http://IP-OF-ZONEMINDERSERVER/zm/ and then firefox converted it to http://www.ip-of-zoneminder-server.com/zm/but and came back with server not found. would appricate your help Thanks

7. Georgi said at 17:18 on November 11th, 2010: @Ross: Nothing to worry about step 4 failing! It means that you actually have the link to auto-start zoneminder, so its all good As to not being able to open the web interface well you have to replace IP-OF-ZONEMINDERSERVER with the actual IP address of the server! If youre trying to view the web interface from the same computer where you have zoneminder installed you can replace IP-OF-ZONEMINDERSERVER with 127.0.0.1 If youre using different machine youll have to find out the IP address of your zoneminder. Just use google to see how you can find out the IP address. If you have a GUI (e.g. KDE or gnome) itll be in the control center, if you dont have youll have to use the command line and the command ifconfig.

8. joe said at 20:57 on November 23rd, 2010: Georgi, I did every step but #7 and still cant get it to work. I have posted on zoneminder forums and no one has helped me,. http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16770 http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16696 http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16780

9. Georgi said at 22:13 on November 23rd, 2010: @joe you should definitely get combozola. I had the same thing i.e. blank screen before setting it up properly! You should also have java runtime environment (JRE) installed and enabled in the browser. I myself used Mac OS X to view cameras so it worked out nicely. Try out whether you can get combozola to show you the live feed and let me know.

10. maikel said at 15:06 on March 20th, 2011: Thanks it works for me.!!!! keep on the good works!!!.

11. serdar said at 02:28 on March 28th, 2011: Hopefully, i know how to do thanks to you!

12. Pablo said at 06:13 on May 10th, 2011: I followed all the instructions, installed Java JRE, and combozola. I bring up the web GUI and added a monitor on /dev/video0, NTSC, RGB24, 320240, using Video for Linux versions 1 and 2, but nothing. I just get a blank screen. Im able to see video using: vlc v4l2:///dev/video0 or record via: ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 320240 -i /dev/video0 out.mpg What am I missing?

13. Pablo said at 06:58 on May 10th, 2011: After changing to PAL, now I see Cambozola v0.92-0002 (c) Andy Wilcock, 2010 instead of the video. This is using STREAM_METHOD jpeg. If I change to mpeg, then I get nothing again.

14. Georgi said at 10:36 on May 10th, 2011: Is it possible that you are missing or have disabled JAVA support on the viewers browser?

15. Pablo said at 00:30 on May 11th, 2011: Not likely, tried it from 3 different machines.

16. Pablo said at 05:30 on May 11th, 2011: Ok, I reinstalled everything, changed STREAM_METHOD to jpeg, still using PAL. I have OPT_CAMBOZOLA enabled. When I click on my Monitor, I get No main content type, instead of my video.

17. Pablo said at 05:59 on May 11th, 2011: I was able to get it to work, using uvc_stream -f 7 -r 320240 -p 8082 Every once in a while, the monitor goes black, so I believe I have a memory issue, right?

18. Christian said at 12:11 on August 3rd, 2011: Enter comment here. Wow! I learned so much tonight! And to think that I thought this would be plug and play! Well Im going to do some more reading then roll up my sleeves and give her the old college try thanks for all the pointers and commands!

19. uno2xx said at 09:35 on September 8th, 2011: @joe

@joe try this code user@ubuntu:~$ sudo cp cambozola-*/dist/cambozola.jar /usr/share/zoneminder/ use asterisk as a wildcard. instead of 0.76 because it is the version of cambozola. Leave a Reply
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