CCTV server with Ubuntu and Zoneminder

Written by baddoel on October 16, 2009 Categories: operating system

Here are the results of copy paste from linuxpasuruan.wordpress about how to install CCTV Server using Ubuntu and Zoneminder. Where to use Distro Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06.1 LTS server because the installation process very easy and the support from Canonical old.

The first step after installing the Base System without X-Window is to provide a static IP and setting host.conf

wisu@cctv:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.202
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

wisu@cctv:~$ cat /etc/hosts | grep cctv
192.168.1.202 cctv.bigwisu.com cctv

after that we need the following additional module2, before I enable repository mulitverse, universe and backports

wisu@cctv:~$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libarchive-tar-perl libarchive-zip-perl libdate-manip-perl libdevice-serialport-perl
wisu@cctv:~$ sudo apt-get install libjpeg62 libmime-perl libstdc++6 libunwind7 libwww-perl zlib1g

Next we download *.deb zoneminder from the following website northern-ridge.com.au

wisu@cctv:~$ wget ftp://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/ubuntu/dapper/zoneminder_1.22.3-8_i386.deb

When finished downloading, I install with the command

wisu@cctv:~$ sudo dpkg -i zoneminder_1.22.3-8_i386.deb

In the installation process there is some module that needs to be added, for that I do command

wisu@cctv:~$ sudo apt-get -f install

Automatically all the dependencies installed by itself.

After all the packages I installed do the setup for apache configuration

wisu@cctv:~$ sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf
wisu@cctv:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

Users running Ubuntu Zoneminder is www-data, so that an application can access the device Capture Card. And the cameras we also need to add the user www-data to the video group.

wisu@cctv:~$ sudo adduser www-data video

Furthermore zoneminder interface can be accessed through

http://IP_ADDRESS_CCTV_SYSTEM/zm

From this interface the first step we do is add the Camera

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Next choose how Zoneminder record video from camera

Options

In this case we can choose Motion Detect, which will Zoneminder only record video when there is movement.

Motion Detect feature can be configured Zoneminder to select a specific area of the image that will trigger recording.