ZoneMinder

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ZoneMinder is a system to provide monitoring, logging and a browser based interface to security cameras. As of this writing, there is no ebuild (there used to be one.) It can support multiple V4L and network connected devices with a clear uncluttered interface in any browser.

Warning

It can be tricky to get working to your satisfaction. This is a blow by blow summary of an install from source on my system, you will probably need to get some more sources of information

Note

Check out overlay zugaina for package www-misc/zoneminder - this may simplify your compilation

Get the source

root # cd /usr/src
root # wget http://www2.zoneminder.com/downloads/ZoneMinder-1.25.0.tar.gz
root # tar xzvf ZoneMinder-1.25.0.tar.gz

Configure

user $ ./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/localhost/htdocs/zm --with-cgidir=/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin CPPFLAGS=-D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS --use-mmap=no |make |make install

Note

--prefix=/usr/local by default - probably best to leave as is to avoid conflicting with Portage controlled stuff

Note

No Sys::Mmap in Portage hence --use-mmap=no

Note

CPPFLAGS needed to compile ffmpeg modules

MySQL

• Create a database

user $ mysql -p

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mysql> create database zm;
mysql> exit;

• Import the database schema and base data, the .sql script is created by the configure phase above, so make sure you do that first.

user $ mysql -p zm < /usr/src/Zoneminder-<version>/db/zm_create.sql

• Create a MySQL user for ZM to use. If you change the user and/or password from the defaults here, then make sure you set those in the source configure phase.

user $ mysql -p

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mysql> use zm;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed
mysql> grant select,insert,update,delete on zm.* to 'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass';Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Dependencies

This is the Perl module checking from configure. You'll have to add any missing ones yourself.

checking for perl... perl
checking for perl version greater than or equal to 5.6.0... ok
checking for perl module Sys::Syslog... ok
checking for perl module DBI... ok
checking for perl module DBD::mysql... ok
checking for perl module Getopt::Long... ok
checking for perl module Time::HiRes... ok
checking for perl module Date::Manip... ok
checking for perl module LWP::UserAgent... ok
checking for perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker... ok
checking for perl module Module::Load... ok
checking for perl module Device::SerialPort... ok
checking for perl module Net::FTP... ok
checking for perl module Net::SFTP::Foreign... no
configure: WARNING: Net::SFTP::Foreign is required for automatic event uploading using sftp
checking for perl module Expect... ok
checking for perl module Archive::Tar... ok
checking for perl module Archive::Zip... ok
checking for perl module Net::SMTP... ok
checking for perl module MIME::Lite... ok
checking for perl module MIME::Entity... ok
checking for perl module X10::ActiveHome... no
configure: WARNING: X10::ActiveHome is required for X.10 support

Note

dev-perl/net-sftp has quite a few deps and does not seem to include Net::SFTP::Foreign

Note

There are no X10 modules in Portage

Apache

• Enable PHP short tags if you get the following errors in Apache's error log and in the browser output

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected $end in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/zm/includes/functions.php on line 2437

• Set date.timezone in php.ini if the output is full of timezone errors to eg "Europe\London"

root # eselect php list apache2

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  [1]   php5.3 *
  [2]   php5.4

File/etc/php/apache2-php5.3/php.iniSnippet from php.ini for Apache

short_open_tag = On
date.timezone = "Europe/London"

Other

Shared memory:

sysctl kernel.shmmax=536870912