ZoneMinder

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.

= Get the source =

= MySQL =
 * Create a database


 * Import the database schema and base data


 * 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.

= 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

= Configure =

= Apache = PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/zm/includes/functions.php on line 2437
 * Enable PHP short tags if you get the following errors in Apache's error log and in the browser output
 * Set date.timezone in php.ini if the output is full of timezone errors to eg "Europe\London"

=Other= Shared memory: sysctl kernel.shmmax=536870912