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ZoneMinder - Default branch
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Section: Unix
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| Added: Wed, Sep 25th 2002 08:44 PDT (5 years, 7 months ago) |
Updated: Tue, Apr 29th 2008 03:37 PDT (18 days ago) |
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About:
ZoneMinder is a suite of applications intended for use in video camera security applications, including theft prevention and child or family member monitoring. It supports capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from one or more video or network cameras attached to a Linux system. It also features a user-friendly Web interface which allows viewing, archival, review, and deletion of images and movies captured by the cameras. The image analysis system is highly configurable, permitting retention of specific events, while eliminating false positives. ZoneMinder supports both directly connected and network cameras and is built around the definition of a set of individual 'zones' of varying sensitivity and functionality for each camera. This allows the elimination of regions which should be ignored or the definition of areas which will alarm if various thresholds are exceeded in conjunction with other zones. All management, control, and other functions are supported through the Web interface.
Author:
Philip Coombes [contact developer]
Homepage:
http://www.zoneminder.com/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.zoneminder.com/downloads/ZoneMinder-1.23.3.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://www.zoneminder.com/[..]/index.php/Change_History#Release_1.23.3
Trove categories:
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Dependencies:
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» Rating:
8.83/10.00
(Rank 43)
» Vitality: 0.43% (Rank 321)
» Popularity: 8.01% (Rank 338)
 
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Wow!
by Luigi Semenzato - Mar 16th 2008 22:05:09
(Weird site. I can add a comment, but I can't find other people's comments
on ZoneMinder.)
Well, free software doesn't get any better than this. (OK OK---the Gnu C
Compiler is still king by far, particularly when compared to that quick
hack of a kernel, what is it called? Nullix?) I installed ZoneMinder on
Ubuntu 7.10 server using apt-get on a US$300 pc. It simply ran. To be
fair, I googled "zoneminder install" and read someone's advice
to add user www-data to group video, and as an extra precaution I gave
/dev/video0 mode 666. I have no idea how hard it would have been to debug
any problem arising from lack of permissions.
I don't know what professional video surveillance system should look like,
and by now it's too late to have an unbiased opinion, because ZoneMinder
looks quite complete even for professional installations. I have used it
for two days and with a single camera, on which I set up two zones. It
works amazingly well. I plan on adding more cameras.
The zones make it possible to exclude vegetation, which could trigger
false alarms when windy. I still get false alarms with fast moving
clouds, but they are fairly infrequent, and it doesn't matter since I only
use them for triggering recording events (using MODECT mode). So far I
don't think it's missed any events, even using the lightweight motion
detection algorithm.
The presentation of events and other stored or real-time information is
well thought. The configurability is enormously simplified by the web
interface, which is clear and comprehensive (and if you don't understand
something you don't need to touch it---the defaults so far seem well
guessed).
Of course two days is not enough to really know how well it works. But so
far so good, and I'll be surprised if I run into major problems in the
future. Good job.
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Re: Wow!
by Luigi Semenzato - Mar 16th 2008 22:06:19
All right. I couldn't find any comments because mine is the first? Hard
to believe! :-)
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