From ZoneMinder

This guide is an updated version of "Ubuntu Server 10.10 64-bit with ZoneMinder 1.24.2 from source, FFmpeg, libjpeg-turbo, Webmin, Cambozola" so many thanks for putting it up.

Initial Steps

Install Ubuntu Server Edition 10.10 64-bit. (http://www.ubuntu.com/business/get-ubuntu/download)

Note: The system will run much better if a separate hard drive is used for /var which is where the Zoneminder captured images are stored.

At software selection, select LAMP and OpenSSH server. After install completes, login and become root (this applies to every command referred to in here).

sudo su

Discover what IP address been assigned to the Zoneminder system.

ifconfig

From the output, look at the primary network interface (usually eth0) and take note of the "inet addr" (or IP) address listed (it will be needed for SSH access).

Also learn what your network settings are:

Take note of the "Bcast" (or Broadcast) and "Mask" (or Netmask) addresses.

Then:

netstat -r

Take note of the "Destination" (or Network) and "Gateway" addresses (only numbers).

Next, access the Zoneminder system through SSH, from a Terminal window on another Linux (or Mac) computer on your LAN.

Get to this guide from the desired computer, open Terminal and type:

ssh ubuntuserver_username_here@IP_address_of_ubuntu_server

Press Enter, and type 'yes' and enter your password when prompted.

Once logged in through SSH, set a static IP address so that DHCP never changes it.

nano /etc/network/interfaces

Copy and paste the text bellow and edit the addresses according to your network settings notated earlier.

Note: The settings here apply to the primary network interface, other than the addresses (and "eth0" if it is not different from yours) everything should follow the format bellow.

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.10
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1

Use Ctrl-o to save and Ctrl-x to exit nano.

Restart the interface.

ifdown eth0

ifup eth0

Update system software.

apt-get update

apt-get dist-upgrade

reboot

Note: Multiple commands without an empty line in between can be copied and pasted together.

Install prerequisites from repositories (you can copy and paste all the text within the dashed area).

aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` automake perl libauthen-pam-perl \
libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmysqlclient-dev \
libarchive-zip-perl libdate-manip-perl libdevice-serialport-perl libjpeg62 libmime-perl libstdc++6 libwww-perl \
zlib1g zip unzip patch ntp openssl libpcre3-dev libssl-dev libjpeg-progs libcurl4-gnutls-dev munin munin-node libmime-lite-perl \
netpbm libbz2-dev subversion yasm libnet-ssleay-perl libauthen-pam-perl libio-pty-perl apt-show-versions git-core \ 
mysql-server mysql-client ant

Optimize GCC compiler.

export CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" && \
export CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" && \
export CPPFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

Install Webmin

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.550/webmin_1.550_all.deb?use_mirror=voxel

mv webmin_1.550_all.deb\?use_mirror\=voxel webmin_1.550_all.deb && \
dpkg -i webmin_1.550_all.deb

Install libjpeg-turbo (AMD64)

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libjpeg-turbo/1.1.0/libjpeg-turbo_1.1.0_amd64.deb?use_mirror=voxel

mv libjpeg-turbo_1.1.0_amd64.deb?use_mirror=voxel libjpeg-turbo_1.1.0_amd64.deb && \
dpkg -i libjpeg-turbo_1.1.0_amd64.deb

ln -s /opt/libjpeg-turbo/lib/libjpeg.a /usr/lib/libjpeg.a && \
ln -s /opt/libjpeg-turbo/include/jconfig.h /usr/include/jconfig.h && \
ln -s /opt/libjpeg-turbo/include/jerror.h /usr/include/jerror.h && \
ln -s /opt/libjpeg-turbo/include/jmorecfg.h /usr/include/jmorecfg.h && \
ln -s /opt/libjpeg-turbo/include/jpeglib.h /usr/include/jpeglib.h

Configure Lib Paths

echo "/opt/libjpeg-turbo/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libjpeg-turbo.conf && \
echo "/usr/local/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ffmpeg.conf && \
echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/opt/libjpeg-turbo/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> /etc/bash.bashrc && \
echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> /etc/bash.bashrc

ldconfig

Install Perl Modules

perl -MCPAN -e shell

install CPAN

exit

perl -MCPAN -e shell

install YAML PHP::Serialization Module::Load X10::ActiveHome

install Sys::Mmap

install DBI

install DBD::mysql

exit

Install FFmpeg

cd /usr/src && git clone git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git

cd /usr/src/ffmpeg/ && ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-pthreads

make

make install

make install-libs

cd /lib && ln -s /usr/local/lib/libswscale.so.0 && \
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.52 && \
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.52 && \
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.50 && \
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavdevice.so.52

ldconfig

Install Zoneminder

apt-get install zoneminder

Link Zoneminder to the apache configuration

sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf

Configure Zoneminder mysql database access

mysql -u root -p < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql

Note: The password that is requested here is the Mysql root password that was entered during install, not your ubuntu password.

mysql -u root -p

grant select,insert,update,delete on zm.* to 'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass';

quit

mysqladmin -p reload

Install Cambozola

cd /usr/src && wget http://www.charliemouse.com:8080/code/cambozola/cambozola-latest.tar.gz

tar -xzvf cambozola-latest.tar.gz

replace xx with cambozola version downloaded

cp cambozola-*/dist/cambozola.jar /usr/share/zoneminder

Add the video group to the www-data user (under which apache runs), so it can access the video devices

adduser www-data video

Configure capture card(s)

NOTE: As of the time of the writing, if your are using the bttv 878 card, it will only work with kernel 2.6.35-28-server, (the newer kernel 2.6.38-8-server did not load it) this may affect other cards as well. This applies to the 8 channel card that have the bttv 878 chipset (which is very popular) sold by Camsecure, et al.

(This is what I had to do get my cards working, it took me many hours of googling; this is beyond my level of expertise.)

Create /etc/modprobe.d/bttv-card.conf.

(Note: The "bttv-card" name is arbritrary but it does need to end in the .conf extention).

nano /etc/modprobe.d/bttv-card.conf

Copy and paste the following text:

options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102 radio=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 tuner=4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4
chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2 full_luma_range=1 coring=1 autoload=0

Use Ctrl-o to save and Ctrl-x to exit nano

Reboot the computer to apply changes.

reboot

Check that the cards are successfully loaded.

ls /dev

If you see video0, video1, video2, video3, etc, your cards are ready for use. (The numbers depend on the number of channels on the card(s)).

Final setps:

Check that the zoneminder service automatically starts (this assumes you didn’t manually started it via command line).

1. In firefox, go to https://YOUR_ZoneMinder.IP.ADDRESS.HERE:1000 to reach the Webmin interface.(Login with Ubuntu username and password).

2. In left menu, select System>Bootup and Shutdown. Look for a ‘yes’ next to the zoneminder service.

Note: The purpose of showing this is that you can control and see the services on the ubuntu server from a handy Web interface. For Zoneminder to work properly, apache and msql need to be running as well.

Getting started with Zoneminder

Go to http://YOUR_ZoneMinder.IP.ADDRESS.HERE/zm to reach the Zoneminder interface.

If everything went well, the Zoneminder console will load where you can configure your cameras.

To do:

- setup a script that will automatically delete old files in the zoneminder event folder (if this wasn't fixed in a later version, that folder will just get bigger and bigger until there is no more space in the hard drive and the system will become unresponsive until some space is freed up).

- create and configure cameras from the Zoneminder console

- setup user authentication to access the Zoneminder console

- Optimize Zoneminder (JPEG streaming, video generation, etc)

- get Zoneminder working with HTTPS

- make the Zoneminder machine accessible from the Internet

- use free service offered by DynDNS.org

- use ddclient from repository

- setup firewall (ufw)

Last edited May 5 2011