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[securitybreach]

I just ran across this extensive guide for setting up your own surveillance system using Linux and Zoneminder:

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The three main reasons for surveillance are security, safety and nosiness. Whether you need a visual check on a sleeping baby, or a video of a stranger putting your cat in a wheelie bin, Zoneminder fits the bill. Zoneminder is a sophisticated camera manager, including support for multiple image sources, motion detection, email alerts, and X10 automation. It supports most V4L (Video for Linux) devices, and can control network IP cameras. The web interface makes it ideal for use on our headless server.

In the following tutorial, we will take you through the process required to build a headless surveillance server which can manage image feeds, upload images to another PC, and is accessible from the internet, even using a mobile phone.

Building the server
For this tutorial, we’ll be using the Zoneminder software package, running on Ubuntu server. For testing purposes, a PC with a P4 or higher, 512MB of RAM, a network connection and a 20GB hard disk should be sufficient. For permanent use, the hardware requirements will depend on a variety of factors, which we will discuss later........

http://www.tuxradar....ance-zoneminder

[amenditman]

Nice how-to article.

Thanks for posting this.

[securitybreach]

No problem

[ichase]

Even available in the AUR I see  

root@ichase01 ~]# yaourt -Ss zoneminder

aur/zoneminder 1.25.0-10 (35)
	Capture, analyse, record and monitor video security cameras.

Install Arch with no gui on a old system and alas, you got yourself a nice handy dandy basic server.  
This is actually something that the wife and I have been considering.

Have you tried it yet Josh?

Edited by ichase, 13 July 2012 - 03:46 PM.

[securitybreach]

ichase, on 13 July 2012 - 03:45 PM, said:

Even available in the AUR I see  

root@ichase01 ~]# yaourt -Ss zoneminder

aur/zoneminder 1.25.0-10 (35)
	Capture, analyse, record and monitor video security cameras.

Install Arch with no gui on a old system and alas, you got yourself a nice handy dandy basic server.  
This is actually something that the wife and I have been considering.

Have you tried it yet Josh?

No I have not but I do plan on it sometime.

[LilBambi]

Cool

Josh, can you remove formatting from the quoted text with the Eraser icon to get it readable, please?

[abarbarian]

Very nice informative article. Shame it won't cook.  

[V.T. Eric Layton]

I don't have anything worth surveilling around me. I guess I could set it up to keep an eye on my outside kitties.