The UK Home Automation Archive

Archive Home
Group Home
Search Archive


Advanced Search

The UKHA-ARCHIVE IS CEASING OPERATIONS 31 DEC 2024


[Message Prev][Message Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Message Index][Thread Index]

Re: Re: CCTV Question



Ian Lowe wrote:

> > There's always zoneminder...
>
> Well. If you are a real penguin head yeah - I tried (and failed) to
get
> ZM working at all.


I have to agree that the install can sometimes be a bit
"involved".
Someone has set up a yum repository for fedora core 3 though. I found
that to be very nearly turnkey. Also, the support forums are full of
useful folks...

> It's one of those great projects where you can see a lot of potential,
> but the documentation is just soooooo far beyond the intended audience
> that it's downright scary. You start following the install HOWTO, only
> to find there's a bunch of dependencies not actually mentioned in the
> howto...


There's a live CD available...

> It's also really unclear whether you can run zoneminder headless as a
> CCTV "server" or whether it needs to run as an active
process in an
> X-session.


Absolutely a server type application.

Jim




UKHA_D Main Index | UKHA_D Thread Index | UKHA_D Home | Archives Home

Comments to the Webmaster are always welcomed, please use this contact form . Note that as this site is a mailing list archive, the Webmaster has no control over the contents of the messages. Comments about message content should be directed to the relevant mailing list.