Topic: zoneminder

[Tib]

Has anyone still got the going on there server?

I have just purchased 3 IP Cameras and would like to run the monitoring through SME.

Does anyone has a howto to get this working on SME ... I have done searches and have only found old posts and a lot of dead links.

Regards,

Tib

[David Harper]

There's some stuff in Ray Mitchell's area that might be of use.

[Tib]

Thanks David

I just found that earlier ... but the  kernel-module is old ... was hoping someone had an up to date one.

Might try and get onto Ray and see if he has or will update it.

Regards,

Tib

[David Harper]

A quick Google search suggests that the kernel in the CentOS Plus repository (kernel-2.6.9-78.0.13.plus.c4.i686.rpm) has the bttv driver compiled into it.

I would run some tests first though before thinking about it for production use, though. Obviously it is not a supported SME Server configuration.

[christian]

Another way to do this that works simply for me. I installed ZM from the LiveCD version as a VMWare guest. I've done the same with MythTV (Master backend) and a few other apps as well. Really keeps life simple for me.

[Bud]

christian please help

how do you install the zm livecd on the vm machine

any help greatly appreciated

[David Harper]

http://wiki.contribs.org/Vmware

Then install from your ZM livecd as per the VMWare Guest Operating System Guide.

[Tib]

I would suggest ... sign up and download vmware 2 and install that one

copy it to /op with winscp

mind you the way I did it is ... copy the file to an ibay ... then do a move with winscp.

For some reason winscp copies files really slow for me ... haven't sat down to figure it out yet.

then

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yum install /opt/VMware-server-2.0.0-122956.i386.rpm smeserver-vmware-server --enablerepo=smecontribs
then

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vmware-config.pl
I chose all defaults except for where the virtual machines are kept ... I want mine in /opt

then

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signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
you don't have to do anything else except access you vmware admin through

http://ip.of.your.server:8308/ui/

Really good for testing SME contribs etc as well.

ohh and if you get stuck on setting up an SME in vmware so you can access it on your lan as well as have it access the internet let me know ... there is a really good trick.

I will do a bit of a how to ... it took my a couple of hrs to figure it out ... so it might help others not waste so much time learning.

Regards,

Tib

[christian]

copy it to /op with winscp

Tib,
I'm not really sure why you are doing this. I don't think it matters where you install from as non of the installed components end up in the directory you install from. They go into their places in the linux hierarchy.

The rest of the steps are the same as the how-to except for you choice of where you store your data. I think it is better to point people to the how-to instead of re-documenting the steps so as not to confuse others in the future as procedures change.

I agree with using VMWare 2.

[Tib]

christian

I see your point with re documenting ... But I have a habit of always wget and copy files into opt and installing from there instead of /root location when winscp starts ... a lot cleaner that way I found doing things from /root can get messy and you could accidentally delete files you were not meant to.

Maybe as a rule people should create an install dir just for this point ... advanced users might be fine the way they do things but for a newbi it could lead to problems.

I just wanted to simplify the install for him.

I know that packages install to where ever the package is meant to.

Regards,

Tib

[christian]

I usually just install from my user account.