Is there a package for zoneminder in the std repos (base, rpmfusion, epel), or just on rpmforge? mark "unless someone's got a security DVR to loan us for testing...."
On 02/05/2014 04:58 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> Is there a package for zoneminder in the std repos (base, rpmfusion, > epel), or just on rpmforge? > > mark "unless someone's got a security DVR to loan us for testing...." >There is one "zoneminder" package 1.24.4 in nux-desktop repository, 1.25 in puias-unsupported and "mythzoneminder" 0.26 in rpmfusion-free-updates and in atrpms-stable -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:58 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:> Is there a package for zoneminder in the std repos (base, rpmfusion, > epel), or just on rpmforge? > > mark "unless someone's got a security DVR to loan us for testing...."Should be relatively easy to make their virtual machine run under virtualbox or kvm if you don't have something running ESXi (and the necessary windows console client) already. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
On 02/05/2014 07:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:> You could spend your budget on IP cameras and not need to worry about > hardware connections or where the server sits. If your old system > works with IP cameras you could probably use the same approach - run > it under an OS that works in a VM somewhere and treat it like an > appliance. >The caution with IP cameras and zoneminder together is the significant increase in CPU load due to zm's transcoding, with MJPEG cameras in particular. I'm running a zm here with a few older IP cams on VMware ESX and had to drop the framerate each time I added a camera due to the CPU load. And the load of just storing the individual JPEG files is pretty significant if you record.