ZoneMinder
Free and open source closed circuit camera suite for premises security for home and business.
What is ZoneMinder?
ZoneMinder is a free video camera security application suite, designed for low cost DIY video security including commercial or home CCTV, theft prevention and child or family member monitoring including nanny cam applications. It supports capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from cameras attached to a Linux system. Motion detection, emailed alerts and remote viewing are also supported.
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- LicensingOpen Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 1.8
- Alternatives46 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 4,084 Stars
- 1,085 Forks
- 128 Open Issues
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Tags
- Video Streaming
- spy-cam
- surveillance
- video-security
- webcam-monitoring
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Video & MoviesRecent user activities on ZoneMinder
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Mr_N0b0dy added ZoneMinder as alternative(s) to UniFi Protect
Far too complicated to set up. I gave up even trying to start setting it up by reading through their Wiki. The guides there are outdated, confusingly written and jump from one topic to another without explaining it in depth enough for beginners of this software to set up. Sadly seems like the only good option left when it comes to free surveillance software tho and yet I can't use it...
It might be a good app, but like others have said, it is difficult to get running and the instructions always leave something out, like it's assumed you already understand database management. I've tried this on Debian 10, and Manjaro. Manjaro seems like an easier process, but there is not much documentation or how to videos. Maybe Ubuntu is better, but I'm giving up on Zone Minder. I'd be better off paying for something than wasting a bunch of hours going in circles. It seems to be easier to install on Gentoo, but Gentoo is in itself an extremely involved process. Can't win. I'm going to try Shinobi now.
Feels archaic and is a pain in the ass to configure, but it's by far the most stable solution I've used so far (Linux).
(Linux OS) Setting up ZM is not for the faint of heart. First off, it's all web/browser based and has a lot of dependencies (apache, MySQL, etc.) If the web page doesn't display you'll have to resort to command-line configuration editing, which is painstaking due to the way the software is designed. Secondly, the camera image files are saved deep within subdirectories making them difficult to find when not using the web-based GUI.
I'd love to find a similar alternative for Linux (have one for Windows--iSpy).
Here is an alternative answering your woes 3 years later. Not as robust yet, but getting there. https://moeiscool.github.io/Shinobi/
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