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There's a slight problem in that the auditor and filter programs will get run on each host. I think they expect to have exclusive access to the system. So you would need to do something to ensure they are only run on a single host. Other than that, I don't see why you couldn't scale by adding more ...

I've had the best luck using Firefox instead of IE or Chrome. I also use the "jpeg" method, as defined under Options->Images on the Zoneminder page.

Hope this helps!
-- Kevin

modprobe doesn't write conf files to the /etc/modprobe.d directory. You do. It just reads them. If you don't specify any options for the bttv module, then it just uses default values and tries to autodetect the actual card type. After running modprobe bttv, run dmesg, and the end of the output from ...

You need a working zoneminder installation before you can get it working in MythTV. Does the user that's running the zoneminder services have permission to access /dev/video0? Usually this means whatever user is running zoneminder services has to be a member of the "video" group. On my system that ...

I can't offer specific hardware advice, but what I will say, is that going from a BT878 analog capture card to IP cameras will increase the CPU required on the server(s). This is because of the extra overhead of decompressing the compressed video from the IP camera (usually either MJPEG or h.264 ...

Here's a decent writeup on how to configure udev rules:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Device_Filenames_and_udev

It's for MythTV (which I also use), but it applies to ZoneMinder, too.

Hope this helps!
-- Kevin

Well, to answer your original question, how to call php from python, php scripts can be run from the command line, like python scripts (you need the php5-cli package installed). They don't need to be hosted in a web server. So write a small php script that takes as a command line argument the ...

Many ISP's will block incoming connections on port 80. Try running your Apache web server on a different port, like 8080, and then try forwarding port 8080 instead of 80.

Where does 2727 come from? Are you running your web server on port 2727 also?

Actually you don't need the zm daemons running to view recorded events. So using cron to stop and start zm might be the easiest.

Can't you just run a script that copies the events to your dropbox folder, and let the dropbox daemon handle uploading it?

I think the best location for the camera would be in a location where the window would be to the camera's back. Not only will this eliminate the overexposure, it will allow you to get pictures of people's faces lit better. In the current location, the backlighting will cause people's faces to be in ...