ZoneMinder on laptop

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kubota2550
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ZoneMinder on laptop

Post by kubota2550 »

I need to make a "portable" security system that I can easily move around to look at different areas of suspicious activity. I would like to use a laptop (it can be easily secured). Does anyone have any experience with a ZoneMinder compatible capture card with USB or PCMCIA connections suitable for a laptop?
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Knobee
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Re: ZoneMinder on laptop

Post by Knobee »

kubota2550 wrote:I need to make a "portable" security system that I can easily move around to look at different areas of suspicious activity. I would like to use a laptop (it can be easily secured). Does anyone have any experience with a ZoneMinder compatible capture card with USB or PCMCIA connections suitable for a laptop?
It should work fine with any USB camera that is supported by video4linux. I've not run it on a laptop per-se, but the devices I've used would connect to a laptop just fine.

Best bet: give it a try!

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Flash_
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Post by Flash_ »

IP cameras? Then the laptop can be entirely wireless.

(I take a wifi laptop around our site when adjusting angles etc. Although it's not hosting ZM itself, there's no reason why it couldn't given cpu/hdd)
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