Central ZM server on fast link with "zm client"

[somepdguy]

Hi All,

I am using ZM and am really impressed.

I now need to have several people viewing the cameras at the same time. I have the cameras on a linux box on 512/256k ADSL and it can really only handle one or two people looking at it before the link starts slowing down.

Is it possible to install ZM on a central server on a fast link and have the ZM on the ADSL stream the images over to it? Then I could have loads of people viewing it without bogging down the DSL?

Any advice on where to start appriciated!

Pete

[pchan]

ZM is a server based application. Your clients viewing the streams are just regular browsers.

1) If slowdown is due to the bandwidth, then the larger the bandwidth, the more data/images you can push through the pipe. So yes, you can install ZM on a server. In fact, ZM is always installed on the server. ZM is the server.

2) If slowdown is due to CPU load, then you'll need a bigger system. Each stream takes up more system resources. Having a bigger connection won't help you if it's the system that's dragging.

Not exactly sure what you are asking for here. Why or how are you installing ZM on a ADSL (as well as have it installed on a server). Unless there's a ZM client other than browser/live stream viewer, I don't know what you mean by "ZM on the ADSL stream.."

[somepdguy]

Apologies... I have:

1 Linux Box connected directly to 512k/256k ADSL this is running Zoneminder 1.19.2.

1 Linux Server connected to a 100meg feed with nothing on it at the moment but stock apache/php

The installation of Zoneminder is good on the first ADSL connected Linux box with no issues. There is a bandwidth issue because only a few people can view this ZoneMinder installation over 256k - with one person looking at it everything is very good indeed. I need to have upto maybe 10 remote ADSL users monitoring at once?

I guess that the events that are streamed to the client are the files in /www/zm/events/Cam1/*.jpg (or whatever) - I guess what I want to do is keep these directories synced up with the 100 meg connected server and then use cambozola to view that "stream" from the fast server....


So... I want the ZM installation to stream to a faster server which can replay that same stream many times.

Does that make any more sense now?

Thanks, this is quite important to me!


Regards
Pete

[zoneminder]

You can use one ZM box as a remote camer feed into another, you could configure this so both are active ZM boxes or just that the ADSL one is pretty dumb and just in monitor mode. You would need to specify the zms path to the monitor feed as the source of the remote camera.

Phil,