Originally under Jaunty 9.04 but managed to get the little blighter to work on Karmic after a fight..
Under System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager,
click on the box for Apache2 and go down to "Mark for complete removal" This is what "allegedly" removes the config files as well.
Go further down the list and do the same for MySql, MySql server, MySql core and Zoneminder.
Then close your eyes, put your fingers in your ears and click on "Apply" presumably with your elbow as your fingers are otherwise engaged.
You are absolutely right! when I used Synaptic, it was 1.23.1 that loaded, now it's 1.24.thingy!
When that's all finished, and you've cleared the smoke from the computer, restart it, use Synaptic (as above) and get it to install libdirac (this is because it's now ZM1.24.thingy).
After that, use the manager again to install Zoneminder.
As it's doing it's thing, it should tell you that it's installing:
Apache2
Apache2-mpm-prefork
libapache--mod-php5
mysql-server
mysql-server-core
php5
php5-mysql
zoneminder....
with any luck.
This new version is a little bit of a b*gg*r to set up
On each camera ('cos you have to set everything up from scratch!)
for each source (camera), in the general tab set the max fps and alarm max fps to 5 frames per sec.
Set the function to modetect for green -hopefully or monitor for orange.
In the Source tab:
Device path: /dev/video0.... as usual
Capture method: Video for Linux 2
Device channel: 0 (for the first one, 1 for the second camera etc)
Device format: I use "PAL I" 'cos I'm in Blighty
Capture Pallette: RGB565 worked best for me
Width 320
Height 240
On the right hand side of the main console click "Options > Config"
Half way down
untick VL4_MULTI_BUFFER as it gives some wierd video if you don't
On the left of the main console it should say 4 monitors (if you've set 4 up). Click on it and click on "NEW"
call the group whatever you want and add the cameras to that group. Remember to select that group after saving, and apply - this should get the pictures to come up on the events window (a bug).
Give that a go
This is assuming that etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf is still there - it should be -even after a complete uninstall
If not, just make a new one with the following text: (this is for the card in question)
options bttv gbuffers=32 card=77 tuner=4 radio=0 coring=1 full_luma_range=1 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=1 autoload=0 triton1=0 vsfx=0
which is pasted straight out of the instructions at:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... _interface
As for the question about the configuration, that's when you have to compile zoneminder e.g. downloading zoneminder 1.23.1 .deb package and use the ./configure command:
The original instructions were:
./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/zm --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin --with-webuser=www-data --with-webgroup=www-data
which I think was wrong..
My own idea would be :
./configure --with-webdir=/usr/share/zoneminder --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin --with-webuser=www-data --with-webgroup=www-data
But thankfully you don't have to do that if you use Synaptic...
