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I'm not sure if this has been asked before or not since it's a weird topic to try to look up through the search.

I have a large site monitored by Zoneminder right now with multiple IP and analog cameras. We are talking about installing some more analog cameras but the issue is physical distance from the ZM box. Is there a way to setup a 2nd remote (or slave) Zoneminder system with it's own capture card so that it can simply capture the analog feed and send it via Ethernet to the master Zoneminder box for analysis and storage?

Essentially, all the recordings will be on the same hard drive and users will only need to connect to one server to view all of the cameras. The whole site is gigabit Ethernet so bandwidth is not an issue and the current ZM box is more than capable to handle additional cameras.

I'd imagine that trying to connect 2 ZM systems to the same database or share the same capture file system would only cause chaos?

Yes it is easy to do . The second box is looked at as a video server . The cameras are picked up by number and appear on the main box as any other ip camera would. In" Remote Host Path " put

/cgi-bin/zms?mode=single&monitor=2&scale=100

" Monitor= " is set to the camera number on your slave box. The resolution must equal the slave and the frames are set to the no more than the slave. The same basic setup as any Ip camera

regards
Allan

Sweet! So the slave box would only need to be in monitor mode and then it can serve the feed no problem. What about authentication though?

No problem my remote runs without authentication, however if you add user=whatever pass=secret word , it will all work . At least it does for me.
new line is now
/cgi-bin/zms?mode=jpeg&monitor=4&user=whatever pass=secret word&scale=100

create a non priviledged account on the ZM slave for the main server and use the user name and password

Regards
Allan