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Hello. Any XBMC users out there? I have been working on writing a plugin to interface zoneminder into xbmc so that I can view my cameras on my home TV and was wondering if anyone else was interested. If so, I would like to discuss you zm setup and get you a copy to do some testing.

Thanks
Tim

Hello Tim-

Im interested on trying your plugin, I currently have some boxes with XBMC and ZM 1.24.

I can do some testing if you want.

Saludos!

Drema

Glad to hear you are interested. I'll shoot you a PM with some details and get some info from you. Thanks

Tim

I've got XBMC running on my AppleTV and I can probably throw together a couple cameras for ZM at home.

quietas

Great, if you can PM me your email address I'll send you something over

Thanks
tim-

Hi tim-,

If I'm able to, I'd like to help out anyway I can. I have a number of televisions scattered throughout the house, all accompanied by an xbox for viewing our tv recordings and other media.

I gave up trying to view the zoneminder cameras via the xbox (I encountered buffer and resource issues) and instead went with what I know, outputting the zoneminder display via TV-out and passing it to a UHF converter, then propogating it through our antenna system. This works well if you're watching television (PIP and easy access to channel 0 on all televisions), however if the xbox is in use, it would be better to be able to instantaneously pull up the zoneminder display with the xbox remote!

My zoneminder install is running on Debian Lenny, in a Xen DomU (virtual machine). I also have T3CH XBMC 2009-06-01 9.04.1-FIXED-Babylon running on each xbox, but I'm contemplating rolling back a version (or upgrading to an svn version) as the xbox's tend to lock up every so often (they run in 720p with high resolution wallpapers as the default screensaver).

Voltage54

Thanks for the reply. That is one of the things I am hoping to test (xbox and atv) as I dont have access to either. Up to this point everything has been tested against Windows and Linux installs of XBMC. I am going to make a quick change so that you can alter the bitrate and fps to see if that will help on these boxes. I'll shoot you a PM with some details and get you a copy to test.

Thanks
tim-

Also there are versions for Windows, OSX, Ubuntu, and a liveCD.

http://xbmc.org/download/

hi
i m facing the same problem i want to view my mobotix cameras from tv
1st thought was to use

cameras(Mobotix )->zoneminder->mythzoneminder->appletv ->LCD

but i face hell lot of issues in configuring
1) cameras with zoneminder
2) zoneminder with mythtv
and now mythtv with apple tv

now i just want to bypass myth tv altogether and try to somehow connect zoneminder with apple tv so f u guys figure this out using xbox plz do tell me
thanks

Regards
Alauddin

For XBMC I just created a playlist called camera.m3u and put it in ~/.xbmc/userdata/playlists/video/. If I want to show the camera I just open this via Videos. To support more cameras, add more playlists.
This URL of course varies per camera but this works for my Level1 FCS-5030.