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Hi All

I am looking at including ZM into my (automated) house.

What I want to achieve is a channel for each camera on the TV. I also would like to get a montage of all cameras on the TV's.

A channel for each camera is fairly easy with one that has a composite output and a modulator (one for each), but I am not sure on the best way to deal with IP cameras and the montage.

The other option is to have one channel and then use the automation system to switch between the camera views.

There are four TV's in the house so it would be possible to use a cheap inexpensive device behind each TV (RasberryPi?) that could be used as a "client/viewer"

Whatever the result, it has to be easy for the handbrake (wife) to use and navigate.

Mick

I currently utilize Homeseer / Homeseer Touch to view my cameras on the Touchscreens. I am "testing" an embedded VLC window in my touchscreens for better views.

I am starting to play with newer gen Megapixel cams and testing HDMI streaming via VLC out to the TV's. Works fine.

This takes the House TV (now HDMI) to security cams (now megapixel) to a whole different world.

It is much nicer than analog streaming and you will need to invest in HDMI distribution mechanisms.

So basically the core would be:

A capable box that would do multiple streams of HDMI out to and HDMI distribution box. (ZM will work). Testing with very small footprint core duo boxes with HDMI out. (IE: Aopen MiniPC's), mITX D525 Atom and Asus AMD E35. Also been testing XBMC Zoneminder plugin which works well. I did read something about XBMC for the RasberryPi somewhere/some place.

Here's a VLC stream running on a 34" LCD in the home office. The family room LCD works the same way but due to WAF only testing now in the office.



Here's a snapshot of the Touchscreen application running streaming from ZM.



Here a 4 streaming ZM composite touchscreen picture.

Raspberry released a new board camera, 5MP omni vision OV5647 kit. After reading your post, I'm trying to understand the hardware/software requirements to setup 5 cameras with hdmi streaming to a single display and motion recording to a zone minder server or nvr. Any suggestions would be a great help.