Mixed hardware

[BiloxiGeek]

I've got two zoneminder setups right now.

My old rig is 3 analog cameras on a capture card I got from bluecherry. It's running SL6.5 and zm 1.27.0. Works great, no problems.

The new rig is 6 IP cameras (two of them not yet installed or working). SL6.5 and zm 1.27.0. Again works great, no problems.

I'm trying to figure out how to make this into one zoneminder setup. Is there an easy configuration so the new rig can pull images/streams from the cameras on the other zm system?

I did have a thought to possibly stream the analog cameras from the old system to the network, effectively making them IP cameras by using the computer and linux to serve the streams to the network. But I need to research how to do that since I've never tried it before. It seems like this would be preferable since I wouldn't have to maintain two separate zm installs.

Anyone got some advice/tips/tricks?

P.S. It's not feasible to move the capture card and cameras into the new system, cabling distances and that sort of thing would be a nightmare.

[hesral]

you can set up a new monitor on your main server, using
http://IPADDRESS/nph-zms?mode=jpeg&moni ... =[PASSWORD]
as source. It will then be easiest to record events on your main server, and just set up the monitors on the slave server as "monitor"
I have gone for another approach, because all my computer hardware is low on memory and cpu. I have made a webpage on another server, with links to the watch monitor pages. This would be the addresses of the links at the far left on the console screen. That way my coworkers get easy access to the last events, and the zoneminder servers get to do less work.

[BiloxiGeek]

Thanks. Had to change the path slightly but I got it working.

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/cgi-bin/zm/nph-zms?mode=jpeg&monitor=1&user=[USER]&pass=[PASS]

Still hoping that someone has a pointer to how to set up a video stream from a /dev/video0 type analog camera so zm can access it like it's an IP camera. Looking at the documentation for live555 and ffmpeg. One or both of those seems to be able to do it, I just gotta figure the right secret sauce to make it happen.

[linuxsense]

You can use VLC to turn /dev/video into an RTSP stream, I ran across a lot of examples of doing that a few months back, most were about streaming a local webcam so you might want to use those keywords in your search.