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1st Impressions
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 3:10 pm
by Acewiza
Awesome, just awesome. After a few days ironing out the kinks, I'm almost ready to demote my Synology NAS to a cold storage box. Of course ZM is a bit hairy around the edges, but what complex software pkg isn't? In terms of pure functionality and ease of use, ZM simply blows Surveillance Station away.
Freedom from proprietary software is just one service away, if I can manage to successfully migrate my Wordpress site...
http://stuff.is-a-geek.net/wordpress/in ... s-covered/
Re: 1st Impressions
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:58 am
by Trevor-WA
I am pleased for you, and that is the type of post I would hope to make. What directions/link did you use-maybe I can use similar. Cheers
Re: 1st Impressions
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 2:41 pm
by Acewiza
I used the non-docker with Debian 10. I have it working correctly in the default install alongside my Wordpress site, but hit a speedbump moving it to a virtual server on an alternate port for security purposes. I works, sort of, but I can't seem to find a missing Apache config to enable some of the window dressing (menu colors, montage, etc.)
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_10_B ... om_ZM_Repo
Re: 1st Impressions
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 6:52 pm
by burger
Dedicated machine is easiest for ZM. Not required, but easier.
Re: 1st Impressions
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:16 pm
by Acewiza
ZM does seem to be fairly resource-hungry, but this is a 2nd gen Ryzen 7/27 with 32Gb RAM, so capacity is no issue.
What's the consensus around here for upgrades? Haven't been around long enough to sense the churn rate. Leave it alone for awhile, or try to stay on the bleeding edge? Could it be as simple as changing the version number in sources?
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Re: 1st Impressions
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 3:15 pm
by Magic919
The bleeding edge stuff is not 1.34, it’s 1.35.
Re: 1st Impressions
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:01 pm
by Acewiza
So what's most people running? ...and why?
Re: 1st Impressions
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 7:29 pm
by Acewiza
So after playing with this for a couple weeks I have to say I am quite pleased - cannot really find ANYTHING wrong with it. It just seems so much easier and more intuitive to work with than Surveillance Station. The only issue I've run into is with securing it. Ironic, huh?
Passwords are nice, but I was unable to figure out a way to correctly serve it on port 81. I can setup a virtual server and comment out the 2nd alias in zoneminder.conf, restart things and it runs, sort of. Detect and Record works fine, and it even displays montage in freeform, but that's about it. Pages appear askew, no colors, etc.
Anybody knows the trick to alternate listening port on Apache virtual server, let me know. Otherwise, this thing hits nice.
Re: 1st Impressions
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 6:54 am
by jperkins
Code: Select all
/etc/apache2/sites-available$ cat zoneminder.conf | sed s/redacted/domain/g
<VirtualHost *:81>
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias zoneminder.domain.com
ServerAlias zoneminder
ServerAdmin jim@domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/zoneminder
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/zoneminder_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/zoneminder.log combined
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =zoneminder [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =zoneminder.domain.com
RewriteRule ^/$ http://zoneminder.domain.com:81/zm/ [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
The RewriteEngine lines allow you to 'forget' to put the port number in the url and apache will redirect you to the proper port.
Install details --> ubuntu 18.04 native(non docker) install on KVM VM using retired enterprise class hardware
Re: 1st Impressions
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 2:23 pm
by Acewiza
Yeah, listening on 81 is no problem. Nice little bit of config there, tho...