ZoneMinder Forums

Hi, I was looking for a cheap and simple way to set up a monitoring camera and I had the idea of attatching one to an Xbox. As some of you may know, an XBOX is basically a small PC, it has a LAN network interface, hard drive, and the controller ports are irregularly shaped USB.

The camera is to go in an outdoor location and I will not be able to connect it to the network we have nearby, the only power source is an enclosed outdoor power meter, it's big enough to put an Xbox in and has a mains socket inside.

So I was wondering if the Zoneminder software would run on an Xbox. Here are some of the specifications:

CPU: Intel Pentium III 733-MHz
Graphics processor: 233-MHz, custom-designed X-Chip
Total memory: 64MB of RAM (unified memory architecture)
Memory bandwidth: 6.4GB/second
Storage medium: 2X to 5X DVD, 8GB hard disk
Ethernet (10/100)

I hope it would work because it would be a perfect solution. I am looking to catch people dumping rubbish and fine them, so hopefully it will pay for itself

I think you can probably get something going on it. The main issue is memory but if you limit yourself to small numbers of ZM buffers and cap the frame rate at 5fps or less I would think you could get a couple of cameras on there assuming they are USB and you have drivers for them.

Phil