Raspberry PI Notes (Zoneminder)

Using the raspberry camera module to setup zoneminder run:

# apt-get install zoneminder

this takes about 2 hours. From a remote machine http wasnt working so I did this:

# sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf

and restarted apache

# service apache2 restart

Now I can see the zm page at: http://192.168.2.21/zm/index.php

following instrucitons from

http://redlegoman.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/using-raspberry-pi-camera-module-with.html

I downloaded vlc:

# apt-get install vlc

rebooted then streamed the video to a network port from a non privileged user:

$ raspivid -o - -t 9999999 -w 320 -h 240  | cvlc -vvv stream:///dev/stdin --sout '#rtp{sdp=rtsp://192.168.2.21:8554/pi.sdp}' :demux=h264

In zoneminder set up a new monitor and add the following as the source path:

rtsp://192.168.2.21:8554/pi.sdp

In general the source type needs to be ffmpeg and the capture width and height is 320/240 resp.

I left everything else default

Raspberry  PI Notes (camera module)

Stream video to a remote machine using nc and the on board camera module.

1. plug in camera and enable camera via the raspi-config, no other software is needed at this stage

2. On the remote viewing pc install mplayer (I used brew install mplayer) and run the receipt cache - a mplayer screen will pop up with the video when a stream is received:

# nc -l 5001 | mplayer -fps 40 -cache 2024 -

3.  On the raspberry run the video stream:

# raspivid -rot 180 -t 200000 -o - | nc 192.168.2.18 5001