CCTV: Build your own video surveillance system with ZoneMinder

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00:00 Intro
00:47 PC Components
01:14 ZoneMinder Setup Options
01:36 Downloading the Software
03:01 Copying ZoneMinder (TurnKey Linux) on to a USB Stick
03:46 Booting from a USB Stick
06:27 Installing ZoneMinder (TurnKey Linux)
08:07 Creating Accounts
09:24 Logging in as root
09:36 Setting a Static IP Address for ZoneMinder
11:07 TurnKey Linux Configuration Console
12:14 TurnKey ZoneMinder Control Panel
13:08 Web Shell
13:46 Webmin
14:41 ZoneMinder
15:14 Adding a USB Webcam
20:18 Adding an IP (Internet Protocol) Camera
30:27 Adding a Raspberry Pi Network Camera
56:07 Adding an Android IP Camera
1:02:35 Capturing Audio
1:03:18 ZoneMinder Web Interface
1:12:22 Zones
1:14:31 Accessing ZoneMinder Over the Internet
1:17:45 Email Alerts
1:22:55 Backing up ZoneMinder
1:29:59 Restoring a Backup
1:33:09 The End
Would you like to turn a standard PC into a versatile surveillance hub? In this video we'll do precisely that by installing TurnKey Linux's ZoneMinder Appliance.
We'll then add and configure four different types of camera (including sound, if required/supported):
* USB webcam
* IP (network) camera
* Raspberry Pi camera
* Android smartphone camera
After familiarising ourselves with ZoneMinder's web interface, we'll look at remotely accessing the system. Then finish by setting up email notifications, and performing a system backup/restore.
Website links:
ZoneMinder
zoneminder.com/
TurnKey Linux
www.turnkeylinux.org/
Debian
www.debian.org/
Etcher
www.balena.io/etcher/
Static IP: Beginner's guide to setting up static (and reserved) IP addresses on a home network
• Static IP: Beginner's ...
VLC Media Player
www.videolan.org/
TP-link Tapo RTSP
www.tp-link.com/support/faq/2...
ZoneMinder Camera Control
zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/...
Raspberry Pi official website
www.raspberrypi.org/
Setting up a Raspberry Pi headless (example wpa_supplicant.conf file)
www.raspberrypi.org/documenta...
Country codes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_316...
Angry IP Scanner
angryip.org/
ZoneMinder Defining Zones
zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/...
Remote Access: Securely connect your devices over the internet with ZeroTier
• Remote Access: Securel...
TurnKey Hub
hub.turnkeylinux.org/
TurnKey Hub API key
hub.turnkeylinux.org/profile
FileZilla
filezilla-project.org/
Additional credits:
Thanks to www.1001fonts.com/ for the following fonts
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Fat Finger made by Matthew Welch
Amazon AWS logo courtesy of Amazon.com Inc. (Apache License 2.0 www.apache.org/licenses/LICENS...) via Wikimedia Commons
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(Original) images sourced from the superb pixabay.com/

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@jim7smith 2 жыл бұрын

I cannot refrain from praising you for the absolute best zoneminder tutorial I have ever seen. I can hardly wait to set it up. Thank you so very much!

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for such positive feedback. Glad you enjoyed the video :)

@mrsylvester666 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another very in depth and informative video. Was going to set up either motioneye or zonealarm on a stand alone old pc. looks like it going to be zonealarm now! Also enjoyed your airsonic guide, keep up the good work.

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. Have fun creating your video surveillance system :)

@DisasterousRDX 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the efforts. This is what I was looking for. Learnt a lot of stuff, will soon implement the complete system. Thanks a lot!

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for your feedback and have fun setting up your new system :)

@kennethodhiambo1803 Жыл бұрын

Of all the video tutorials I have ever watched, the is the best I have watched yet! Very well structured, very simple and easy to follow. Thank you very much

@bytemypi2918 Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for your kind words :)

@jpblcm Жыл бұрын

Really good and right to the point. As Jim Smith Sr, just said "absolute best zm tutorial".

@rpatros 2 жыл бұрын

This is a top notch tutorial...keep up the great work.

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support :)

@SirBennyMiles 3 ай бұрын

What a great video. Thank you for that. There's more knowledge in this single video than in the whole chanel of some other guys 👍🏽👍🏽

@muzguz7276 5 ай бұрын

Excellent tutorial, thanks so much for your efforts.

@TheClembo Жыл бұрын

It's been only what I expected from you! Thanks so much. Everyone that's already commented have a tick against them from me so I won't bore you here with any thing else. I can't add anymore. Just the best! ATB and cheers. Only to say it's been a bit quiet from you lately, hope all is well with you and yours. Thanks.

@LeeSurber 3 жыл бұрын

One word! Fantastic!

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

Ta very much. I'm glad you liked it :)

@nagoredeen 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing tutorial

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support :)

@MarioLopez-xw8ju 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ... Excelent tutorials ...

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for your feedback.

@danielo9408 8 ай бұрын

great! I love the mole :-)

@carlosdantenicolasdelafuen1293 Жыл бұрын

Thank you 👋👋👋👍

@garrysingh4484 2 жыл бұрын

Best !!! 📷 Video

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your feedback :)

@garrysingh4484 2 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 Can You Please Make Videos On Following Topics Because There Are No Good Videos On This Topics On KZfaq : Topics - Xrdp Linux - (To Access Linux From Mac or Windows) - X11vnc Linux - (To Access Linux From Mac or Windows) - Net Speed Meter App For Linux - How To Properly Remove Linux From Dual Boot On Macbook Pro (Same Like You Make Video For Windows - Because Every Time I Try This I Ended Up Messing The Whole MacOS & Have To Reinstall From Scratch)

@aizenmills8222 2 жыл бұрын

Would love love to see a in-depth video on Shinobi cctv.

@cctvinstaller5292 3 жыл бұрын

Great video about Zoneminder and very practical. Do you plan to review CCTV lens calculators or something like JVSG design tool in your future videos?

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

I think you'd need a dedicated CCTV channel to go into that kind of depth. Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated.

@mechrekt 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, can you tell how to use another harddrive to store data for zoneminder? Thank you for this in depth guide!

@daytrader66 3 жыл бұрын

First class tutorial. Just what I was looking for. I see Zoneminder 1.36.0 has just released. Any idea how far behind turnkey builds are behind the product releases?

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

I think the TurnKey version of ZoneMinder is currently 1.34.23. It obviously takes some work to get it all integrated into an easy to use package. Thank you for your feedback :)

@chrissullivan8556 2 жыл бұрын

I have just installed ZM 1.36.12 docker image on Debian 11 - works very well. Something to consider when it comes to applying ZM updates (but at the discretion of the image maintainer)

@1powelrainbow2 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely wonderful! I have tried different tutorials out there (all way too advanced for me) but none has explained it as well as you! I'm so happy that I have actually gotten this far. One problem though, I have set up two cameras (usb and IP) and though they're capturing according to the zoneminder UI, I can't see any live feed (broken image symbol) when I check the feed. Any idea what causes this? Some online said i need to check the zm config file but have no idea how to find it (i don't know how to navigate in the terminal). Once again, thank you for your effort!

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. I'm glad you found it helpful. I initially thought that the problem you're experiencing could be an authentication issue between the cameras and ZoneMinder, but the fact you mention even the USB camera having trouble suggests something else is at fault. Have you tried using a different web browser, say Firefox for example? With regards to the ZoneMinder config file, it's located in the /etc/zm directory. From the Terminal, type "cd /etc/zm" (without the quotes). Before going any further it's a good idea to make a backup of the config. You can do this by typing: cp zm.conf zm.bak Now you can open the file with the nano text editor: nano zm.conf After making any changes you can press Ctrl + X to exit. Finally, type "y" (again without the quotes) and press Enter to save them. Hope that helps :)

@1powelrainbow2 2 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 thank you for your reply! I searched a lot and found out exactly what you said, zoneminder gave me error due to some authorization. After searching I found a button controlling it, turned it off and now it works. I know it's not a permanent solution but it'll do for now. And great thanks for the terminal tutorial, really need to learn it...

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

@@1powelrainbow2 No problem. I would have pointed you in the direction of the Auth-Relay setting, but I wasn't sure if it was that when you said the USB camera didn't work either. It sounds like you found it anyway :) I'm thinking of doing my next video about the Linux Terminal.

@1powelrainbow2 2 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 ooohh i would love that! The terminal is my Achilles heel being a UI guy. Despite surrounding myself at home with so much raspberry pi, Ubuntu and now zoneminder, I absolutely s*ck at it

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

@@1powelrainbow2 Sounds like you're on the right track, surrounding yourself with Raspberry Pis! Watch this space :)

@hamzafekkak6321 Жыл бұрын

hello everyone , I have a question, is it possible to browse the recording that is in the hard drive of the DVR hikvision or Dahua via Zoneminder? Thanks soo much!

@MarcoCanever 3 жыл бұрын

Hi. Tks for this great video. I installed in a 500Gb Hd (487Gb ext4 and 12Gb swap). So, could you explain how do I manage dedicated space to store videos without getting full? Does ZM control free space dedicated to store vídeos? Does ZM auto delete oldest vídeos?

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. I've not used a dedicated disk with ZoneMinder for storing the captured footage, but since the TurnKey Linux version is based on Debian, if you find the folder where the CCTV videos are stored, you could mount the second disk to this location so that the videos are saved to that drive. Be aware that you'd also need to make sure the file permissions are correct. As for auto deleting the oldest videos, yes, this functionality should already be turned on by default. You can check by looking in the "Filters" tab and selecting the "Purge when disk is full" option from the drop down list. Hope that helps.

@MarcoCanever 3 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 thank you very much. I’ll try the way you said. Greetings from Brazil!

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

@@MarcoCanever No problem. Hope it goes well. Hello from the UK!

@andresenriquegomezalba9728 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for your video, is there any way to enable motion alarms other than email?

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. I don't think ZoneMinder natively supports any other type of alert system, but you could use a third party email to SMS gateway service which would then send you a text message when an alert is triggered. Hope that helps :)

@bubuluke 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful. I learned a lot Where are events stored? Are they on the database?

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

The events can be downloaded from within the web interface, but if you need to find them on the actual disk, according to ZoneMinder's website they should be located in /var/cache/zoneminder/events Thanks for your feedback.

@bubuluke 3 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 Thank you! For the sake of automation, I need to know which specific zone was triggered. I have a Python application that also needs to run based on an event.

@bubuluke 3 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 I am looking at this: The only way ZoneMinder sends out event notifications via event filters - this is too slow zmeventnotification.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/es_faq.html I wonder if and why this is so much faster than reading the logs.

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

@@bubuluke It looks as if that's a separate server that can be set up alongside ZoneMinder for notifications. When I tried notifications of ZoneMinder events for the video (using the built in system) it seemed to respond quite quickly, although this would depend a lot on your email provider.

@bubuluke 3 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 I need ZM to talk to other applications that aim a PTZ camera. I am looking at the PYZM now. I need to know when a uniquely identified zone has been breached.

@leoncryp8182 2 жыл бұрын

FYI your intro video sound is a bit too loud when compared to your voice. Maybe reduce sound of intro vid by 20-30% to normalize it with your voice. Great tutorials by the way, ive been watching a bunch of them already

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

I've corrected the volume levels on the more recent videos, but unfortunately there's no way to do this on already published content. Thanks for your support :)

@leoncryp8182 2 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 oh forgot to mention your out-tro has the same problem. but you probably had it fixed too.

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

@@leoncryp8182 Yes, I sorted that too :)

@mucip_ilbuga 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, Thanks for the valuable tutorial. Can we use ESP8266 Webcam with ZoneMinder?

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

Providing the webcam supports the RTSP protocol it should work fine. A quick Google search seems to suggest that it does :)

@mucip_ilbuga 2 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 , Infact I checked and could't see any video tutorial like yours or document if I can use esp8266 CAM with ZoneMinder?! Ok. Thanks. I will try than. ;)

@tonystark1300 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video mate, but please mind your audio levels. Your voice is super quite so I cranked the volume and then your intro music almost blew my speakers it was so loud.

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry about that. I've adjusted the audio levels on my newer videos. Thanks for your feedback.

@ouzonat9937 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, do you think it is possible to add 180+ ip cam on a server? or two servers?

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

No problem. So long as the IP camera supports RTSP, you should be able to link to its video stream the same as any other security camera. Being able to control the camera rotation from within ZoneMinder is another matter, and will depend on whether the model is supported or not. Hope that helps :)

@ouzonat9937 2 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 thank you, it does. Two of the cameras have ptz others are stationary. All of them support rstp We have more than 180 ip cams and two Windows Servers that control and record them. I'd like to set up linux and zoneminder to those Servers but i am gonna need a lot of courage for that :)

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

@@ouzonat9937 Sorry I misunderstood the question. I thought you meant you were using a 180 degree rotating camera, not that you had 180 cameras! Wow that is an ambitious project. I've never tried anywhere near that number of cameras. I'd try adding maybe ten at a time and see how it goes. Good luck.

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

@@ouzonat9937 I had another thought. I don't know what Zoneminder's camera limit is (or if there even is one), but with that many connections I could see the biggest issue being network bandwidth. If you were to use virtualisation (you mentioned they are Microsoft servers so they'll have Hyper-V), you could potentially install multiple Linux virtual machines on each server, and set up ZoneMinder on each one. That way (if required) you could install extra network adapters into each server and assign them to certain virtual machines. You could also have the different instances of ZoneMinder looking after particular physical groups (areas) of cameras. By the way, your original question makes far more sense now (I wondered why you mentioned two servers)!

@ouzonat9937 2 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 np. Afaik there is no limit for camera number. We do have cisco virtualization however our network structure as follows. We keep our data network and camera network seperate. Their switches and cables are seperate. Thus no virtualization on camera side since that would put strain over data network and disk size would be costly Our cam Servers have Windows Server 12 installed and runs an old version of luxeriot software. Each Server has over 90 cams recording with around 150 tb disk. I dont know May be using cluster approach would work. Or using docker containers. İ am hesitant Windows machines are a pain in the ass...

@guldgossen30 3 жыл бұрын

I tried to install zoneminder on a raspberry pi 4. I think I got it working for the most part but I can only get the /stream2 to work not /stream1. I have the same tapo c100 as you have. Bought two of them today. And I get the same on both. Not sure how to troubleshoot this. It works fine in vlc.

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

I've not tried running Zoneminder on a Raspberry Pi. I'm wondering if a 1080p RTSP stream is a little too much for it. I know that hardware acceleration is currently unavailable on the Pi 4 when using certain video codecs in Kodi media centre. I'm not sure if something like this may be the case when it comes to processing video streams in Zoneminder. Your best bet is probably to have a nose around in the Zoneminder forums and see if anyone there has any experience of this issue: forums.zoneminder.com/ Hope that helps.

@guldgossen30 3 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 Thank you I will check in the forums. Meanwhile I have tried Shinobi and the 1080p stream works just fine with that so it doesn't seem to be a hardware limitation. But I would really prefer Zoneminder.

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

@@guldgossen30 Yes, that would certainly suggest that the Pi can handle the video stream. I hope you manage to get it working with Zoneminder.

@hectorsilva9071 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, all good, but when I add more than 7 cameras and go to the Montage tab, one camera always goes blank, that happens with any camera, always one of the 7 remains blank, does not show image.

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

I've not tried that many cameras before. I wonder if its using all of the available hardware resources. Might be worth checking how much RAM you have, or try lowering some of the camera resolutions.

@danielo9408 4 ай бұрын

Hi just wanted to clarify, as it's been some time since your video, 3 years, I have just been on the zoneminder site, it says free, as per your content here, but it also shows paid services on the site, can you confirm these are not necessary please?

@gregn267 Жыл бұрын

is there an app for old iphones?

@DaveGregson 2 жыл бұрын

Help nneded please! I go to login at Zoneminder and enter the correct details but it just sits there? Any Ideas plase?

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

If you haven't already, first restart Zoneminder. If that doesn't work, try using a different web browser. Hope that helps :)

@sergeyabramov6606 Жыл бұрын

Can you show connect zmninja?

@dhxbcmd 3 жыл бұрын

Your video is very interesting You are wonderful I'm sorry, but is it okay to ask a question? I want to link the zoneminder video source to my personal webpage (wordpress) In other words, I want to open my camera. Anyone can see Videos have links like KZfaq But zoneminder is hard to get video link How can I open my video (zoneminder) on my personal webpage?

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

When you say a personal webpage on Wordpress, are you running this on a server inside you own network? If so, embedding the video feed from one of the Zoneminder cameras should be relatively straight forward. First, login to Zoneminder's web interface and open the camera monitor that you wish to view on your web page. Then right click on the video feed and choose "Copy image address". Next enter the following code into the web page you want the camera feed to appear on (changing the relevant parts), it needs to go in between the "" and "" entries: Enter a name for your camera stream here Save and refresh the web page and your camera should now be displaying in it. I wouldn't advise using this code on the internet, as it reveals the connection key to your Zoneminder user account. I suppose you could create a separate (non-admin) Zoneminder account specifically for this purpose, but you may still be opening yourself up to potential hacks, and you'd also have to do some port opening/forwarding on your router to access the camera feed - which, again, is an added security risk. Basically, I'd only suggest doing the above if its on your own private network. I believe there are commercial services out there that will do what you want (on the internet), but you'd still have to trust them with your live feed, and also pay for the privilege. Having not used any of them, unfortunately I can't really comment on their offerings. Thanks for your kind feedback, and I hope you manage to safely achieve what you're trying to accomplish.

@dhxbcmd 3 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 Thank you very much. I am impressed with your detailed guidance But I still haven't solved the problem Cannot insert in my wordpress html page If it's okay Give me your e-mail address, and I can send you an open camera address. Can you tell me the html? Of course I'm sorry if only you are okay

@bytemypi2918 3 жыл бұрын

@@dhxbcmd You're welcome. If you'd like to send me another KZfaq private message (like you did last time) containing further information, I'll take a look. If you're concerned about security, just make some of the camera details more generic. Kind regards, BMP.

@winston_nn Жыл бұрын

how to doing raid in zonminder

@blaichan5689 2 жыл бұрын

How can i connect with wifi if i don't want to use from lan port ZoneMinder

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think TurnKey Linux supports wireless out of the box, but I believe it can be installed by running the following two commands as root: apt update apt install wireless-tools wpasupplicant I've not tried it myself but I hope that helps :)

@blaichan5689 2 жыл бұрын

@@bytemypi2918 thank i will try it

@bytemypi2918 2 жыл бұрын

@@blaichan5689 You're welcome :)