I have set ZM up on a camera I have covering the intersection out in front of
my driveway. It has been quite entertaining to see what ZM captures as to
goings on out there (we have had a drug problem in the past and I set the
camera up to catch some of that activity but the sheriff may have taken care
of it for us, though the 'customer' is still in the area, but we are
watching now.
Back to ZoneMinder, once set up it is quite powerful and appears to do just
exactly what I want, which is to capture movement of cars and people (and
a few dogs) as the move in and out of the area. Wife told me that I have just
received a 4 port video card, so I can now add more cameras, and capture
more info, by way all of the neighbors have access to it as they are all quite
interested in what is going on, and indeed have helped with this project.
The use of ZM kept the cost down to cameras, the PC was a handmedown,
and so we are out a lot less than had we of gone down the path of that other
OS....
Another great app running on Linux. I have a friend who has some Windows
based stuff, and I can not see that ZM is any less compared to what the
windows stuff does and at a lot less cost.
As usual with things Linux and UNIX, there are a lot of knobs to twist, and I
am busy changing things to see what gives the best responses and reduces
false captures. It does come with a set of defaults that will get you going
and then you can start to tweek from there.
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