Zoneminder - an Open Source, Self Hosted surveillance system powerful enough for the Enterprise!

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=== Timestamps ===
00:00 Beginning
00:09 Introduction to Zoneminder
01:07 Thank you to my Patrons at Patreon, and my subscribers on YouTube
01:40 About Surveillance in your Life
05:30 Installing Zoneminder on Debian 11 Bullseye
16:00 Accessing our Zoneminder Install
17:30 Setup and Configuration of Zoneminder in the Web UI
20:40 Adding and Editing Users in Zoneminder
33:25 Adding Storage to Zoneminder
36:20 Adding Cameras to Zoneminder
44:00 Views for Cameras in Zoneminder
46:35 Resource usage of Zoneminder

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=== Attributions ===

[legallyblindreview]

Great video, I appreciate you making things bigger, and in Dark mode. I am on the blind spectrum and that is appreciated!

[Sdiaz]

Nice introduction to an open source utility could make things much better for me.
Thank you.

[DJDashzn]

Hi Brian let me firstly wish you a happy New Year from all the YouTube watchers. A really great video.

I think this also has android and iOS apps for it as well. Definitely something to look out for and test.

[DJDashzn]

I forgot to mention in my previous comment, it would be nice if you did a tutorial on lxc containers. I know that they are many tutorials out there however like one of your previous comments mentions your style of tutorial and teaching is really good

[godarayudhvir]

Something that i am currently look into, nice timing.

[ChrisDePasqualeNJ]

Thanks for the video nice job, I always appreciate your your teaching style. But I think I will wait for the new version. I hope you will let us know when it comes out. :-)

[seanfaherty]

I just installed this on a Pi zero.
I had some issues.
First - don't use sudo when sending the command to make the Database talk to Zoneminder.
Second - don't use a headless install . It seems you need a desktop.
Besides being monumentally stunned about those issues it went great for me.
I hope this helps someone else as the forums didn't mention these things

[IsaacConnor]

Deep/Medium/Shallow uses different path structures. Shallow just sticks all events in a single directory. Most filesystems don't like directories will millions of files. So this doesn't perform. So we build a tree based on date. Deep uses directory structure will scales well but is overkill. So we recommend Medium which is MonitorId/date/eventId which works well.

[mindmystery]

Hi there, i wonder why i can't see past events ( past videos ). The latest is 10 days from the actual day. Is there anything that i can do to make it to all events and review them !!
Thank you for your help 🙏

[Knnniggett]

ZoneMinder has an Onvif probe feature (icon in the top right of the monitor config) which can auto-populate many of the fields in the monitor config, including the RTSP url. In order for this to work, the server must be in the same broadcast domain as the camera. Sometimes that requires configuring the container or vm to allow this.

[nobodyspecial]

In Debian if you don't type a root password in the setup, it will install sudo, have you setup a user, add them to the sudo group, and disable login on the root user.

[kerahsreview]

Love your videos. My question s, I have an xfinity home security system with no camera at my new house. What would you recommend I do to be able to use it without a subscription. I don't want to be paying monthly fees of no reason.

[akifarslan]

Hi, thank you for the detailed video. Are you working on a remote linux server such as linode or is this your local computer?

[dimitristsoutsouras]

At 33:52 you unticked back up mentioning that you will be using proxmox for backups. How does that checkbox correlates to what proxmox does by default. In other words leaving that box checked what would have caused to be able to happen.
At 43:40 what exactly helped you with changing the mode of the camera to passthrough? You mentioned something about not doing that lxc any kind of transconding sd

I am also trying to understand your concept here. Are your cameras connected to a bnc type connector on a pci card and that card is passed through to the lxc in order for the Zoneminder to see them? Something else?

[EliaseEliseuOficial]

I noticed several videos and reviews of software for monitoring security cameras which is the best system and the most complete of which you have already tested, open source, of course??

[jesmasco]

Hi, just one question on something that caught my attention at the beginning of the video. You said that if looking for easy installation and motion detection, then look into blue iris. So, are you telling that zoneminder does not have motion detection and other advanced features as blueiris. So then, what are the advantages of this open source alternative against blueiris that could make someone willing to do the change to open source?

[njgvwgo]

Hi!!! How are you Mr Brian!!! I'm writing to you from central Africa and I find your video so informative. I used zonemnder a very long time ago and I couldn't get over it To go out !!! But I have a very big complaint to ask you please what equipment do you use to connect to zoneminder via the cameras!!!? From a Switch, an nvr or dvr please because in the Video I just see how you make it In the web page but without showing the assembly of the cameras please enlighten me thank you

[jaysunkreuze]

Does anyone know if the Sunba Illuminati auto tracking PTZ camera is compatible with Zoneminder?

[obfuscateidentity]

I currently have a security system that uses BNC connectors to connect to the monitoring system could they be repurposed to use with zone minder?

[obfuscateidentity]

What kind of cameras are you using do they have to be USB cameras?