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I have an appication where I'd like to record when someone comes up to the front door and then continues recording until they walk outside the field of the camera. The area away from the front door experiences a lot of shadows movements from the tree and wind. In this application two zones can be cr...

On prior release of ubuntu/zoneminder I was able to access my zoneminder/ubuntu server via IE. Now I am getting weird results with releases 1.24.2. a) On win7 Home accessing ubuntu/zoneminder server: 1) montage on Firefox works fine; but 2) IE on Win7 Home displays one camera and the cambozola copyr...

Ever wondered how analog cameras used in the US compare to those used in EU and other places of the world. Here you will find the output of identical analog cameras except the image on the top is PAL (EU) format and the image on the bottom is NTSC (US) format. http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x32...

The resolution of an analog camera is often given as the number of TVL provided in the analog signal. Examples of the resolution given in TVL are 380, 420, 480, 550 and higher. Generally costs of cameras increase as TVL increases. Hardware (e.g., DVR Card) is required to convert the analog signal in...

Wireless is cleanest. An 802.11g wireless router should have enough capacity to run 4 or 5 cameras simultaneously (e.g., residential application). There is no horsing around with terminating a bunch of network cables. Relocating the zoneminder box / wireless router is easy too as there is no physica...

I was thinking as a clean installation the following: 1) wireless IP cameras, 2) a central power supply box (AC to DC, fuses, etc) 3) zoneminder box with wireless router Such a scheme minimizes wiring requirements. I found that many IP hardwired cameras use 12VDC and that there is an abundance of 12...