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ZoneMinder

Video Surveillance

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ZoneMinder is a full-featured, open source, state-of-the-art video surveillance software system. Monitor your home, office, or wherever you want. Using off the shelf hardware with any camera, you can design a system as large or as small as you need.

ZoneMinder appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

  • ZoneMinder configurations:

    • ZoneMinder installed from the official upstream release-1.38 Trixie repository.

  • SSL support out of the box.

  • Adminer administration frontend for MySQL (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL).

  • Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email from web applications (e.g., password recovery).

  • Webmin modules for configuring Apache2, PHP, MySQL and Postfix.

NOTE: Zoneminder will continually log a lack of monitors until some are added, this is unlikely to be a significant issue to most users due to the fact most people will add monitors soon after install.

ZoneMinder Package Updates

To compare the installed ZoneMinder package with the version available from the official upstream release-1.38 Trixie repository:

zoneminder-update --check

To install a reported update from the command line:

apt-get update
apt-get install zoneminder
zmupdate.pl
systemctl restart zoneminder
systemctl --no-pager --full status zoneminder
curl -kfsS https://127.0.0.1/zm/ >/dev/null

zmupdate.pl applies any database changes shipped by the new package. Run these commands together so the service restart and HTTPS request confirm that both the updated database and application are usable.

Credentials (passwords set at first boot)

  • Webmin, SSH, MySQL: username root

  • Adminer: username adminer

  • ZoneMinder: username admin

Usage details & Logging in for Administration

  • ZoneMinder credentials set during configuration

No default passwords: For security reasons there are no default passwords. All passwords are set at system initialization time.

Ignore SSL browser warning: browsers don't like self-signed SSL certificates, but this is the only kind that can be generated automatically. If you have a domain configured, then via Confconsole Advanced menu, you can generate free Let's Encypt SSL/TLS certificates.

Web - point your browser at either:

  1. http://12.34.56.789/ - not encrypted so no browser warning
  2. https://12.34.56.789/ - encrypted with self-signed SSL certificate

Note: some appliances auto direct http to https.

Username for adminer:

Login as username adminer

Username for database administration:

  1. Adminer; login as MySQL username adminer:

    https://12.34.56.789:12322/ - Adminer database management web app

  2. MySQL command line tool; log in as root (no password required):
    $ mysql --user root
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql>

Username for OS system administration:

Login as root except on AWS marketplace which uses username admin.

  1. Point your browser to:
  2. Login with SSH client:
    ssh root@12.34.56.789

    Special case for AWS marketplace:

    ssh admin@12.34.56.789

* Replace 12.34.56.789 with a valid IP or hostname.