Setting up personal CCTV with CentOS and webcam

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After tried few times and failed to get the webcam to work in my Fedora 9 box..
I decided to re-formatted the whole box and install CentOS 5..

and guess what?.. after installed dkms-gpsca and all the dependencies..
the webcam just work out-of-the-box..
.. by using ekiga.. can see the video stream captured from the

/dev/video

hahaha..

then come the interesting part..
after playing a bit with skype and ekiga to get the video stream..
why not putting a webcam software showing something like world view.. or something..

did bump into a software.. Zone Minder[zoneminder.com]
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run into sort of script sequence as below..

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

mkdir cctv
cd cctv/
wget wget http://www.zoneminder.com/fileadmin/downloads/cambozola.jar
wget http://www2.zoneminder.com/downloads/ZoneMinder-1.23.3.tar.gz
yum install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel php php-gd php-mysql httpd gcc pcre-devel gd mod_ssl glib2-devel gcc-c++ ntp gnutls-devel
yum install libjpeg-devel perl-Archive-Tar perl-MIME-Lite perl-MIME-tools perl-Date-Manip perl-Time-HiRes
yum install perl-LWP-UserAgent-Determined perl-PHP-Serialization perl-Device-SerialPort perl-Archive-Zip perl-Module-Load
tar -zxvf ZoneMinder-1.23.3.tar.gz
cd ZoneMinder-1.23.3
./configure –with-webdir=/var/www/html/zm –with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin
make
make install

service mysqld start

mysql
cd cctv/ZoneMinder-1.23.3

mysql -u root -p < db/zm_create.sql zm cp scripts/zm /etc/init.d/ chmod a+x /etc/init.d/zm chkconfig zm on cp ../cambozola.jar /var/www/html/zm/ service zm start chkconfig httpd on chkconfig mysqld on chkconfig ntpd on

~~.. done..

and the result is…

CCTV Console
CCTV Console
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Front of the aparment
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  1. Lonnie says:

    HawkEye,
    I have followed your directions, but I get an error at the end start of the build: “ValueError: Could not find an installable distribution at ‘/data/iso/WinXP_SP2_EN.iso'”
    I have tried various ways to create a WinXP iso, your directions were the last I used. All other attempts also failed…Not sure what to try next. When I check the file, it seems to be OK…

    file /data/iso/WinXP_SP2_EN.iso
    /data/iso/WinXP_SP2_EN.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data ‘VRMPOEM_EN ‘ (bootable)

    Any Ideas?

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    • HawkEYE says:

      Perhaps would verify the WinXP CD is actually not corrupted.. and if the CD-Drive is working fine..

      then .. check if the iso files actually accessible by the xen lib..

      else should check the xen lib is properly installed and also verify the current running kernel is xen enabled..

      then might be a reinstall the virtualization group would be the next thing to try ..

      btw: what host are u using ? .. my experience was based on CentOS 5.2 host.. so far it went smooth as above..

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  2. Lonnie says:

    I have built the iso several times, once from Windows CD burner app and twice with “dd” command like you showed…no reported issues…only assuming it is OK.

    How would I verify it is accessible by “xen lib”?
    How would I check to see if xen lib is properly installed?

    I am installing on IBM x345 dual Xeon 2.4GHz cpu with 4GB ram (single cores). I did the install of “Virtualization” group per some earlier notes I saw on the subject…I cannot do the “Fully Virtualized” install because the hardware I have doesn’t support it…so I did the Paravirtualized option.

    Any suggestions I could try tonight would be greatly appreciated.

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    • HawkEYE says:

      check the xen kernel by running this at terminal

      uname -a

      shall be ended with -xen at the end..

      mine is something like this..

      [root@fedora ~]# uname -a
      Linux fedora.namran.net 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 13:08:49 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

      and the file


      [root@fedora ~]# ll /data/iso/XP3_3282_V2_EN.iso
      -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 670576640 Feb 21 00:07 /data/iso/XP3_3282_V2_EN.iso

      mine also a para-virtualization as unable to become utilize full-virtualization

      [root@fedora ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
      processor : 0
      vendor_id : GenuineIntel
      cpu family : 15
      model : 2
      model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
      stepping : 9
      cpu MHz : 2992.718
      cache size : 512 KB
      fdiv_bug : no
      hlt_bug : no
      f00f_bug : no
      coma_bug : no
      fpu : yes
      fpu_exception : yes
      cpuid level : 2
      wp : yes
      flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid xtpr
      bogomips : 7487.18

      if all fail, shall consider to seek help from bugs.centos.org or forum http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=37

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  3. Lonnie says:

    # uname -ra
    Linux homer 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 13:08:49 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

    # ls -l /data/iso/WinXP_SP2_EN.iso
    -rw-r–r– 1 root root 607559680 Mar 22 11:30 /data/iso/WinXP_SP2_EN.iso

    # cat /proc/cpuinfo
    processor : 0
    vendor_id : GenuineIntel
    cpu family : 15
    model : 2
    model name : Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
    stepping : 4
    cpu MHz : 2672.992
    cache size : 512 KB
    fdiv_bug : no
    hlt_bug : no
    f00f_bug : no
    coma_bug : no
    fpu : yes
    fpu_exception : yes
    cpuid level : 2
    wp : yes
    flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
    bogomips : 6689.88

    processor : 1
    vendor_id : GenuineIntel
    cpu family : 15
    model : 2
    model name : Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
    stepping : 4
    cpu MHz : 2672.992
    cache size : 512 KB
    fdiv_bug : no
    hlt_bug : no
    f00f_bug : no
    coma_bug : no
    fpu : yes
    fpu_exception : yes
    cpuid level : 2
    wp : yes
    flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up
    bogomips : 6689.88

    processor : 2
    vendor_id : GenuineIntel
    cpu family : 15
    model : 2
    model name : Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
    stepping : 4
    cpu MHz : 2672.992
    cache size : 512 KB
    fdiv_bug : no
    hlt_bug : no
    f00f_bug : no
    coma_bug : no
    fpu : yes
    fpu_exception : yes
    cpuid level : 2
    wp : yes
    flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up
    bogomips : 6689.88

    processor : 3
    vendor_id : GenuineIntel
    cpu family : 15
    model : 2
    model name : Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
    stepping : 4
    cpu MHz : 2672.992
    cache size : 512 KB
    fdiv_bug : no
    hlt_bug : no
    f00f_bug : no
    coma_bug : no
    fpu : yes
    fpu_exception : yes
    cpuid level : 2
    wp : yes
    flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up
    bogomips : 6689.88

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  5. V Tweet US says:

    Thanks HawkEYE for guiding me how to install windows XP on XEN virtualization in CentOS 5. The way you have enplane it make pretty easy to do it.

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  6. http://www.lcplunderground.com says:

    Actually no matter if someone doesn’t understand after that its up to other visitors that they will help, so here it happens.

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