[mythtv-users] Mythzoneminder plugin

[Paul Harrison]

Robert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thought I'd send in a report on installing the zoneminder plugin, 
> hopefully it might be of some use to someone else doing the same thing. 
>   I can also confirm that it works (after the tweaking below) with 
> Zoneminder version 1.23.1
>
>
>
> First off, I wasn't running a supported version of zoneminder, so I had 
> to modify the configure script, adding my zoneminder version on line 526.
>
> Built and installed just the zoneminder plugin roughly following the 
> wiki instructions.
>
> Tried to start mythzmserver, which failed with a zoneminder version 
> error :-(
>
> So I edited main.cpp for mythzmserver, changing the version in the 
> "else" on line 216 to match my zoneminder version.  (Maybe not the 
> neatest bit of work, but it did the job for me!)
>
> Recompiled mythzmserver (make clean && make && make install).
>
> Started mythzmserver and everything is now working nicely.
>
> I also created a simple init script to start it for me on boot.
>
>
>
>
> Nice plugin, does exactly what I'd want for a Zoneminder plugin.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert.
>
>   

Nice to here some positive feed back for a change rather than the 
negative doom and gloom stuff we usually get =).

It's good to know ZM 1.23.x works without too much trouble. It hopefully 
means the shared data structures used by MythZoneMinder haven't changed 
so it should be easy to add support for ZM 1.23.x.

Paul H