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PandaBoard and ZoneMinder

get a PandaBoard
install Ubuntu Server on it according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/Server/Install/OMAP4
1. download image from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/release/ubuntu-12.04-preinstalled-server-armhf+omap4.img.gz
2. prepare the card with gunzip -c ubuntu-12.04-preinstalled-server-armhf+omap4.img.gz | sudo dd bs=1M of=/dev/mmcblk0 or similar (take care to use the correct device, or you may delete your own data)
3. connect the board to Internet according to your configuration
update/upgrade Ubuntu (do-release-upgrade - twice or until you get to current LTS version, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade)
1. install jfsutils package apt install jfsutils
2. format and mount external USB HDD as JFS/noatime
3. be careful to have enough power on USB, otherwise you may get random freeze
forward a well know open port (8888) or other one from your Internet router to pandaboard ssh port (22)
enable a simple free dynamic dns account (for example https://freedns.afraid.org/, adding wget script in pandaboard's cron scripts to execute each 5 minutes)
install ZoneMinder
1. Enable Isaac Connor's PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:iconnor/zoneminder; sudo apt-get update
2. Install ZoneMinder following: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Server_16.04_64-bit_with_Zoneminder_1.30.4_the_easy_way
3. Follow http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/userguide/gettingstarted.html