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PandaBoard and ZoneMinder

  1. get a PandaBoard
  2. 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
  3. 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)
  4. rename on card/1st partition preEnv.txt and uEnv.txt files as all needed args are in boot.scr file (probably just updating the files also works)
  5. recompile libjpeg-turbo and ffmpeg with hw optimization: VFPv3, NEON, Cortex-A9, see https://askubuntu.com/questions/81870/how-to-download-modify-build-and-install-a-debian-source-package
  6. BACKUP CARD
  7. add USB HDD
    1. install jfsutils package apt install jfsutils
    2. format and mount external USB HDD as JFS/noatime
    3. change I/O scheduler to
    4. be careful to have enough power on USB, otherwise you may get random freeze
  8. forward a well know open port (8888) or other one from your Internet router to pandaboard ssh port (22)
  9. 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)
  10. BACKUP YOUR CARD
  11. 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 and http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installationguide/ubuntu.html#easy-way-ubuntu-16-04
    3. Use MariaDB as is faster
    4. Follow http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/userguide/gettingstarted.html to create database
    5. Tune /dev/shm either to increase or move to HDD
    6. Add 1G SWAP on HDD
    7. Move DB files and ZoneMinder to HDD
linux/pandaboard_and_zoneminder.1503417640.txt.gz · Last modified: 2017/08/22 19:00 by cipibad

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