ZoneMinder

What do you like best?

Once you've added a camera., its easy to set boundaries etc to narrow down what it uses in the field of view to trigger alerts/recordings.

What do you dislike?

Camera's sometime disappear from the list of camera's, video footage freezes which makes me reboot zoneminder in order to pick up the live video feed again (the most annoying thing) and it's quite hard to add a camera in general. The settings you get when adding a camera are not self explanatory and they use abbreviations for their own items (so you cant even google the abbreviations)

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you're relying on stable security software, don't pick Zoneminder.

If you just want to monitor your camera's without them recording (all the time) than this is a safe pick.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We have several chinese imported camera's. they're all from different brands with different shipped software. With Zoneminder we can unify all these camera's in one single system, and also make it record when some movement treshold is passed.