Zoneminder

I'm offline for a bit, while working on getting one or more Zoneminder boxes up and running. Getting a system up and running, with the MythTV plugin, is an exercise in taking two steps backward for every three forward (i.e., the distance from point A to point B is the same but you travel 5x the distance to get there).

So far the install has included:

installing the system from scratch

turning off/removing unneeded services/software

setting up access to the PLF repositories

adding needed RPMs

configuring the new services

building the kernel from source (no install, just need the syms for compiling other stuff)

All this before even compiling pvrusb2, MythTV and Zoneminder. Luckily, most of the above could be done by sitting down at the console every 20 minutes or so. It is a bit tedious though. Makes me think that I should have tried one of the Zoneminder LiveCD's first. (I didn't because there's a number of things I want to do that probably aren't in the LiveCD.)