I’ve finally gotten around to rewriting my old Trendnet PTZ controller for Zoneminder 1.22.x to support the new API for Zoneminder 1.23.x. It includes all the old features (moving the camera in horizontally, vertically, diagonally, and going to preset and home position) as well as a new bonus feature: move the camera simply by clicking a point in the live video that you want the camera to recenter on. This is not extremely accurate, but good enough for most uses, and faster than having to click an arrow 20 times.

Here’s the basic steps on how to get this Trendnet TV-IP400 / IV-IP400W driver to work in ZoneMinder: (continue reading…)