Camera recording management system that uses VLC media player to record from network video devices.

Features:

• Camera configuration stored in DB
• One VLC process for each device
• Monitors and restarts VLC processes upon failure
• Logs activity such as device recording start/stop and camera disconnected
• Ability to use different recording format for every device
• Can record to the same or different locations for each device
• Cron scripts to remove old recordings when storage limit reached

Requirements:

• PHP enabled web server (Apache)
• MySQL or MariaDB database
• VLC binaries
• Linux based OS (does not work correctly on Windows. Only tested on Debian GNU/Linux but should work fine on other *nix like OS)

Setup:

1. Copy files to web server webroot
2. Create folders for recordings, logs, PID's and locks. Make sure they are writable to the web server
3. Insert "ipcam_db.sql" then edit "include/db.php" to add database configuration (address, username, password etc...)
4. Log in using username and password "admin"
5. Browse to ADMIN SETTINGS/CONFIGURATION MANAGER and add in necessary configuration:

• vlc_exec - VLC executable. Can be a full path or just a command (if it is in your $PATH)
• recording_directory - Path to recordings directory
• pid_directory - Path to PID directory. Used to store PID files of running VLC instances
• log_directory - Path to log directory. Used to store VLC instance logs
• lock_directory - Path to lock directory. Used by cron job lock files
• recording_file_extension - Filename extension for recording files
• recording_file_mux - Set muxer for recordings
• transcode_enable - Enable video transcoding. This will require a fast CPU
• recording_device_limit - Percentage of disk space that must be is use before old recordings are removed (via cron)

6. Add device settings via the EDIT CAMERAS page accessible from the main page
7. Click START ALL to begin recording from all devices

Cron Files

Cron scripts to delete old or failed recordings are available in the cron folder.