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# ZoneMinder Reviews
**Vendor:** ZoneMinder  
**Category:** [Physical Security Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/physical-security)  
**Average Rating:** 2.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 2
## About ZoneMinder
ZoneMinder is a full-featured, open-sourcevideo surveillance software system.




## ZoneMinder Reviews
  ### 1. A very complex security system

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Daniel S. | QA Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2024

**What do you like best about ZoneMinder?**

it has a lot of features that you dont even know what to do wth

**What do you dislike about ZoneMinder?**

its very complicated and not easy to setup and use

**What problems is ZoneMinder solving and how is that benefiting you?**

it allows me to record my cameras when i want

  ### 2. It's a pain to setup, but it beats any expensive subscription

**Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Frank B. | DevOps engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2019

**What do you like best about ZoneMinder?**

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 about ZoneMinder?**

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 ZoneMinder:**

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 is ZoneMinder solving and how is that benefiting you?**

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.


## ZoneMinder Discussions
  - [What is ZoneMinder used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/zoneminder-what-is-zoneminder-used-for)
  - [What is ZoneMinder used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-zoneminder-used-for)

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