I think very few people who've been using ZoneMinder will think of it as "awesome" with feasible API integration and such. Yes, it works. It's gotten a lot better recently. It's still quite buggy and the configuration is archaic. However, as an open source / free option, I cannot say I don't appreciate it being available, and I am certainly thankful to the ZoneMinder team since I run this system at home with 4 cameras. Sometimes I wish for more though.