diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index 4a392b6f5c9c..8ae3c7dca00c 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@
   ./services/misc/uhub.nix
   ./services/misc/weechat.nix
   ./services/misc/xmr-stak.nix
+  ./services/misc/zoneminder.nix
   ./services/misc/zookeeper.nix
   ./services/monitoring/alerta.nix
   ./services/monitoring/apcupsd.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/misc/zoneminder.nix b/nixos/modules/services/misc/zoneminder.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a40e9e846137
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/misc/zoneminder.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,362 @@
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+let
+  cfg = config.services.zoneminder;
+  pkg = pkgs.zoneminder;
+
+  dirName = pkg.dirName;
+
+  user = "zoneminder";
+  group = {
+    nginx = config.services.nginx.group;
+    none  = user;
+  }."${cfg.webserver}";
+
+  useNginx = cfg.webserver == "nginx";
+
+  defaultDir = "/var/lib/${user}";
+  home = if useCustomDir then cfg.storageDir else defaultDir;
+
+  useCustomDir = !(builtins.isNull cfg.storageDir);
+
+  socket = "/run/phpfpm/${dirName}.sock";
+
+  zms = "/cgi-bin/zms";
+
+  dirs = dirList: [ dirName ] ++ map (e: "${dirName}/${e}") dirList;
+
+  cacheDirs = [ "swap" ];
+  libDirs   = [ "events" "exports" "images" "sounds" ];
+
+  dirStanzas = baseDir:
+    lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (map (e:
+      "ZM_DIR_${lib.toUpper e}=${baseDir}/${e}"
+      ) libDirs);
+
+  defaultsFile = pkgs.writeText "60-defaults.conf" ''
+    # 01-system-paths.conf
+    ${dirStanzas home}
+    ZM_PATH_ARP=${lib.getBin pkgs.nettools}/bin/arp
+    ZM_PATH_LOGS=/var/log/${dirName}
+    ZM_PATH_MAP=/dev/shm
+    ZM_PATH_SOCKS=/run/${dirName}
+    ZM_PATH_SWAP=/var/cache/${dirName}/swap
+    ZM_PATH_ZMS=${zms}
+
+    # 02-multiserver.conf
+    ZM_SERVER_HOST=
+
+    # Database
+    ZM_DB_TYPE=mysql
+    ZM_DB_HOST=${cfg.database.host}
+    ZM_DB_NAME=${cfg.database.name}
+    ZM_DB_USER=${cfg.database.username}
+    ZM_DB_PASS=${cfg.database.password}
+
+    # Web
+    ZM_WEB_USER=${user}
+    ZM_WEB_GROUP=${group}
+  '';
+
+  configFile = pkgs.writeText "80-nixos.conf" ''
+    # You can override defaults here
+
+    ${cfg.extraConfig}
+  '';
+
+  phpExtensions = with pkgs.phpPackages; [
+    { pkg = apcu; name = "apcu"; }
+  ];
+
+in {
+  options = {
+    services.zoneminder = with lib; {
+      enable = lib.mkEnableOption ''
+        ZoneMinder
+        </para><para>
+        If you intend to run the database locally, you should set
+        `config.services.zoneminder.database.createLocally` to true. Otherwise,
+        when set to `false` (the default), you will have to create the database
+        and database user as well as populate the database yourself.
+      '';
+
+      webserver = mkOption {
+        type = types.enum [ "nginx" "none" ];
+        default = "nginx";
+        description = ''
+          The webserver to configure for the PHP frontend.
+          </para>
+          <para>
+
+          Set it to `none` if you want to configure it yourself. PRs are welcome
+          for support for other web servers.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      hostname = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        default = "localhost";
+        description = ''
+          The hostname on which to listen.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      port = mkOption {
+        type = types.int;
+        default = 8095;
+        description = ''
+          The port on which to listen.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      openFirewall = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        description = ''
+          Open the firewall port(s).
+        '';
+      };
+
+      database = {
+        createLocally = mkOption {
+          type = types.bool;
+          default = false;
+          description = ''
+            Create the database and database user locally.
+          '';
+        };
+
+        host = mkOption {
+          type = types.str;
+          default = "localhost";
+          description = ''
+            Hostname hosting the database.
+          '';
+        };
+
+        name = mkOption {
+          type = types.str;
+          default = "zm";
+          description = ''
+            Name of database.
+          '';
+        };
+
+        username = mkOption {
+          type = types.str;
+          default = "zmuser";
+          description = ''
+            Username for accessing the database.
+          '';
+        };
+
+        password = mkOption {
+          type = types.str;
+          default = "zmpass";
+          description = ''
+            Username for accessing the database.
+          '';
+        };
+      };
+
+      cameras = mkOption {
+        type = types.int;
+        default = 1;
+        description = ''
+          Set this to the number of cameras you expect to support.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      storageDir = mkOption {
+        type = types.nullOr types.str;
+        default = null;
+        example = "/storage/tank";
+        description = ''
+          ZoneMinder can generate quite a lot of data, so in case you don't want
+          to use the default ${home}, you can override the path here.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      extraConfig = mkOption {
+        type = types.lines;
+        default = "";
+        description = ''
+          Additional configuration added verbatim to the configuration file.
+        '';
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
+  config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
+
+    environment.etc = {
+      "zoneminder/60-defaults.conf".source = defaultsFile;
+      "zoneminder/80-nixos.conf".source    = configFile;
+    };
+
+    networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = lib.mkIf cfg.openFirewall [ cfg.port ];
+
+    services = {
+      fcgiwrap = lib.mkIf useNginx {
+        enable = true;
+        preforkProcesses = cfg.cameras;
+        inherit user group;
+      };
+
+      mysql = lib.mkIf cfg.database.createLocally {
+        ensureDatabases = [ cfg.database.name ];
+        ensureUsers = {
+          name = cfg.database.username;
+          ensurePermissions = [
+            { "${cfg.database.name}.*" = "ALL PRIVILEGES"; }
+          ];
+          initialDatabases = [
+            { inherit (cfg.database) name; schema = "${pkg}/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql"; }
+          ];
+        };
+      };
+
+      nginx = lib.mkIf useNginx {
+        enable = true;
+        virtualHosts = {
+          "${cfg.hostname}" = {
+            default = true;
+            root = "${pkg}/share/zoneminder/www";
+            listen = [ { addr = "0.0.0.0"; inherit (cfg) port; } ];
+            extraConfig = let
+              fcgi = config.services.fcgiwrap;
+            in ''
+              index index.php;
+
+              location / {
+                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args =404;
+
+                location ~ /api/(css|img|ico) {
+                  rewrite ^/api(.+)$ /api/app/webroot/$1 break;
+                  try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
+                }
+
+                location ~ \.(gif|ico|jpg|jpeg|png)$ {
+                  access_log off;
+                  expires 30d;
+                }
+
+                location /api {
+                  rewrite ^/api(.+)$ /api/app/webroot/index.php?p=$1 last;
+                }
+
+                location /cgi-bin {
+                  gzip off;
+
+                  include ${pkgs.nginx}/conf/fastcgi_params;
+                  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME ${pkg}/libexec/zoneminder/${zms};
+                  fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY "";
+                  fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
+
+                  fastcgi_pass ${fcgi.socketType}:${fcgi.socketAddress};
+                }
+
+                location /cache {
+                  alias /var/cache/${dirName};
+                }
+
+                location ~ \.php$ {
+                  try_files $uri =404;
+                  fastcgi_index index.php;
+
+                  include ${pkgs.nginx}/conf/fastcgi_params;
+                  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
+                  fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY "";
+
+                  fastcgi_pass unix:${socket};
+                }
+              }
+            '';
+          };
+        };
+      };
+
+      phpfpm = lib.mkIf useNginx {
+        phpOptions = ''
+          date.timezone = "${config.time.timeZone}"
+
+          ${lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (map (e:
+          "extension=${e.pkg}/lib/php/extensions/${e.name}.so") phpExtensions)}
+        '';
+        pools.zoneminder = {
+          listen = socket;
+          extraConfig = ''
+            user = ${user}
+            group = ${group}
+
+            listen.owner = ${user}
+            listen.group = ${group}
+            listen.mode = 0660
+
+            pm = dynamic
+            pm.start_servers = 1
+            pm.min_spare_servers = 1
+            pm.max_spare_servers = 2
+            pm.max_requests = 500
+            pm.max_children = 5
+            pm.status_path = /$pool-status
+            ping.path = /$pool-ping
+          '';
+        };
+      };
+    };
+
+    systemd.services = {
+      zoneminder = with pkgs; rec {
+        inherit (zoneminder.meta) description;
+        documentation = [ "https://zoneminder.readthedocs.org/en/latest/" ];
+        path = [
+          coreutils
+          procps
+          psmisc
+        ];
+        after = [ "mysql.service" "nginx.service" ];
+        wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+        restartTriggers = [ defaultsFile configFile ];
+        preStart = lib.mkIf useCustomDir ''
+          install -dm775 -o ${user} -g ${group} ${cfg.storageDir}/{${lib.concatStringsSep "," libDirs}}
+        '';
+        serviceConfig = {
+          User = user;
+          Group = group;
+          SupplementaryGroups = [ "video" ];
+          ExecStart  = "${zoneminder}/bin/zmpkg.pl start";
+          ExecStop   = "${zoneminder}/bin/zmpkg.pl stop";
+          ExecReload = "${zoneminder}/bin/zmpkg.pl restart";
+          PIDFile = "/run/${dirName}/zm.pid";
+          Type = "forking";
+          Restart = "on-failure";
+          RestartSec = "10s";
+          CacheDirectory = dirs cacheDirs;
+          RuntimeDirectory = dirName;
+          ReadWriteDirectories = lib.mkIf useCustomDir [ cfg.storageDir ];
+          StateDirectory = dirs (if useCustomDir then [] else libDirs);
+          LogsDirectory = dirName;
+          PrivateTmp = true;
+          ProtectSystem = "strict";
+          ProtectKernelTunables = true;
+          SystemCallArchitectures = "native";
+          NoNewPrivileges = true;
+        };
+      };
+    };
+
+    users.groups."${user}" = {
+      gid = config.ids.gids.zoneminder;
+    };
+
+    users.users."${user}" = {
+      uid = config.ids.uids.zoneminder;
+      group = user;
+      inherit home;
+      inherit (pkgs.zoneminder.meta) description;
+    };
+  };
+
+  meta.maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ peterhoeg ];
+}