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To be clear we are on the same page: a) The API ties into ZM auth. If you have ZM auth (OPT_USE_AUTH) enabled in ZM, the APIs will require you to logging into ZM first and will work only from the same browser instance b) If you have ZM auth disabled (which is default when you install a fresh package...

What do you mean by built in authentication? OPT_USE_AUTH in ZM or something else?

I have OPT_USE_AUTH enabled too. I installed on a clean Ubuntu 15 system

I just installed iconnors new 1.29 PPA Please follow these instructions exactly https://github.com/pliablepixels/zmNinja/wiki/Easy-Way:-Ubuntu-15,-Install-ZoneMinder-API-from-Package I had no problems getting APIs to work (and as it turns out, I did have the chown instructions as part of my instruct...

Okay, this problem is more fundamental.Looks like you are using the most recent 1.29-stable ppa that iconnor just released right?
I haven't tried it yet so I'm going to have to try this myself, which I'll do later today.

Hi folks, For those who have been running zmNinja for a while, an important request: a) Please upgrade ZM to 1.29 stable - it was released on Feb 05 by knnnigget (Fedora/CentOS) and iconnor (Ubuntu). It includes some important fixes that zmNinja needs. zmNinja will not work with older versions - I'v...

I'm glad it worked for you, but I don't see the changes in your code at https://github.com/waynieack/HikvisionZM/blob/master/motionstream.pl --> have you uploaded it? Specifically, my theory (based on limited testing is) 1. if zmMemRead for mon $x fails for shared_data:valid, you need to invalidate ...

I'm a little surprised why the package did not do this, since you are following the package instructions

Hey thanks Biloxi! Always good to hear nice things

True, UI consistency is important. Someone else also suggested this but I forgot about it.
Would you mind creating github issues so I can tag/track them when I release?

I already added your issue here https://github.com/pliablepixels/zmNinja/issues/158 (and fixed it)

thx

Right, I should plough this into zmeventserver as soon as I get time to test it more. As it stands today, zmeventserver also likely misses events between the reload_monitor interval if a zmc crashes in between (but not if zm restarts thanks to zmdc). With respect to not changing zmdc.pl, I guess tha...

I did a bit of experimentation (and took a hint from zmwatch.pl) a) You detect your handle is invalid when zmMemRead fails (tip of the hat to zmwatch) b) if above fails, you invalidate your current handle and do zmMemVerify. On looking at the code for zmMemRead, it already calls zmMemVerify, so I gu...

I got what you meant, all 3 times. I don't happen to agree with the approach. Our difference in perspective is that you are attaching the same relevance to zmc and his script. I'm not. I actually think doing this inside functions.php is doing things at a more low-level because one can, not because o...

Right, that is how the flow works, but I really don't think one should put in a personal perl script restart inside functions.php - that's too core a file. His function ideally should be restarted when communication to mapped memory fails. I don't think he needs to get a trigger when a zmc fails - i...

Actually, a better place to put it is in the array list of zmdc.pl - so that if the process crashes, it will be automatically restarted as ZM watches all daemons in this list. Specifically, there are two places to put in (which is what I do in zmeventserver) https://github.com/pliablepixels/zmevents...

Zm perl modules use shared memory to communicate with zm core processes. After Zm restarts those handles are invalid. One solution is to start an stop your script along with zm. Google for zmeventserver and see how I've attached it to zmdc.pl -- in addition to being in sync it will also be restarted...