I'm trying to embed real time video from certain zoneminder monitors on a website, thats viewable by anyone. These would be traffic cams.
My first thought was to see if there was a way to enable basic auth for a single user, but I don't think this possible and possibly not a good idea anyway.
I also thought maybe set up a dedicated "Stream" account that would only have access to the desired monitors, then set up another web server that would log into the ZM Stream account via a script and then be able to retrieve and display the video on another website. I was able to find a script that would allow this server to log into ZM, but I'm not enough of a web designer or Apache guru to know really know how to go about this.
Im using hashed auth, so as far as I know if I just copy the image location from zoneminder webpage, the hash will only be valid for an hour or so.
Can anyone give me advice on this?
Embed zoneminder footage on webpage?
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Re: Embed zoneminder footage on webpage?
So after some more reading, it looks like I can use the API to log into ZM.
I'm thinking set up a webserver that, uses a script to log in to zoneminder via the API every 60 minutes.
I guess the webserver would then have to download the video from zoneminder and rehost it on the webservers webpage via a named pipe or something.
Alternately I guess I could just use a script that updates the link on the webpage ever hour with the login info returned from the API.
I think the former is a better solution, as it would not expose as much information about my zoneminder setup to the web, but the latter would probably be easier to implement.
Suggestions?
I'm thinking set up a webserver that, uses a script to log in to zoneminder via the API every 60 minutes.
I guess the webserver would then have to download the video from zoneminder and rehost it on the webservers webpage via a named pipe or something.
Alternately I guess I could just use a script that updates the link on the webpage ever hour with the login info returned from the API.
I think the former is a better solution, as it would not expose as much information about my zoneminder setup to the web, but the latter would probably be easier to implement.
Suggestions?
Re: Embed zoneminder footage on webpage?
It is easy to embed a Zoneminder stream into a web page. I have a system where "everyone" in the office thinks they need to "see the cameras." Using Montage and managing log ins as people came and went became a pain so I have created camera walls served by the Zoneminder server with a simple html page. My code:
<html>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300">
<body>
<h1>Org Namel</h1>
<p>Camera Group</p>
<img src="http://ip-addr/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=jpe ... &pass=user">
<img src="http://ip-addr/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=jpe ... &pass=user">
<img src="http://ip-addr/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=jpe ... &pass=user">
</body>
</html>
Have the page set to refresh every 300 seconds
the user is non privileged with view only
the ip-addr is the address of the Zoneminder server. If you port forward through a firewall the ip-addr needs to be the ip address of the firewall or the URL
I do not use hashed passwords but you can try it.
Edit: I just set my test server to hashed and my existing camera wall still works.
<html>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300">
<body>
<h1>Org Namel</h1>
<p>Camera Group</p>
<img src="http://ip-addr/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=jpe ... &pass=user">
<img src="http://ip-addr/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=jpe ... &pass=user">
<img src="http://ip-addr/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=jpe ... &pass=user">
</body>
</html>
Have the page set to refresh every 300 seconds
the user is non privileged with view only
the ip-addr is the address of the Zoneminder server. If you port forward through a firewall the ip-addr needs to be the ip address of the firewall or the URL
I do not use hashed passwords but you can try it.
Edit: I just set my test server to hashed and my existing camera wall still works.
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Re: Embed zoneminder footage on webpage?
Thanks, Bbunge, that seems to work perfectly.
Also thanks Snake, that was exactly what I was originally looking for.
Also thanks Snake, that was exactly what I was originally looking for.