Can I Stream ZM video?

[Rayj00]

Can I send the camera output to a remote internet webpage?

[burger]

See: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/External_Live_Stream for one way to do this.

The API method is recommended for security purposes. I'd say if it's a public webpage you might want to proxy it,, and or rewrite the URL to hide any token.

[Rayj00]

Thanks for responding.

I'll be using Apache2 for serving up webpages.

Some of the other things in the link you provided are kinda strange. I'm not a website developer, per-se. I'm more a dabbler.
My Ring service just hiked their price. It's not a game stopper, but I am experimenting to host my own infrastructure using ZM.

I have a single IP camera to experiment with. Hopefully I'll get a couple more.

Can i use you for questions about the External_Live_Stream document.

Thanks,
Ray

[burger]

No worries, ask away. I put that together although it is adapted from the official docs (with some changes).

[Rayj00]

What are the "official documents" you mention?

[burger]

I'm referring to the instructions for getting a token, which are from: https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html

What needs to be done is some work on setting up a proper proxy or rewrite so that you can put these streams on an internet website without the token being exposed. I haven't needed to do this, so I haven't looked into it.

The internet has something like this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/230 ... -ip-camera
You have to use the right search terms, I found "stream video webpage ip camera" was better than just "restream video on webpage".

[Rayj00]

In the External Live Stream wiki, there is reference to a link: <img src='https://yourserverwanipordns/zm/cgi-bin......

What is the yourserverwanipordns? I assume it's just the ZM server "localhost", or IP?

Thanks,

Ray

[dougmccrary]

It's the internet IP address or DNS that someone could use to get to your zm server's local address.