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I'm administrating Zoneminder in local animal shelter. It is used to monitor certain animal cages. Every now and then, we would like to stream some of these video feeds to public using e.g. Twitch or Youtube. This is for example when we have kittens or fox puppies which we like to show to public audience. On those occassions, I have disconnected these cameras from Zoneminder and performed the streaming separately.

Anyway, this is not very practical, as animal shelter's own personnel can't make these changes. They know how to move cameras between cages and how to adjust the camera picture through Zoneminder monitor, so if there would be a button "stream this feed to channel #01", they could make also the streaming changes themselves.

So, what do you think, would it be possible to have a streaming plug-in, which could stream selected monitor feed to some streaming service?

I think it would be awesome. We need someone to fund it though.

Maybe I misunderstand what you said, but:
I wonder if it’s really necessary to disconnect the camera from ZM. Many cameras can support multiple connections. Have you tried just connecting the camera to whatever service without respect to ZM?

You can always just embed the stream in a webpage. I don't know how many viewers ZM can handle (i.e. if you have 100's of people.). Maybe something like OBS would be better suited for it. There are notes on setting up a website here:
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/External_Li ... eams_(API)
I see some guides online that refer to streaming to twitch from OBS, so what you are saying is not to difficult / possible outside of ZM. But of course it could be easier to use with ZM if someone funds it.