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Simplicity is a way to perfection :wink: My vision: Frontend is for easy and flexible viewing of ZM collected and streamed data. Pause, rewind and other functionality is ofcourse necessary and requires local cache. User only suplies links to ZM servers (http://srv1/zm/zm_ext_iface.php,http://srv2/zm ...

IMHO frontend is needed for ZM to attract more users and evolve further. Maybe it will be better-faster to split "Frontend" into few parts-projects let's say one part - php webservice and the other .net frontend - could be mono for crossplatform abilities. For few people working "alpha" version ...

Maybe one of the possibilities for frontend to get info from db, could be using webservices. Making webservice in php using for example PEAR SOAP package, and because frontend is written in .net it could use it without a problem, i think