Windows Live Viewer..27-11-05 Now Complete Frontend for ZM!!

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:25 pm

gpl does that mean free for anyone to use?

And no, please keep the suggestions coming. Some maybe beyond my ability at the moment, but im a fast learner

Post by **cordel** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 9:54 pm

GPL is what zm is Licensed under meaning that it is open source. Free not in the terms that everone seems to relate to as not costing money but free to copy, distribute, change and redistribute, as long as there is some sort of access to the source code and it not used in a closed source project.
Nothing is Free. It costs someone something for anything and this case you are contributing time that could be otherwise used to go to work and make money or time that you might use to relax and kick your feet up.
There actualy should be a copy of the license packaged with the software if you intend to build under the licence. It should also be noted in the about box where you put you credits.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Regards,
Cordel

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:06 pm

do i have to do that now or can i just let anyone use it on a beta trial and when its finished add all that?

Cos yes id quite like to give something back to the forum and make it free (as is free to use etc lol i know it cost my time but hey what the hell u seem a good bunch lol) source code and all

James

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:49 pm

OK then new version up

Features added

Picture in picture view
Quad view with 1 quadrant sequential switch
12 way
16 way
24 way
36 way
Max at the moment is 36 cameras

Alos added a cycle tickbox so
quad will full page seq switch through all 36 cams
7 way etc etc
bigger views ie 24 way and 36 way dont have cycle choice as i assumed you wouldnt want to.
If you onlyt have say 8 cams just repeat the urls through the settings to make your sequences look ok.

Availabel at

http://www.jpwilson.eu/
old version is there too

Old version called ZM4MS.zip

New version ZM4MS_v0.02.zip
**EDIT Removed as too old see above site link**

Let me know if anything is broke or needs changing
Ideas also gladly recieved

James

thelight · Post by **thelight** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:26 pm

I cant seem to download it.

With firefox and ie the file is corrupt, and when i try to download using getright it connects but just stalls when it tries to start downloading.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:36 pm

have you downloaded it and it says corrupt on install or does it not even download.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:44 pm

Im not sure but it may need admin login for the .net 2.0 download from ms.
I have added another zip exe file called zm4ms install in the download directory. As your the sencond person to have issues has anyone succesfully downladed this and used it, or not?

JAmes

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:46 pm

Can you download anything from my server or do i ahev a serious issue my end?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:54 pm

Have tried to get all files on server from 2 different locations in the uk and both worked, so i dunno why you cant.

I can email it you

Post by **zoneminder** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:43 pm

I'm happy to put it up for download here if you want to mail it to me. I don't seem to be able to get anywhere with the http://217.154.38.122/ address.

Phil

Post by **zoneminder** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:33 pm

James has mailed me the viewer so you can now download it from http://www.zoneminder.com/downloads/zm4ms_v0.zip as well as his address.

Phil

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:21 am

thanks phil. Hopefully people will be able to get at it now and ill find out if ive written a dud or something useful to the forum.

James

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:25 pm

think ive fixed my firewall now so you should be able to download from me and view screenshots

James

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:02 am

Corey, I think i have took the viewer as far as it will go. Obviously as you can see im being overloaded with suggestions and ideas nearly as many as the downloads of it, anyway i want to extend it to be a playback too.

When i made an access front end for zm i used the mysql odbc driver. If i do this the data for connecting is hard written into the app, so having it changed from a 'settings menu' is out of my league at the mo. So what i have been wondering is to do it over the web interface just like the viewer does. ie pass the relevant http coammnd to zm and interpret the reply. I have asked phil about the possibility of having a cgi command so the windows app can ask if a paticular monitor is in alarm, the only other way i can see of making alarms work is to make (somehow) the windows app accept inputs itself. I have also looked at doing motion detection too on the local machine but this seems daft as there would be no tie in between client and server. On this point alone i am thinking of just request say once a second if the relevant monitor is in alarm and if so pop up the 'spot monito' much like zm web ui does now. Anyway you get the idea. Plus i assume i can request events from the zm server via a http command. Do you think this has milage or should i have a think about another way of doing this?

James

Post by **cordel** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:47 am

Yes there is already somthing in the server end that you can GET the status info. I peaked at it once some time back but haven't really poked around with it. Give me some time to get some other things here off my plate and I'll see what I can do to help out.
I was also considering at one time making a flash viewer for zm but I am already over loaded learning other things (PHP being a big one as someone wants to pay me to make them something, go figure it's not a small project either) I figure I'll be working on this for the next several months at least. I figure this will also get me where I need to be to help Phil out a bit more and give users some options with the web interface.
At some time I need to learn more about cgi scripting in perl so I can finnish up the Webmin module for ZM and need to really sitdown and finnish the SELinux rules as well.

Regards,
Cordel