new source path

[dougmccrary]

How do I cram this from 1.36.25 into .21?

rtsp://192.168.1.217:554/user=admin_password=Buffy4@sdCA_channel=0_stream=1.sdp?real_stream

gave

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[iconnor]

@ symbols really mess up url parsing. All the special characters are not valid in a URL. They have to be % encoded. So the @ has to be %40

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP

[dougmccrary]

Yes, but that's not really part of the the URL, is it? anyway I changed it in 1.36 and copy/paste into 1.37, and it does this:

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and looks like this on the console

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but it doesn't work on either...because the camera wants the plain @, I suppose.

This works in 1.36

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[iconnor]

We are going to need to see debug logs.

Everything in the url is url and must be properly encoded. Just because it generally works, doesn't mean it is correct.

This is actually why we now have the separate username and password fields, to deal with weird characters in the password.

But this cam wants it in the query part of the url. We are probably url-encoding what we are given before sending to the cam, and so we have a double url-encoding. At least that's my suspicion.

[dougmccrary]

OK. Makes sense.

So what log(s) do you need?

Please give settings as I don't really understand how those settings work - Maybe because I didn't restart after trying change them?

[iconnor]

Options->Logging->ZM_DEBUG checked
LOG_DEBUG_TARGET => clear or _zmc
LOG_DEBUG_LEVEL => 3

restart. Then /var/log/zm/zmc_mwhateveridnumber.log should have lots of great debugging info.

I was under the impression that the console should filter auth etc out of the source url. This is controlled by Options->Web->WEB_FILTER_SOURCE

[dougmccrary]

I have the web filter turned off.
I’ll get back later with the log.
Thanks!

[dougmccrary]

Not sure this says much useful.

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09/16/22 00:33:16.564975 zmc_m19[92491].ERR-zmc.cpp/267 [Failed to prime capture of initial monitor]
09/16/22 00:33:22.605734 zmc_m19[92491].ERR-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/323 [Unable to open input rtsp://192.168.1.219:554/user=admin_password=Buffy4%40sdCA_channel=0_stream=1.sdp?real_stream due to: Server returned 4XX Client Error, but not one of 40{0,1,3,4}]
09/16/22 00:33:22.605798 zmc_m19[92491].ERR-zmc.cpp/267 [Failed to prime capture of initial monitor]
09/16/22 00:33:29.636744 zmc_m19[92491].ERR-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/323 [Unable to open input rtsp://192.168.1.219:554/user=admin_password=Buffy4%40sdCA_channel=0_stream=1.sdp?real_stream due to: Server returned 4XX Client Error, but not one of 40{0,1,3,4}]
09/16/22 00:33:29.636910 zmc_m19[92491].ERR-zmc.cpp/267 [Failed to prime capture of initial monitor]
09/16/22 00:33:37.661843 zmc_m19[92491].ERR-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/323 [Unable to open input rtsp://192.168.1.219:554/user=admin_password=Buffy4%40sdCA_channel=0_stream=1.sdp?real_stream due to: Server returned 4XX Client Error, but not one of 40{0,1,3,4}]
09/16/22 00:33:37.661927 zmc_m19[92491].ERR-zmc.cpp/267 [Failed to prime capture of initial monitor]
09/16/22 00:33:46.695421 zmc_m19[92491].ERR-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/323 [Unable to open input rtsp://192.168.1.219:554/user=admin_password=Buffy4%40sdCA_channel=0_stream=1.sdp?real_stream due to: Server returned 4XX Client Error, but not one of 40{0,1,3,4}]
09/16/22 00:33:46.695496 zmc_m19[92491].ERR-zmc.cpp/267 [Failed to prime capture of initial monitor]
09/16/22 00:33:56.696152 zmc_m19[92491].ERR-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/323 [Unable to open input rtsp://192.168.1.219:554/user=admin_password=Buffy4%40sdCA_channel=0_stream=1.sdp?real_stream due to: Immediate exit requested]

I notice the user and password fields are not shown when used, even with the web filter turned off. Not sure I like that.

[iconnor]

You didn't follow my instructions for turning on debug. Those logs contain no debugging info.

[dougmccrary]

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Options->Logging->ZM_DEBUG checked (LOG_DEBUG ?)
LOG_DEBUG_TARGET => clear or _zmc
LOG_DEBUG_LEVEL => 3

So maybe something else is wonky?

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then
$ sudo service zoneminder restart
And even a reboot...
and LOG_DEBUG_TARGET blank and _zmc along with LOG_DEBUG_LEVEL UP TO 9
So I'm at a loss.

[iconnor]

Ok, LOG_LEVEL_FILE also needs to be set to DEBUG

[dougmccrary]

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Might be truncated, but I think it's probably a full set...

[iconnor]

Wow... 451 not available due to legal reasons!

I think what we need to do here, is smarten up the username/password stripping out code so that it doesn't mange the url. I don't really understand why it doesn't like the % encoded url... but at the end of the day I think we should send what the user has put in regardless of whether it is right or not.

So... stay tuned.

[dougmccrary]

Yeah, I have very mixed feelings about that, but I guess ya gotta do what works.

Thanks for your time.