How can I see streaming video from remote browser

[j1mw3b]

I think I have Zoneminder running OK with my el-cheapo Sensoray 611 card.
640x480 and 5 fps for 2 cameras. Gonna add two more and cut to 1 fps (card limit).

I would like to share one or two of the cameras to my relatives up in Nova Scotia - pics of the pool, etc.

I was using motion http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome and it allows me to open additional ports - 1 for each camera.

Can I do this with Zoneminder? I searched the documentation/FAQs and don't see it.

Thanks,

Jim

[j1mw3b]

BTW, if you want to see a great surveillance camera, check this one out.
OK, maybe this is not appropriate for this forum, but I wish I could afford a camera like this one.

It's where my relatives live.

http://www.novascotiawebcams.ca/~digbyharbour/

Thanks,

Jim

[cordel]

The only way I can think of is to have Apache proxy the ports. ZM will not do this natively. I would look through Apaches documentation to see if is a possibility.

[Blazer]

To let them watch a live video feed just give them this URL:

http://YourServer/zm/index.php?view=wat ... &scale=100

Where YourServer is the IP or DNS name of your ZM host, and "mid=1", the 1 is the monitor id.

Note that the video feed will use a bit of your bandwith and extra CPU on your ZM server, I would give them my next suggestion:

To let them see a still of a feed give them this URL:
http://YourServer/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode= ... &scale=100

Where YourServer is the IP or DNS name of your ZM host, and "monitor=1", the 1 is the monitor id.

This will give them a current frame from the camera, they can hit refresh in their browser to update the image at will.

P.S. It is not a typo, one URL uses mid= and the other uses monitor=

[cordel]

True as blazer said and also you can set user rights in ZM which include what monitors they can view.

[j1mw3b]

Using http://yourserver/zm/index.php?view=wat ... &scale=100

I just get the messate that "view 'watchfeed' does not exist". I found index.php in /srv/www/htdocs/zm and sure enuf, it's not there.
I am sure this is part of the magic of Apache, but being a novice Apache guy, is there an example anywhere of how to set this up?

Thanks,

Jim

[cordel]

correct it doesn't exist, it a typo.

should be some thing like
http://<Your_host>/zm/index.php?view=watch&mid=1

[Blazer]

Oops sorry for the typo! Thanks cordel

[j1mw3b]

Thanks all.

That works and even with Internet Explorer.

Now I will try to figure out how to add users and limit what they see.

I am getting the itch to add more cameras and another card, or replace this one with a better one.

Thanks again

Jim

[j1mw3b]

Ummmm.... another question please?

I got the users figured out - that was easy.

Now, I realize that in order to view this from a remote browser, I must forward port 80.

Maybe this is beyond the scope of this forum, but if anyone else has done it pls let me know.

I would still like to use ports 80 and 8080 for local requests. Is there a way to have Zoneminder have it's "view" on a different port?

I got a feeling it's not doable, but opening up 80 to the world is not desirable at all.

BTW, this Zoneminder is one terrific program.

Thanks,

Jim

[allanE]

If I understand you correctly,I think that "port forwarding" through a firewall/router would do the trick. I have a router which forwards to several different machines and when I need to call machine#1 I forward port my.ip:11000 to port 80 on the zoneminder machine. That would leave the machine locally accessible by port 80 and remotely by whatever port you want,or port 11000 in this example.
Allan

[j1mw3b]

Yes. That would do it. I didn't think about that - normally I only forward incoming ports to specific IPs.

This would be proxying one port to another which is then forwarded to a specific IP.

I have to peer into my Netscreen firewall and figure out how to do this little trick.

Thanks,

Jim

[j1mw3b]

OK. That worked great.

Thanks very much for all the help.

Jim