[SOLVED] Viewing recorded and outsourced streams in Firefox

[Raymondo]

Hello,

in "options" --> "paths" I changed DIR_EVENTS from "events" to "/media/[name_of_storage]/events" to outsource the images done by zoneminder on an exteral storage.

When zoneminder performs an "event" I can see the live stream. But when I want to open recorded images or streams nothing happens, although the images are existing on the external storage.

To test i if the standard parameter works, I set the DIR_EVENTS back to "events" and everything is okay.

How can this problem be solved?

Regards

Ray

[Raymondo]

Ok, after googling a long time I got the advice to create a symlink.

I renamed the folder event in /var/cache/zoneminder/ to event_old,
opened a terminal and wrote:

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ln -s  /media/zone/events /var/cache/zoneminder/

But the problem is still there. I can't open streams from the external HDD with Firefox.

Regards

Ray

[Raymondo]

Ok, when the symlink is set, the entry in DIR_EVENTS has to be "events" and NOT "/media/zone/events"

Now it works fine.

Regards

Ray

[mseco]

that is a nice workaroung. I have the same problem and I looked in the /var/log/messages and it gives this message:

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 zms[31136]: ERR [Can't open /usr/share/zoneminder/www//mnt/SmallVille1/recording/1/1064/001-capture.jpg: No such file or directory]

It's a bug in the application code. It expects a relative path to the instalation dir:/usr/share/zoneminder/www/

I will use the workaround until it's fixed.