Using API

[mr.eskildsen]

Hi,

I am trying to integrate to ZoneMinder using the API. I am on

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version: 1.28.109
apiversion: 1.28.109.1

I am using a Raspberry Pi as IP camera.

I have been looking around to find some documentation on how to use things.....

If can query a monitor to get all events and also find last event, but now I want to check status of both server and camera.
I have started with the Camera and found this:

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http://<my-zoneminder-ip>/zm/api/monitors/daemonStatus/id:1/daemon:zmc.json

This gives me the status of the zmc daemon for monitor 1, just fine. The problem is that when the camera is offline it still reports that the daemon is running (but it restarts all the time). I guess that is the nature of the daemon, but isn't there some possibility to query the monitor to get data to verfy monitor status (Online / Offline as a minimum).
Is it possible??

Where can I find a overview over all possibilities in the API? I found some samples at the ZoneMinder site, but I found more detailed queries in some github repos.

Best regards
Martin

[asker]

The daemon check API also returns a status text, that has substring text like "not running", "pending", "Unable to connect" - you can use those values to check further.

With respect to documentation,
http://zoneminder.readthedocs.org/en/stable/api.html

I think I've covered most scenarios there (with the exception of a few). Let me know if you discover anything that needs to go in there.

Hi,

If can query a monitor to get all events and also find last event, but now I want to check status of both server and camera.
I have started with the Camera and found this:

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http://<my-zoneminder-ip>/zm/api/monitors/daemonStatus/id:1/daemon:zmc.json

This gives me the status of the zmc daemon for monitor 1, just fine. The problem is that when the camera is offline it still reports that the daemon is running (but it restarts all the time). I guess that is the nature of the daemon, but isn't there some possibility to query the monitor to get data to verfy monitor status (Online / Offline as a minimum).
Is it possible??

Where can I find a overview over all possibilities in the API? I found some samples at the ZoneMinder site, but I found more detailed queries in some github repos.

Best regards
Martin