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Hello:
I've been investigating in the forums and in the web, as well as hacking for a while on the source code, but I have been unable to get this to work.
As you know, when you open a monitor view of some camera, the default zoom rate is "Actual" i.e. "100". I want the monitor view, and only the monitor view, to open with a zoom of 2x i.e. "200" by default.
I've tried to hack zm_html_view_watchfeed.php by inputting the value directly there, and it still won't work.
Is there a way to do this that anyone knows of?

Ive not looked at the source yet, but did a quick couple of tests.

If you click on say cam 1, javascript like this is used

javascript: newWindow( '/zm/index.php?view=watch&mid=1', 'zmWatch1', 416, 624 )

You can get the same effect by pasting this into your browser

http://localhost/zm/index.php?view=watch&mid=1

If you add &scale=200 it does what you want.

http://localhost/zm/index.php?view=watc ... &scale=200




Does that help ?

Did a bit of searching in the source, you need to alter the file zm_html_view_console.php

On version 1.23 , you need line 414 , change it to look like this.

<td align="left" class="text"><?= makeLink( "javascript: newWindow( '$PHP_SELF?view=watch&scale=200&mid=".$monitor['Id']."', 'zmWatch".$monitor['Id']."', ".(reScale( $monitor['Width'], $s


( Just add &scale=200 after ?view=watch )

It would of course be much better if this value was configurable from a setting

Thank you very much, that worked like a charm.
I have another problem now. I installed the patch that lets you click on an image in the montage view to open the monitor view for that camera, and it is not working there, I would assume that the same method to call the stream would be used, but it appears it is not.
Any more valuable advice?
Thanks.

I dont know anything about the patch, first time I've heard of it.

Can you point me to the url for it ?, i'd like to take a look at it anyway.

Here it is: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5028

Has anyone managed to get this to work?

found this today (by mistake)

on the source for your cam, Misc tab, change Default Scale (version 1.23.3)

That changes the scale in which the montage is shown, i just want to change the scale in which the monitor is shown.

Not on my system it doesnt.

Are we talking about the same tab?

Under source (/dev/video) click that, then Misc tab, Default Rate.

On my system (the Live CD) that works.