Quick and dirty public website display

[mycal]

I wanted to display one of my monitors on my public website hosted at godaddy, nothing real time, just updated ever min or so.

Here is my super simple and dirty hack:

Create a shell script "putpic" on the zoneminder box with the following (change monitor-X to the monitor you wish to upload:

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wget "http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/zm/zms?mode=single&monitor=X&scale=100" -O /tmp/tmp.jpg
curl -T /tmp/tmp.jpg <yourwebsite>/webcam/put.php

On godaddy or other web host make a file called put.php, in this test case this file is in a writable directory called webcam (IE webcam/put.php):

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<?php
/* PUT data comes in on the stdin stream */
$putdata = fopen("php://input", "r");

/* Open a file for writing */
$fp = fopen("image.jpg", "w");

/* Read the data 1 KB at a time
   and write to the file */
while ($data = fread($putdata, 1024))
  fwrite($fp, $data);

/* Close the streams */
fclose($fp);
fclose($putdata);
?>

Finally hook "putpic" in a crontab on the zoneminder box at 1 or 2 min

Then link the image to display in your webpage /webcam/image.jpg

This is a very dirty hack, the put.php should not be in the writable directory and authentication should be added, you should even make sure the uploaded file is of a certain size and actually an image file.


Have fun, hope it is useful for someone

Mycal