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In ZM 1.25, I could keep my 'stream' (displays certain cameras on living room wall) account logged in for days, if not weeks at a time. Now in 1.28.1, the monitor feeds will freeze (not a set amount of time, random), I hit refresh and I have to log in again with guest account, whereas before I could just hit refresh.

I have not tried with admin account, yet.

Are there any settings I can look into?

Thank you

Ben

I tried with admin account as well, no difference.

I disabled user authentication and same result.

well, the only way I could get around this was to turn off authentication and install an add on for firefox to autoreload every 15 minutes.
not ideal, however.

I've been trying to find out the same too - haven't figured out (yet) which part of the code is doing this. There are no cookies that control this for sure. You said it was random -- do you know an approximate time period?

Also, can you check something for me -- please go to the directory where zone minder is installed and let me know if you have a file called core.php somewhere there

thx

asker wrote: Also, can you check something for me -- please go to the directory where zone minder is installed and let me know if you have a file called core.php somewhere there

thx

There is no core.php ANYWHERE including /usr/share/zoneminder (where zm looks to be installed)

Okay, thanks that at least eliminates one area of research.
I'll keep digging -- I'm probably missing something staring right at me. I'll let you know if I find something.

Based on what I have seen so far, there are a few candidates:

a) ZM's authentication logic is resetting the authentication session after some time
b) PHP has a session timeout
c) CakePHP has a session timeout (used for APIs)

You have already eliminated c) -- no core.php
As far as b goes, you said this was never an issue with 1.25, so I doubt it

The probable candidate therefore is a), but I can't (Yet) find why this is happening. I don't see any session cookies that expire in a few minutes or hours. I also don't see any logic that is checking for timeout anywhere or re-computing hash based on time

I suspect php session timeout...

This behavior is back.. Chrome on linux and chromebook with ZM on Ubuntu Server 20.04