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Hi,

I have a problem when using the Zoneminder component in Homeassistant. It won't let me login, gives me error "Connection error logging into ZoneMinder. I have tried both ip-address and domainname as host but cannot get it to work.

Then I thought that I can use the API with curl commands instead and see if that would work. I get the error below. I am using zmeventnotification and that works like a charm.

johnny@UBUNTU:~$ curl -XPOST -c cookies.txt -d "user=username&pass=password&stateful=1" https://mydomain.com:443/zm/api/host/login.json
{"success":false,"data":{"name":"Login denied for user "username"","message":"Login denied for user "username"","url":"\/zm\/api\/host\/login.json","exception":{"class":"UnauthorizedException","code":401,"message":"Login denied for user \"username\""}}}

I think there might be the same problem for both Homeassistant component and Zoneminder API.
Any ideas?

Login denied basically means that the password was wrong, or the user is disabled or not found.

I see, changed my password to a new password without any special characters and then I can login.
When using the command: "curl http://server/zm/api/monitors.json -b cookies.txt" I get error message below.

{"success":false,"data":{"name":"Not Authenticated","message":"Not Authenticated","url":"\/zm\/api\/monitors\/1.json","exception":{"class":"UnauthorizedException","code":401,"message":"Not Authenticated"}}}

You need to add a stateful=1

The API is stateless, so now if you want to use cookies, etc you have to specifically tell it to. Otherwise add the user=&pass= to every request

Should home assistant be working with Zoneminder? I was under the impression that it was broken until the HA ZM component was updated to use newer API auth method.

With ZM 1.33.14~20191020114516-bionic I am still getting these in error log:
2019-10-21 22:04:24 Error: [UnauthorizedException] Not Authenticated
Request URL: /zm/api/host/getVersion.json
Stack Trace:
#0 /usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/lib/Cake/Event/CakeEventManager.php(243): AppController->beforeFilter(Object(CakeEvent))
#1 /usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/lib/Cake/Controller/Controller.php(677): CakeEventManager->dispatch(Object(CakeEvent))
#2 /usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/lib/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php(189): Controller->startupProcess()
#3 /usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/lib/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php(167): Dispatcher->_invoke(Object(HostController), Object(CakeRequest))
#4 /usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/app/webroot/index.php(107): Dispatcher->dispatch(Object(CakeRequest), Object(CakeResponse))
#5 {main}

iconnor wrote: ↑Fri Oct 18, 2019 5:32 pm You need to add a stateful=1

The API is stateless, so now if you want to use cookies, etc you have to specifically tell it to. Otherwise add the user=&pass= to every request

Thank you for this! if you can please add it to the API documentation