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Can I send the camera output to a remote internet webpage?

See: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/External_Live_Stream for one way to do this.

The API method is recommended for security purposes. I'd say if it's a public webpage you might want to proxy it,, and or rewrite the URL to hide any token.

Thanks for responding.

I'll be using Apache2 for serving up webpages.

Some of the other things in the link you provided are kinda strange. I'm not a website developer, per-se. I'm more a dabbler.
My Ring service just hiked their price. It's not a game stopper, but I am experimenting to host my own infrastructure using ZM.

I have a single IP camera to experiment with. Hopefully I'll get a couple more.

Can i use you for questions about the External_Live_Stream document.

Thanks,
Ray

No worries, ask away. I put that together although it is adapted from the official docs (with some changes).

What are the "official documents" you mention?

I'm referring to the instructions for getting a token, which are from: https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html

What needs to be done is some work on setting up a proper proxy or rewrite so that you can put these streams on an internet website without the token being exposed. I haven't needed to do this, so I haven't looked into it.

The internet has something like this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/230 ... -ip-camera
You have to use the right search terms, I found "stream video webpage ip camera" was better than just "restream video on webpage".

In the External Live Stream wiki, there is reference to a link: <img src='https://yourserverwanipordns/zm/cgi-bin......

What is the yourserverwanipordns? I assume it's just the ZM server "localhost", or IP?

Thanks,

Ray

It's the internet IP address or DNS that someone could use to get to your zm server's local address.