Yep that is what I am going to have to do. There is a recycler here OKC, guy always has good 2nd hand machines. I will grab one of those and use it.
On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 7:53 PM Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes of course it won't - because it was built with that cross platform > nonsense. > > Ionic and cordova use the integrated into either IoS or Android web > browser (WebView) to essentially draw windows and such in the Web browser > then use that as a rendering engine. The Android browser is based > On the Chromium engine which has a restriction of a maximum of 6 incoming > streams thus 6 windows thus > 6 cameras. > > Find a crappy old PC and plug in a giant monitor then load Linux then use > Firefox on it and you can display the > 8 cameras. > > Ted > > -----Original Message----- > From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck Hast > Sent: Monday, May 22, 2023 5:36 PM > To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Updated Ubuntu server and Zoneminder. > > I use it on the desktop. When I want to see something from the phone I > just connect to ZM and look at the image I am interested in. > > But I have a couple of large screens that all I want to see is the camera > images. Right now ZMNinja had decided that it will not display cameras 7 > and 8 on a system that I have running. At my home sistem it does just fine. > I have looked to see why it does not want to display those two camera but > so far no joy. > > I would like to see just a bare bones monitor app for a large screen. The > monitor folks can use their laptops to look at a specific camera, but the > large screen is for others who are also monitoring. > > > On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 4:40 PM Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > As a mobile app ZMNinja isn't that complicated, what makes it complex > > and squirrely is that asker used Cordova to build it so that it would > > run on both iphones and Android phones, and the elephant in the room > > is clearly NOT that he "didn't have time to work on it anymore" but > > that the app is built with a cross-platform mobile framework that people > are abandoning. > > > > Someone needs to step up and migrate it to Capacitor. But that > > someone would NOT be me. If I was going to spend time on this I'd > > scotch the whole thing and write an Android-only app using Android > > Studio and Java. If I was going to code it for money, I'd write an > > IOS app on Xcode and Swift and keep the codebases separate. > > > > The other problem of course is push notifications, there is a group > > out there who insist on having an app buzzing their phone 100 times > > all day when a bird lands in the field of vision. I see the point > > with doorbell cams but the camera companies are only just bringing > > ones on to the market that don't require a subscription to Ring or > something like that. > > > > Ted > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck Hast > > Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2023 12:11 PM > > To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Updated Ubuntu server and Zoneminder. > > > > 1.36.33 > > I wish there was another monitor solution, I have found ZMNinja always > > kind of squirrely. I recall one where it would show the cameras as > > viewable but as soon as you went to look at them they were not there, > > got back to the page where you make them viewable and they would have > > the bar through them. Turn it off and go look, still blocked. Never > > sure WHAT I did but at one point they were all there. I of course > > wonder if some of the issue is ZMNinja being built on Chrome. > > > > Zoneminder is just being ZM, i.e. it just works. I did a OS upgrade > > and thought I had dropped a bomb on it turns out I had NOT killed the > > old Focal PPA and that was causing major issue, killed the PPA and > > made sure the latest one was working did a quick reload, and it came > > back nice and stable as always. > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 12:24 PM Ted Mittelstaedt > > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I had some problem with it myself, seems only to work when I use the > > > "admin" user that has all rights. ZMNinja seems that it's > > > -supposed- to be happy with just view access but I don't think it is > > > - I don't know if it's errors in programming assumptions or whatever > > > - but it seems to assume that it has a lot more rights to the > > > cameras than you > > would think is normal. > > > Not sure what's going on there. What version ZM are you running? > > > > > > Ted > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck Hast > > > Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2023 3:58 PM > > > To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> > > > Subject: [PLUG] Updated Ubuntu server and Zoneminder. > > > > > > Anyone running the latest ZM and Ubuntu server? I just did the > > > update of the whole thing. All seems to be working except that > > > ZMNinja only shows of the 10 cameras I have on the system. If I open > > > the [monitors] section it shows all of the cameras but the ones not > > > showing up have a bar through them. I have tried to get it to allow > > > them but for some > > reason it is not. > > > It was working just fine before I did the upgrade so it maybe > > > something on the Zoneminder end. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- > > > I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. > > > Ph 4:13 KJV > > > Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. > > > Fil 4:13 RVR1960 > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- > > I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. > > Ph 4:13 KJV > > Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. > > Fil 4:13 RVR1960 > > > > > -- > > Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- > I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. > Ph 4:13 KJV > Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. > Fil 4:13 RVR1960 > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Ph 4:13 KJV Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. Fil 4:13 RVR1960
