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

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