[RELEASE] ZoneMinder CCTV Addon

markhoney · 2010-10-31 09:16

For anyone out there who uses ZoneMinder, I've created an addon that allows you to connect to a ZoneMinder server and view camera feeds. The addon is in the official repository, so anyone using Dharma should be able to grab it from within XBMC.

I'd be interested in anyone who ends up trying out this addon, especially if you're using hashed authentication. It seemed to work okay when I tested it, but I'd love to have independent confirmation that all's well.

I may release a new version soon, with the option to specify an IP address for the hash. This would be useful for people who have ticked the option in ZoneMinder to include the IP in the calculated hash for authentication, but are going through a proxy or some other fanangled networking which causes the IP that ZoneMinder sees to be different to the IP of the box XBMC is running on.

I also have a script for more generic streams, which I've been using with VLC on Linux. I've created a VLM config file for VLC which allows me to create streams from multiple webcams attached to a PC, and additionally create a "mosaic" of all the webcams in one HD stream. Once I'm happy that the script and the VLC solution are working okay (VLC currently seems to use a lot of CPU transcoding the streams, and I'd like to look into minimising this) I'll probably release the script and add a tutorial for VLC on this forum.

Therms · 2010-12-04 00:00

markhoney Wrote:For anyone out there who uses ZoneMinder, I've created an addon that allows you to connect to a ZoneMinder server and view camera feeds. The addon is in the official repository, so anyone using Dharma should be able to grab it from within XBMC.

I'd be interested in anyone who ends up trying out this addon, especially if you're using hashed authentication. It seemed to work okay when I tested it, but I'd love to have independent confirmation that all's well.

I may release a new version soon, with the option to specify an IP address for the hash. This would be useful for people who have ticked the option in ZoneMinder to include the IP in the calculated hash for authentication, but are going through a proxy or some other fanangled networking which causes the IP that ZoneMinder sees to be different to the IP of the box XBMC is running on.

I also have a script for more generic streams, which I've been using with VLC on Linux. I've created a VLM config file for VLC which allows me to create streams from multiple webcams attached to a PC, and additionally create a "mosaic" of all the webcams in one HD stream. Once I'm happy that the script and the VLC solution are working okay (VLC currently seems to use a lot of CPU transcoding the streams, and I'd like to look into minimising this) I'll probably release the script and add a tutorial for VLC on this forum.

I haven't had a chance to test this yet as I haven't got ZM set up yet, but I'll definitely give you some feedback when I get it done.

philw · 2010-12-20 01:32

Hi Mark

Great idea for XBMC add on

tried it on my setup and getting the message 'Warning No Camera Found'

i can access zm from http://servername/zm usual and have setup user pass etc without hashed auth.

any ideas?

running version 1.23.3 of zm

cheers

jrusi · 2010-12-23 17:16

Hi, it is a great idea!

I'm using jpegs to view the picture from cameras instead of mpeg.
I can start the plugin and I can see thumbnails but when select any camera I get:

Quote:09:14:00 T:3078018928 M:1530134528 NOTICE: Parsing ASX
09:14:00 T:3078018928 M:1530134528 ERROR: Unable to parse ASX info Error: Error document empty.
09:14:00 T:3078018928 M:1529372672 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: http://myurl.com/cgi-bin/nph-zms?monitor...;$word
09:14:00 T:3078018928 M:1529372672 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
09:14:00 T:2949389168 M:1529372672 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528856576 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: Opening video stream: 0 source: 256
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 ERROR: CDVDPlayerVideo::OpenStream - Invalid framerate 1000, using forced 25fps and just trust timestamps
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 17
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: Creating video thread
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: eof, waiting for queues to empty
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: closing video stream
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: Closing video stream
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::WaitUntilEmpty
09:14:01 T:3075468144 M:1528221696 NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: waiting for video thread to exit
09:14:01 T:3075468144 M:1528221696 ERROR: Got MSGQ_ABORT or MSGO_IS_ERROR return true
09:14:01 T:3075468144 M:1528221696 NOTICE: thread end: video_thread
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: deleting video codec
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting demuxer
09:14:01 T:2949389168 M:1528221696 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
09:14:01 T:3078018928 M:1528246272 ERROR: XLCDproc::SetBackLight - Unable to write to socket
09:14:01 T:3078018928 M:1528246272 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
09:14:01 T:3078018928 M:1528246272 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
09:14:01 T:3078018928 M:1528246272 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
09:14:01 T:3078018928 M:1528246272 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
09:14:01 T:3078018928 M:1529516032 ERROR: XLCDproc::SetBackLight - Unable to write to socket

mpeg cannot be found because there is no mpeg stream, only jpeg.
Any idea how to fix it without changing in ZM from jpeg to mpeg?

Targettio · 2011-01-25 14:44

Hi, great idea for a script.

I don't know much about Zoneminder, but it would be cool if you could make it so when my doorbell rings (or any motion detected at my front door cam) the video I am watching pauses and a popup showing the front door cam stream, like this thread.

aivs · 2011-03-23 12:35

i can' t start ZoneMinder plugin from XMBC
it's log

Code:

10:34:00 T:2901285744 M:2905022464  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--

10:34:01 T:2901285744 M:2903752704  NOTICE: Grabbing URL: http://zoneminder/zm/?skin=classic

10:34:01 T:2901285744 M:2903752704  NOTICE: Requesting page: http://zoneminder/zm/?skin=classic

10:34:01 T:2901285744 M:2903752704   ERROR: Error Type: urllib2.HTTPError

10:34:01 T:2901285744 M:2903752704   ERROR: Error Contents: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required

10:34:01 T:2901285744 M:2903244800   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):

                                              File "/home/aivs/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.zoneminder/default.py", line 170, in ?

                                                listcameras()

                                              File "/home/aivs/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.zoneminder/default.py", line 147, in listcameras

                                                doc = gethtmlpage(url)

                                              File "/home/aivs/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.zoneminder/default.py", line 47, in gethtmlpage

                                                response = urllib2.urlopen(req)

                                              File "../Python/Lib/urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen

                                                return _opener.open(url, data)

                                              File "../Python/Lib/urllib2.py", line 364, in open

                                                response = meth(req, response)

                                              File "../Python/Lib/urllib2.py", line 471, in http_response

                                                response = self.parent.error(

                                              File "../Python/Lib/urllib2.py", line 402, in error

                                                return self._call_chain(*args)

                                              File "../Python/Lib/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain

                                                result = func(*args)

                                              File "../Python/Lib/urllib2.py", line 480, in http_error_default

                                                raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

                                            HTTPError: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required

10:34:01 T:3020281728 M:2903244800   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.zoneminder/

10:34:01 T:3020281728 M:2903244800   ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.zoneminder/) failed

10:34:01 T:3020281728 M:2903248896 WARNING: GetLabel - Unknown nodetype requested 0

10:34:08 T:3020281728 M:2901295104  NOTICE: Storing total System Uptime

10:34:08 T:3020281728 M:2901295104  NOTICE: Saving settings

10:34:08 T:3020281728 M:2901295104  NOTICE: stop all

10:34:08 T:3020281728 M:2901295104  NOTICE: ES: Stopping event server

10:34:09 T:2932538224 M:2901581824  NOTICE: ES: UDP Event server stopped

10:34:09 T:2949323632 M:2901581824  NOTICE: DS: DBUS server stopped

10:34:09 T:3020281728 M:2901581824  NOTICE: stop dvd detect media

10:34:09 T:3020281728 M:2901581824  NOTICE: stop sap announcement listener

10:34:09 T:3020281728 M:2901581824  NOTICE: clean cached files!

10:34:09 T:3020281728 M:2901581824  NOTICE: unload skin

10:34:09 T:3020281728 M:2909962240  NOTICE: stop python

10:34:09 T:3020281728 M:2912501760  NOTICE: stopped

10:34:09 T:3020281728 M:2912501760  NOTICE: destroy

10:34:09 T:3020281728 M:2912501760  NOTICE: unload sections

markhoney · 2011-03-23 12:57

aivs, it looks like you may be going through a proxy:

Error Contents: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required

If this isn't the case, it may be ZoneMinder authentication that's causing this. What auth method have you setup in ZoneMinder?

aivs · 2011-03-23 13:44

markhoney Wrote:aivs, it looks like you may be going through a proxy:

Error Contents: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required

If this isn't the case, it may be ZoneMinder authentication that's causing this. What auth method have you setup in ZoneMinder?

I have asked the admin to switch off proxy for me.

Can this plugin work with out internet connection ?

markhoney · 2011-03-23 13:47

If ZoneMinder is running on the same box as XBMC, you can connect without an internet connection by using the loopback IP address, 127.0.0.1.

Obviously, if the Zoneminder service is running on another machine, the XBMC machine needs to talk to it over the network!

aivs · 2011-03-23 16:58

Admin switch off proxy, and now in ~.xbmc/temp/XBMC.log

00:44:46 T:2905127792 M:3180322816 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
00:44:46 T:2905127792 M:3180322816 NOTICE: Grabbing URL: http://zoneminder/zm/?skin=classic
00:44:46 T:2905127792 M:3180322816 NOTICE: Requesting page: http://zoneminder/zm/?skin=classic
00:44:46 T:2905127792 M:3180322816 ERROR: Error Type: urllib2.URLError
00:44:46 T:2905127792 M:3180322816 ERROR: Error Contents: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
00:44:46 T:2905127792 M:3180322816 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/aivs/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.zoneminder/default.py", line 170, in ?
listcameras()
File "/home/aivs/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.zoneminder/default.py", line 147, in listcameras
doc = gethtmlpage(url)
File "/home/aivs/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.zoneminder/default.py", line 47, in gethtmlpage
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
File "../Python/Lib/urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data)
File "../Python/Lib/urllib2.py", line 358, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "../Python/Lib/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open
'_open', req)
File "../Python/Lib/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "../Python/Lib/urllib2.py", line 1021, in http_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
File "../Python/Lib/urllib2.py", line 996, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
URLError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
00:44:46 T:3021739904 M:3180322816 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.zoneminder/
00:44:46 T:3021739904 M:3180322816 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.zoneminder/) failed
00:44:46 T:3021739904 M:3180322816 WARNING: GetLabel - Unknown nodetype requested 0

When i disconnectet, i can't open all plugins.
XBMC-->Videos-->Video Add-ons-->Remote share Network is not connected

philw Junior Member Posts: 1 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0	2010-12-20 01:32 Post: #3 Hi Mark Great idea for XBMC add on tried it on my setup and getting the message 'Warning No Camera Found' i can access zm from http://servername/zm usual and have setup user pass etc without hashed auth. any ideas? running version 1.23.3 of zm cheers
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Targettio Senior Member Posts: 160 Joined: Aug 2010 Reputation: 0	2011-01-25 14:44 Post: #5 Hi, great idea for a script. I don't know much about Zoneminder, but it would be cool if you could make it so when my doorbell rings (or any motion detected at my front door cam) the video I am watching pauses and a popup showing the front door cam stream, like this thread.
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