{"id":123,"date":"2014-12-30T10:11:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T10:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2014-12-30T10:19:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T10:19:26","slug":"zoneminder-1-28-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/2014-12\/zoneminder-1-28-api\/","title":{"rendered":"ZoneMinder 1.28 API"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the holidays, I rebuild my CCTV server. Rather than trying to reuse the\u00a0installation from the previous disk, I thought it’d be easier just to install everything fresh. Hence, I followed the instructions on the ZoneMinder Wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following on from this rebuild, I was tidying up my custom viewers which had hard-coded monitor IDs. Of course the correct way to do this would be via an API. Is there an API in ZoneMinder? Well according to the “latest” docs<\/a>, it should be included since 1.27.<\/p>\n

[code lang=”bash”]curl http:\/\/wiggum\/zm\/api\/monitors.json
\n…404 Not Found…[\/code]<\/p>\n

So I checked if it was actually there or not:<\/p>\n

[code lang=”bash”]iain@wiggum:~$ ls \/usr\/share\/zoneminder\/
\najax\u00a0 cgi-bin\u00a0 css\u00a0 db\u00a0 events\u00a0 graphics\u00a0 images\u00a0 includes\u00a0 index.php\u00a0 js\u00a0 lang\u00a0 skins\u00a0 sounds\u00a0 temp\u00a0 tools\u00a0 views[\/code]<\/p>\n

Nope.<\/p>\n

Not sure why it’s not there, you can see it on GitHub<\/a>, but here’s how I solved it until the package is updated properly. (I’m omitting the use of sudo where needed.)<\/p>\n

[code lang=”bash”]cd \/usr\/src
\ngit clone https:\/\/github.com\/ZoneMinder\/ZoneMinder.git –branch release-1.28 zoneminder-1.28
\nmkdir\u00a0zoneminder-1.28\/web\/api\/app\/tmp
\nchown www-data:www-data\u00a0zoneminder-1.28\/web\/api\/app\/tmp[\/code]<\/p>\n

[code lang=”bash”]vi zoneminder-1.28\/web\/api\/.htaccess[\/code]
\nAdd: RewriteBase \/zm\/api<\/code><\/p>\n

[code lang=”bash”]vi zoneminder-1.28\/web\/api\/app\/webroot\/.htaccess[\/code]
\nAdd: RewriteBase \/zm\/api<\/code><\/p>\n

[code lang=”bash”]cd\u00a0zoneminder-1.28\/web\/api\/app\/Config\/
\ncp\u00a0core.php.default core.php
\ncp\u00a0database.php.default\u00a0database.php
\nvi database.php[\/code]
\nChange the database settings (host, login, database, password) to match:\u00a0\/etc\/zm\/zm.conf<\/code><\/p>\n

[code lang=”bash”]vi \/etc\/apache2\/conf-available\/zoneminder-api.conf[\/code]
\nAdd the following:
\n[code]Alias \/zm\/api \/usr\/src\/zoneminder-1.28\/web\/api
\n<Directory \/usr\/src\/zoneminder-1.28\/web\/api>
\nOptions Indexes FollowSymLinks
\nAllowOverride All
\nRequire all granted
\n<\/Directory>[\/code]<\/p>\n

Enable the conf, restart apache\u00a0and you’re done:
\n[code lang=”bash”]a2enconf zoneminder-api
\napachectl graceful[\/code]<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to enable mod_rewrite if it isn’t already:
\n[code lang=”bash”]a2enmod rewrite[\/code]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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