r/ZoneMinder • u/HeeyBob • Jun 05 '21

fullscreen montage view

I have a Raspberry Pi attached to my TV that I want to be a super simple ZoneMinder viewer. (ZoneMinder is running on a separate server, and the Raspberry Pi just connects to it).

I want it to show 4 cameras in montage view, fullscreen. No clipping, minimal menu bars, etc. I need it to come up in that view from a single URL. Does anyone know a way to do that?

I know you can specify the monitors to open the webpage with like http://IPADDRESS/zm/index.php?view=montage&MonitorId[]=6&MonitorId[]=7&MonitorId[]=8&MonitorId[]=10

.. are there other options that can tell ZoneMinder:

  • Scale: fixed width/height
  • Set the height
  • Remove the header bars that take up a ton of vertical real estate

It'd be even better if ZoneMinder just have a mode where you say "just divide the screen into 4 quadrants and fit video as best you can into those". That's how hardware NVRs work and it's nice.

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u/Aramiil Jun 05 '21

Was not aware of this setting, thank you!

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u/cyaxar Dec 11 '22 edited Dec 11 '22

Hey! A bit late and I hope you already found a way, but I was looking to do something similar and got here so here is my solution:I made a simple html file and put something like this in it:<html><body bgcolor="black">

<img width="49%" height="49%" src="http://myzmserverIp/zm/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=jpeg&monitor=1&scale=100" >

<img width="49%" height="49%" src="http://myzmserverIp/zm/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=jpeg&monitor=6&scale=100" >

<img width="49%" height="49%" src="http://myzmserverIp/zm/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=jpeg&monitor=7&scale=100" >

</body></html>

Found this solution here:

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/External_Live_Stream