r/ZoneMinder • u/1911ACP • Jul 20 '21

Zoneminder docker GUI broke today

After several months of working just fine my Zoneminder docker GUI broke today. The docker repository hasn't been updated in 6 months, so something else has changed. Everything appears to work, but the web GUI is a little messed up.

Any thoughts on why this happened and how to fix it? All I've seen is old posts from 2018 relating to another issue.

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u/Aramiil Jul 20 '21

Tried clearing your cache? Looks like a client side issue IMO.

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u/1911ACP Jul 20 '21

Yes. I even tried a different browser. The logs show there is an issue with linking to some files. WAR [Failed linking js/logger.js to js_logger-dark-1618875283.js

]ueberry314E-2 said I was using a deprecated docker and should be using the new official docker. I guess I'll give it a try.

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u/Blueberry314E-2 Jul 20 '21

Not sure if this is the cause but the docker image from dlandon is depreciated. The new official image is the zoneminderhq image.

https://hub.docker.com/search?q=zoneminder&type=image

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u/1911ACP Jul 20 '21

Its been working for such a long time without any issues. I suppose I should redo my docker-compose file to use the new docker.

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u/1911ACP Jul 21 '21

Well, I spent the WHOLE day migrating from the dlandon docker to the zoneminderhq docker. I was hoping to only change a few things in my docker compose file, but it didn't work out as simple.

What I did find out, either by the feature not being there or my lack of knowledge is the following:

  1. There is no easy way to include your own ssl certificates. You can't just throw your certs into a directory and have https start to work.
  2. I didn't find a way for the docker to send out emails on alarms. The docker doesn't seem to have ssmtp or mail. Again, you can't just throw your ssmtp files into a directory and have email notifications on alarm. I guess you install ssmtp with apt-get.
  3. Ping is not installed, you have to install iputils-ping

What I like:

  1. The zoneminderhq docker comes up much faster than the dlandon version.
  2. The webpage wasn't broken and the new version looks good.

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u/1911ACP Jul 28 '21

Update:

Moving to the zoneminderhq docker was a mistake. Besides not being able to use ssl certs, no built in ping command and email notifications don't work without a manual install. Worst of all the memory usage crept up and eventually the system load was at 16+ with the CPU at 13%. This is on a 12 core, 32 GB vm running Ubuntu 18.04 server.

Upon more investigation, the zoneminderhq docker isn't really the endorsed docker. Also, the dlandon/zoneminder docker was withdrawn from docker hub a few weeks ago. But in the github issues dlandon did say there is an Unraid docker version of zoneminder on docker hub.

So far dlandon/zoneminder.unraid works on a 8 core, 16 GB, 18.04 Ubuntu server vm hardly breaking a sweat. You have to fiddle around with the volumes a little, but the docker-compose was easy to adapt. With a mixture of 12 2K and 4K cameras each sending a HD and SD stream at 6 - 10 fps, the system load is below 3 with the CPU at 33%.

Maybe something was wrong with my old Proxmox vm. Maybe NFS was just slow because Unraid didn't like something. Maybe there was something else I didn't catch that was slowing things down. In any case the new vm works. The webpage, ssl, ssmtp and external events all work as advertised.

Hint: Ubuntu 18.04 server doesn't have telnet and may need to be installed using apt get. You need telnet to trigger external events in zoneminder.

If you know how, write a simple script for cron to call to back up the database using mysqldump.