[mythtv-users] mythzoneminder can't show live event screen

[Ian Evans]

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 10:41 AM Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com wrote:

>
> On 08/02/2019 02:50, Ian Evans wrote:
> > Running mythtv 29.1 and zoneminder 1.32.3.
> >
> > Was working great before with an older zoneminder but it currently
> > fails to show the Live Events screen after upgrading zoneminder.
> >
> > Starting mythzmserver gives this info:
> >
> > loading zm config from /etc/zm/zm.conf
> > ZM is version '1.32.3'
> > Listening on port: 6548
> > Failed to get mysql row
> > Failed to shmget for monitor: 2
> > ENOENT - no segment exists for the given key
> > new connection from 127.0.0.1 on socket 5
> >
> > (snip)
>
> Sounds like 1.32.3 has some big changes that may break the MythTV
> plugin. I've not looked but it's possible there have been some database
> changes that would need changes to mythzmserver to pull the right
> information from the database.  Now ZM has a stable API the plugin
> should be updated to use it and remove mythzmserver since it would no
> longer be used. It's unclear what the future of the plugins is since may
> of them require QtWebkit,  the updated plugin would likely use it to
> display live cameras and events,  has been removed in recent Qt releases
> so I doubt anyone will spend much time on it so your best bet at the
> moment is stick with 1.30.4.
>
>
> Paul H.
>

Thanks for the info, Paul. Guess I'll stick with using the web interface.

>
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