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[zmNinja website](http://pliablepixels.github.io)
zmNinja is a multi platform (iOS, Android, Windows Desktop, Mac Desktop, Linux Desktop) client for ZoneMinder users.
[ZoneMinder](http://www.zoneminder.com) is an incredible open source camera monitoring system and is used
by many for home and commercial security monitoring.
Help
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* Official documents [are here](https://zmninja.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
* If you are looking for the Machine Learning powered [Event Server companion](https://github.com/pliablepixels/zmeventnotification), docs [are here](https://zmeventnotification.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
* Post in the [ZoneMinder Mobile App forum](https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewforum.php?f=33) or find me on ZoneMinder's slack channel (you can join [here](https://join.slack.com/t/zoneminder-chat/shared_invite/enQtNTU0NDkxMDM5NDQwLTlhZDU2MGU4MmZmN2MxOTg1MmNmNmZjZGRmY2EzMThhNGQ0MWNmZTg1ZmYzNDQ4YjliMzVmYTQ3MDc5MTkzODE))
* If you believe you've discovered a bug, please create a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/pliablepixels/zmNinja/issues/)
Before you ask for help
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* Make sure you have read the [FAQ](https://zmninja.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/FAQ.html)
* Make sure you have [validated](https://zmninja.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/validating-api.html) that your APIs are working (if not, its a ZM issue, please post in ZM forums)
* Please don't ask me for help with source compilation if you are not familiar with coding mobile apps - you should try and solve your own problems
Video Demo
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Check out a video demo of zmNinja [here](https://youtu.be/prtA_mv68Ok)
Mobile Platforms
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zmNinja is stable as of today and runs on a variety of Android and iOS platforms.
See links above to get them on play store (Android) and app store (iOS)
It also runs on the desktop (see below)
Desktop Platforms
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Please download binaries from [here](https://github.com/pliablepixels/zmNinja/releases).
Key Features
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* Push Notifications Object detection/face recognition for alarms (Needs the [eventserver](https://github.com/pliablepixels/zmeventserver) to be set up)
* Multiple languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, and more)
* H264 video support
* live views of monitors
* Montage view (with multiple montage profile settings/sizes)
* Events history and list
* Timeline view
* Camera pan/tilt/zoom (needs to have ZM support it first)
* 24hr review
Key Limitations
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* Client certificates are not supported
* If you use self signed certificates, you will likely have to install them in your phone (especially Android)
* If you use Basic Authentication, you'll have to go through additional setup (see FAQ)
Thanks
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To the Zonemider community in general, and the awesome Stack Overflow community.
But specifically, [Andrew Bauer](https://github.com/knight-of-ni) (knight-of-ni) who egged me on to take up this project and [Isaac Connor](http://github.com/connortechnology/) who has been incredibly supportive in helping fix various ZM issues that affected zmNinja.
Important Notes
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* zmNinja needs APIs enabled in ZoneMinder. See [this](https://zmninja.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/validating-api.html) for instructions on how to make sure your APIs are working. If they are not working, zmNinja **will not** work.
Why did I develop zmNinja?
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* I wanted to learn how to write a mobile app. It was (and is) fun.
* I originally reached out to tinyCam to see if they were willing to do an app - did not get a response
* I found zmView limited for my needs
Screenshots:
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