I've been using Home Assistant for a while, but never really spending a lot of time on it.
However, as of recently, I've started playing with it a bit more and one of the things that I wanted to do was incorporate my Zoneminder cameras onto the platform.
This is rather easy with a few lines in the configuration.yaml according to the documentation at the Home Assistant page.
zoneminder:
- host: ZM_HOST
username: ZM_USER
password: ZM_PASSWORD
You can add path and path_zms variables if you want.
However, I was having some problems. I kept on getting a json decoder error.
simplejson.errors.jsondecodeerror: expecting value: line 2 column 1 (char 1)
I initially only had the host, username and password but decided to add the paths. That didn't help. I googled for answers and nothing came up that would suit this.
I couldn't figure out what was going on for a while until I did a tcpdump on the pod and noticed I was getting redirected for certain lines and 404 in others. I then looked at the server longs and that's when I realised, I was hitting the wrong site.
What I mean is, I run multiple applications on this one host and I was going to the host by IP. I was therefore was getting a different site than intended. At first, I disabled the site to test until it finally clicked. I'm going to the host by IP in my Home Assistant configuration.
I switched the host value from IP to FQDN and voila! Everything started working.
