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Hello all,

Is there any way I can serve an Xi View via an unathenticated URL, or through some sort of an API? I have a raspberry pi digital signage setup that can serve a web page via a url on boot. How would I be able to provide my view rotation via a single URL?

Thank you.

I am not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but here's what you can try:

1. Create a "read only" user that can see all objects (Admin->Manage Users).
2. Go to "Views", click on the "Get Permalink" link on the drop-down menu in the upper-right corner, and copy the link.
3. Copy the "username", and the "ticket" from the "Backend API URL" component (Admin->Manage Components->Backend API URL->Edit Settings->select the "read only" user from the drop-down menu->Apply Settings)
4. Append the username/ticket portion to the permalink URL, i.e.

http://x.x.x.x/nagiosxi/views/?&xiwindo ... %2Ftac.php&username=rouser&ticket=gtmu400ors73tt7587n0vnvpnn07qhdac36e076s3ast722d8od6fau42sapbk4l

Now, you can use this URL without the need to authenticate, start/stop rotation, and switch to full screen by clicking on the blue plus button (upper-left).

Hope this helps.

This is not exactly what I was looking for, but it is very helpful in another project I am working on. What I do right now is have a raspberry pi 2 set up with Raspian that auto logs in, launches the Iceweasel browser, go fullscreen, load views screen, then use a bit of javascript with greasemonkey extension in Iceweasel in order to "click" the blue square in order to go full screen. This seems to work well for a local hud here in the office on a 55" TV and it's all automatic from a power-off state.

At any rate, this answers my question. Thanks!
-Kenny

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