Welcome to the home of Motion, a software motion detector.

Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from cameras. It is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion. See more below.

Documentation

• Motion Guide - A very detailed online documentation
• Frequently Asked Questions

Download

• Downloads
• SVN
• Git

Support

• Support Requests
• Bug Reports
• Feature Requests
• Mailing List
• FreeNode IRC
• Twitter

• Working Devices
• Non Working Devices
• Working Config Files
• User Feedback
• Affiliated Business

Development

• Motion Patches - contribute your modification and see what others have shared

• Related Projects (incl video4linux loopback device)

• Technology
• Road Map
  • Motion Rearchitecture Discussion, Motion Watchdog, Extend Replace Conversion Specifiers Discussion, Motion Plugin Index, VideoForLinuxTwoDiscussion,

• Motion at Sourceforge - for file releases.

• Motion Http API new for 3.2, XML RPC API old for 3.1
• Motion Tracking

• Miscellaneous Information - Information that does not fit in any other bucket

What is Motion?

Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion.

The program is written in C and is made for the Linux operating system, (using the video4linux interface). Motion is a command line based tool whose output can be either jpeg, ppm fies or mpeg video sequences. Motion is strictly command line driven and can run as a daemon with a rather small footprint and do.

Motion is the perfect tool for keeping an eye on your property, keeping only those images that are interesting.

• See the list of features to learn more about what Motion can do.
• View examples of images created by Motion.
• See live examples of Motion in real life.
• View examples of Motion config-files in action.

Motion download files are hosted at Sourceforge : Motion at Sourceforge

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