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SupportQuestion2014x10x16x204502

Question Motion works perfect on Ubuntu 14.04 but I messed up something and want therefore to remove motion completely and start the installation again from scrat...

NEW - 16 Oct 2014 - 21:10 by GerhardW

FeatureRequest2014x10x13x223327

Feature Request: Description I am looking to see if it would be possible for the motion script to inject event specific text on the video or pictures. Would lik...

NEW - 13 Oct 2014 - 23:31 by DennisClauss

BugReport2013x03x07x071831

BUG: Motion 3.2.12 is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are Buffer Overflows, Cross Site Scripting and Cross Site Request Forgery. Buffer ...

r2 - 10 Oct 2014 - 19:19 by MrDave

BugReport2014x09x21x172800

BUG: I was testing motion and then it said * Error in `motion': free(): invalid size: 0x00007f960000dc60 * Please help Thanks tony@Marvis 4:~$ sudo motion 0 P...

r2 - 10 Oct 2014 - 19:00 by MrDave

FeatureRequest2014x10x09x000231

Feature Request: Description Is it possible to make this work under OpenWRT? Main.TaraTorko 09 Oct 2014 Follow up Comments

NEW - 09 Oct 2014 - 00:03 by TaraTorko

SupportQuestion2014x10x03x000559

Question I am building a Nerf Sentry Gun to shoot my co workers:) I am using a Raspberry PI (RPi) for my controller and need a way to create a targeting system. I...

NEW - 03 Oct 2014 - 01:01 by ChrisHinshaw

SupportQuestion2014x09x30x174950

Question Hi..I am newbie in motion. I want to make my own web based security camera application with motion. I want to make an application that can live streaming...

NEW - 30 Sep 2014 - 18:28 by NandaSamudera

SupportQuestion2014x08x19x145310

Question This is an enhancement request. Please make it so that target_dir will accept date conversion specifiers, such as %Y, %m, and %d, so that I can store mo...

r2 - 30 Sep 2014 - 15:32 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x08x25x113449

Question Hi. I'm using debian 7.6.0 Motion create new files in specific folder with owner root and group "motion", but groups permisions are only access. I can ch...

r2 - 30 Sep 2014 - 15:11 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x07x12x080830

Question I have installed motion Version trunkREV561 on Xubuntu 14.04. Tested configuration with one (and two) IP camera(s) using snapshot jpg's. Motion seems to ...

r4 - 28 Sep 2014 - 14:07 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x05x09x205511

Question Hello I wanted to send jpg pictures taken by Motion to my ftp server: on_picture_save wput B ftp://userID:password@ftp.site.com %f This does not work (n...

r2 - 28 Sep 2014 - 14:06 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x07x29x072815

Question The "Motion Download Files" section mentions motion (and ffmpeg) as yum installable packages from rpmfusion. I've enabled epel and rpmfusion, and inst...

r3 - 28 Sep 2014 - 13:56 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x09x28x104512

Question Is it possible to change configuration for example brightness, frame rate, ext via php application? Is it any good tutorials about this? I want to make a...

r2 - 28 Sep 2014 - 13:54 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x09x27x001428

Question Motion appears to work very well once it connects to a camera but it seems to frequently lose a camera although not the same camera (I have several diffe...

r2 - 27 Sep 2014 - 17:32 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2010x06x03x064959

Question My IP cameras TP Link (TP SC3130G) No picture, only the gray square time stamp and the inscription "Unable to open video device". The second camera (US...

r2 - 26 Sep 2014 - 19:13 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2010x05x01x203913

Question Hi, if i install motion with apt get (3.2.11.1) i have a great quality of image, but i don't have a stream login. And if i install motion with svn, i hav...

r3 - 26 Sep 2014 - 19:06 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2009x07x23x185828

Question Is it possible to see multiple cameras on one image and create a loopback video deivce with 4 cameras, for example, for viewing them with fbtv? Environm...

r3 - 26 Sep 2014 - 19:05 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2008x11x28x094523

Question I have recently purchased two single channel video servers http://www.acti.com/CatalogV5/Product_Information.asp?PART_NO=ACD 2100 to provide remote analo...

r2 - 26 Sep 2014 - 19:03 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2009x09x28x202103

Question Ask your question. If you want to paste error output text or similar text where new lines must be preserved, paste it in the field below. Error capturing...

r3 - 26 Sep 2014 - 19:01 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x05x11x125210

Question Hi, i use Motion a few years with a couple of camera's. I run it on my Raspberry Pi. Now i bought a new camera (Vanxse V B810 / Onvif) i cannot connect t...

r2 - 26 Sep 2014 - 18:59 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x04x21x165916

Question Hello ! Is it possible do disable the movement detection but keep the other features like the streaming ? I'm using Motion on a Raspberry Pi PiCamera a...

r4 - 26 Sep 2014 - 18:56 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x07x18x190312

Question Is there a limit on the number of IP cameras that can be monitored with Motion 3.2.12 (e.g. Foscam FI890W)? When I get above 5 cameras there are some ...

r2 - 26 Sep 2014 - 18:47 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x06x05x083851

Question Hi. ubuntu 14.04 x64 motion 3.2.12 4 Trendnet TV IP651W error libjpeg decompression failure on first frame giving up! help ) motion.conf daemon off s...

r2 - 26 Sep 2014 - 18:46 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x07x12x181448

Question Hi, How can i save my image as bmp extension # V4L2 _PIX_FMT_SN9C10X : 0 'S910' # V4L2 _PIX_FMT_SBGGR8 : 1 'BA81' # V4L2 _PIX_FMT_MJPEG : 2 'MJPEG'...

r2 - 26 Sep 2014 - 18:25 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x07x23x222301

Question Can motion support RSTP? I have an IP camera, and it appears I may need to use RSTP for access. Paste in your error messages, config settings, terminal ...

r2 - 26 Sep 2014 - 18:16 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x07x26x122429

Question Hi i want to set up a home surveillance system, with a raspberry pie for each camera in the house. if i run motion on each one of them and assign them al...

r2 - 26 Sep 2014 - 18:15 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x09x03x222705

Question Is it possible to update the same(!) image file by snapshot somehow? i.e. /home/user/Images/test1.jpg Something like: avconv i rtsp://admin:12345@192.16...

r2 - 26 Sep 2014 - 18:07 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x09x14x141506

Question I've gone through a number of set up help sites, and no matter what I do, I can't get Motion to save any type of movie file. I'm trying to save to avi, b...

r2 - 26 Sep 2014 - 18:03 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x09x15x182600

Question I'm using motion to do a snapshot every 24 hours. Everything works great. But, the snapshot occurs at 1900 hours every day, and I would like to change it...

r2 - 26 Sep 2014 - 17:53 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2014x09x17x194341

Question Hi, I'm running suse 13.1 with kernel 3.11.6 4. Compiling motion fails. I allready set a softlink to a missing include, as i found in this forum. Unfortu...

r3 - 26 Sep 2014 - 17:50 by TosiaraT

FeatureRequest2013x10x11x052154

Feature Request: Description One major drawback to Motion is the inability to automatically delete files over a certain age. In my case, I wanted to have it aut...

r4 - 16 Sep 2014 - 19:57 by RamonGomez

FeatureRequest2014x09x06x094404

Feature Request: Description It might become handy to have a setting for the color of the moving object. It would help me to film black crows. Main.Anastasius...

r2 - 13 Sep 2014 - 11:29 by ThomasDr

BugReport2014x09x12x111528

BUG: Hi, i have problem, dont work stream in motion from ip camera sip1601w (http://10.144.40.200). In run motion debug write "netcam_output_message: Invalid SO...

NEW - 12 Sep 2014 - 12:09 by AndrianAndrian

FeatureRequest2014x09x08x153335

Feature Request: Description Hi, I'm trying to use motion with FI8910W camera. It looks like this camera used to be supported in the past (http://www.lavrsen.dk...

r2 - 08 Sep 2014 - 19:15 by PetruMarginean

MotionGuideOneLargeDocument

Motion Guide One Large Document. This version of the Guide is made for inclusion in the Motion download package for off line reading. ********* Hope this help...

r8 - 08 Sep 2014 - 09:21 by RutuPatel

FeatureRequest2010x02x28x164451

Feature Request: Description the current threshold value is represented as a number of pixels that trigger the motion detection. this is a problem if you have m...

r5 - 02 Sep 2014 - 17:10 by AnastasiusNadelholz

FeatureRequest2012x11x30x044433

Feature Request: Description Those of us out there with slow upload speeds would love to have a lighter means of supplying the video feed. H264 is undoubtedly l...

r10 - 01 Sep 2014 - 21:43 by AnastasiusNadelholz

FeatureRequest2014x08x25x114732

Feature Request: Description I couldn #39;t send an email to the mailing list. Couldn #39;t you replace the mailing list with an ask forum on stackexchange like...

NEW - 25 Aug 2014 - 11:49 by AnastasiusNadelholz

FeatureRequest2007x03x12x163538

Feature Request: Description a graphical gui... Main.ThierryC 12 Mar 2007 Follow up Comments See third bullet in MotionMissionStatement Motion is written ...

r4 - 23 Aug 2014 - 17:26 by AnastasiusNadelholz

WebTopicList

r3 - 19 Aug 2014 - 23:31 by KennethLavrsen

WebIndex

r4 - 19 Aug 2014 - 23:29 by KennethLavrsen

FeatureRequest2014x08x18x172057

Feature Request: Description Hello, It would be useful to have a ConversionSpecifier for the area of the center of a motion, it could be passed to a script that...

NEW - 18 Aug 2014 - 17:23 by DaNifty

FeatureRequest2014x08x18x151852

Feature Request: Description Like motion MMAL http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43 t=75240 Specify a secondary image buffer with a scaled up res...

NEW - 18 Aug 2014 - 15:24 by JohnDoeleretour

FeatureRequest2014x07x27x211243

Feature Request: Description I am currently in the search for some cameras that are wireless and IR. The problem is that I have to go to each section and try to...

NEW - 27 Jul 2014 - 21:19 by MikeHoward

SupportQuestion2014x07x18x232230

Question Is there a mechanism to timestamp the file with milliseconds or nanoseconds added to the epoch time? Can motion save a set number of files per motion eve...

NEW - 18 Jul 2014 - 23:24 by JoshuaPeluso

BugReport2014x07x15x033639

BUG: My webcam light remains on and the device becomes unusable when killing motion or the terminal that's running motion. I have to both unplug the device and ...

NEW - 15 Jul 2014 - 03:38 by DanielSohn

SoundDetector

I wanted some program to record sound if some sound detected, i was not able to find one, so i started my own Introduction sound_detector just detect if sound hi...

r6 - 09 Jun 2014 - 17:41 by AlexandrGl

SupportQuestion2014x06x05x233221

Question Hello I am very satisfied with your project. I would like to change the configuration file that motion is recording all the time with a video length of 1...

NEW - 05 Jun 2014 - 23:39 by GoekhanSevo

SupportQuestion2014x05x24x055700

Question I am trying to use the postgresql feature of Motion, and I bumped into an error that says: PGSQL query failed: Success Google searching reveals a posting...

NEW - 24 May 2014 - 05:57 by AlanLai

PortableLiveUsb

Live USB CCTV Daria Introduction Project for beginners Linux users or for those who need the operation of the system without spending time on installation and se...

r4 - 20 May 2014 - 15:05 by SemenovAlexey

MjpegFrameGrabPHP

Mjpeg Frame Grabber PHP scripts Introduction This topic is actually a refactoring of some good inputs from MjpegProxyGrab topic. It is for the moment two script...

r6 - 20 May 2014 - 05:20 by MaciejS

SupportQuestion2014x05x13x130623

Question Can these two options be combined i.e. use smart masking within an area defined by a static mask? Or are they mutually exclusive? Environment Motion ...

NEW - 13 May 2014 - 13:09 by KyuzoUzumaki

FeatureRequest2014x05x13x125842

Feature Request: Description Background to idea: I have a camera pointing outside at an area with trees. When clouds pass over the shadow appears and disappears...

NEW - 13 May 2014 - 13:00 by KyuzoUzumaki

SupportQuestion2014x05x07x174105

Question How can I export the coordinates of the center of the moving object? (the %K and %L) I #39;m using motion in a Raspberry Pi and would like to know how ca...

NEW - 07 May 2014 - 17:43 by HenriqueAndrade

BugReport2014x05x06x164737

BUG: I'm using a motion client (i.e. mpeg4 recorder) together with a motion webcam server (i.e. webcam picture provider) on two different PCs on the same network...

NEW - 06 May 2014 - 17:20 by SimonLemarchand

ResetEventCounter

Allow to reset event counter through web api Description of Patch Instead of restart motion to reset the counter, I made a simple patch that copy the pause funct...

r2 - 06 May 2014 - 16:48 by LuisBackup

BugReport2014x04x30x234839

BUG: I ran valgrind on motion 3.2.12 using my config file (see below) and a foscam IR IP camera. There were several instances of memory leaks reported by valgrin...

NEW - 01 May 2014 - 00:32 by NicoleBruck

BugReport2014x05x01x001656

BUG: I install motion and try to record motion video, but file doesn't play in VLC, I saw only first picture. Option for record video file ffmpeg_output_movies...

NEW - 01 May 2014 - 00:20 by JackYellow44

FeatureRequest2014x04x30x044000

Feature Request: Description Using motion since a few months, at the beginning with a gspca cam and now with a uvc one I feel very happy using it. I made 2 webc...

NEW - 30 Apr 2014 - 05:53 by LuisBackup

FeatureRequest2011x06x09x150336

Feature Request: Description Would be nice to have an opportunity to control Gain, Exposure, Backlight Compensation, White Balance Temperature. When using some ...

r2 - 30 Apr 2014 - 05:16 by LuisBackup

FeatureRequest2013x06x10x183528

Feature Request: Description I #39;d like to have an option to disable auto focus on webcams. In my case, I #39;m using a Microsoft Lifecam Cinema. I read that...

r2 - 30 Apr 2014 - 05:13 by LuisBackup

KennethsCustomKernelWithPWC10andK8000andFC4

Kenneth's Custom Kernel With PWC 10.0.7 and Velleman K8000 on Fedora Core 4 How to install pwc in Fedora core 4 AND get Velleman K8000 working. Velleman requires ...

r3 - 28 Apr 2014 - 06:49 by KennethLavrsen

BugReport2014x04x26x081707

BUG: I've seen many people posting a similar problem. The basic problem I have is that motion fails after a change is detected from a netcam_url. I've read in th...

NEW - 26 Apr 2014 - 09:25 by MartinGogo

ConfigureTweaks

Some autoconf portability improvements Description of Patch While hacking on Motion on OSX and OpenBSD I have had to adjust configure.in to make fewer assumption...

r8 - 24 Apr 2014 - 04:40 by DavidWales

WorkingConfigs

Working motion.conf / threadX.conf sample files in action, in real life... You are kindly encouraged to share here your technical details of Motion used in y...

r14 - 23 Apr 2014 - 11:59 by DavidWales

FeatureRequest2014x04x23x111013

Feature Request: Description There is a config option called #34;locate_motion_mode #34;. When set to #34;on #34;, it draws a box around detected motion. Howe...

NEW - 23 Apr 2014 - 11:58 by DavidWales

SupportQuestion2012x02x03x194234

Question Hi, except the non detected USB Webcam related here below the double line (because I just discovered the Backfire 10.03.1 OpenWRT router firmware does no...

r6 - 23 Apr 2014 - 10:23 by DavidWales

SupportQuestion2007x11x14x142357

Question My problem is that, it fails to create videos because motion not found FFmpeg libraries. I installed FFmpeg with "svn checkout svn: / / svn.mplayerhq.hu ...

r4 - 23 Apr 2014 - 10:14 by DavidWales

SupportQuestion2014x04x18x195757

Question Hi, I have the need to increase the fps saved in the timelapse file. The code of the timelapse in the main loop seems to be: if (cnt shots == 0 time...

NEW - 18 Apr 2014 - 20:10 by VitoAmmirata

SupportQuestion2014x04x16x172912

Question This was resolved...I forgot the c option for the config and the default value was for pal and I am using NTSC This works great and I got it going quick...

NEW - 16 Apr 2014 - 18:59 by GlennTelleed

SupportQuestion2014x04x16x170718

Question I have motion running with 2 webcams. Only one works, other does not provide video. Tried lowering resolution with no luck. Running xubuntu on ARM (odroi...

NEW - 16 Apr 2014 - 17:08 by PanosXatzi

FeatureRequest2014x04x15x214012

Feature Request: Description Please can we have a conversion specifier for the current host name, say #37;h. Motion has Conversion Specifiers for the time ( #3...

NEW - 15 Apr 2014 - 21:45 by FredGorm

SupportQuestion2013x12x20x082454

Question Hi, the movies recorded by motion 3.2.12 are unwatchable. Here is a sample: {removed} Camera: Vivotek IP7361 What can i change to capture clean movies. T...

NEW - 15 Apr 2014 - 20:55 by DirkHilges

BugReport2014x04x09x193834

BUG: I have motion running with 2 webcams. Only one works, other does not provide video. Tried lowering resolution with no luck. Running xubuntu on ARM (odroid)....

NEW - 09 Apr 2014 - 19:43 by PanosXatzi

SupportQuestion2013x03x25x070051

Question Hello. I have been searching for answer but none helped. I've been using motion on my Raspberry pi for a while now, and everything was working OK even on...

r2 - 08 Apr 2014 - 13:26 by DavidPowell

SupportQuestion2014x03x30x154627

Question Does anyone have a good idea to my problem? I want to have 2 cameras watching the same scene and in order to avoid false alarms i want to configure motio...

r2 - 08 Apr 2014 - 10:31 by DazzConway

SupportQuestion2014x03x30x071708

Question I just cannot get Motion to be controlled via the cron/script. I'm trying to change the threshold by entering this line at the command line: sudo /usr/bi...

NEW - 30 Mar 2014 - 07:40 by ReggieNoo

SupportQuestion2014x03x29x023716

Question I have Raspberry Pi I want record my IP Camera using motion in realtime even no motion were detected and split the video ex : Hourly , Daily , Monthly th...

NEW - 29 Mar 2014 - 02:52 by IrvanKro

SupportQuestion2014x03x27x152142

Question Hello! I have a problem with taking snapshots from a webcam with motion. If I take a snapshot with an interval of less than 10s, the snapshot gets taken ...

NEW - 27 Mar 2014 - 15:38 by EnzoBrands

SupportQuestion2014x03x17x135317

Question motion shipped with ubuntu 10.04 is very old. To get working video pipe functionality trying to compile from svn trunk. Got built ffmpeg from git with sh...

r4 - 26 Mar 2014 - 13:06 by KarelH

SupportQuestion2014x03x25x074914

Question Hi all, The motion httpd watch dog times out, and I was wondering if there was a way to get a descriptive error message for diagnosing the problem or a d...

NEW - 25 Mar 2014 - 07:52 by CharlesMoyes

ConfigOptionMinimumGap

* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic This is the minimum gap between the storing pictures while detecting motion. The value zero ...

r7 - 23 Mar 2014 - 18:13 by AndrewKnutsen

FeatureRequest2014x03x22x072549

Feature Request: Description The motion administration page is password protected, but the motion webcam stream is not. It was be great if you can add password...

NEW - 22 Mar 2014 - 07:26 by EricRead

SupportQuestion2014x03x22x041923

Question Hello, I am using motion on a linux POS reader where requires to detect a motion as fast as possible, the current speed varies and sometime a little long...

NEW - 22 Mar 2014 - 04:31 by HunterHu

StaticJpegSupport

Patch to add static JPEG support to the Web Interface Description of Patch This patch adds support for serving static JPEG images via the Web Interface (default ...

r2 - 21 Mar 2014 - 00:21 by AndreasBoehler

SupportQuestion2014x03x11x185332

Question Hi, I have 2 stk1160 based USB capture cards, and I think I'm encountering some sort of race condition somewhere between them and Motion. If I unload and...

NEW - 11 Mar 2014 - 18:58 by PratFall

CygwinPatch

CygwinPatch Description of Patch Greetings all! This is my first contribution to open source software, so please be patient if I screw something up. In response ...

r3 - 08 Mar 2014 - 14:23 by DavidSelwood

SupportQuestion2014x02x26x213359

Question I have setup motion with two types of video capture devices. One type are USB cameras and the second are old phones sitting on their own URL. Both device...

r2 - 28 Feb 2014 - 00:46 by AngelCarpintero

SupportQuestion2013x04x24x113109

Question I am using the Instar 3010 camera (http://www.instar.de/de/in 3010 schwarz_10.html) successfully with motion detection, recording and else. However, whil...

r2 - 24 Feb 2014 - 06:02 by AngelCarpintero

SupportQuestion2014x02x21x145549

Question Hi, I have tried in a lot of and well documented options related to the Motion application, but I haven't find out a setting which allow to bind the acce...

r2 - 24 Feb 2014 - 05:59 by AngelCarpintero

BugReport2014x02x20x092016

BUG: error: ‘VIDEO_PALETTE_YUV420P’ undeclared Welcome to the setup procedure for Motion, the motion detection daemon! If you get error messages during this proce...

NEW - 20 Feb 2014 - 09:29 by DrootnarDrootnar

FeatureRequest2014x02x17x132654

Feature Request: Description Hi, I read around the wiki that you are planning on adding support for V4L2 loopback module (http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view...

NEW - 17 Feb 2014 - 13:29 by TuviaSerber

BugReport2012x09x19x151452

BUG: Hello, I'm using Motion with a DCS 932L wireless netcam. The WiFi connection to this camera is medium to poor, so the transmission is not always perfect. I'...

r3 - 17 Feb 2014 - 06:36 by KeithWillis

SupportQuestion2014x02x14x100633

Question Hello, at first: your Programm is great, after many commercial webcam tests i decide, i use an raspberry pi CSI Cam and motion. This combination work w...

NEW - 14 Feb 2014 - 10:35 by AlexKirchner

FeatureRequest2014x02x04x150019

Feature Request: Image Set instead of Single Image Description "output_normal" is great for attaching to an email rather than trying to email a recorded video. ...

r2 - 13 Feb 2014 - 14:29 by MartHugh

BugReport2014x02x11x144906

BUG: if the netcam url is of the shape http://host:port/path and a proxy is declared it doesn't work. I make a correction in netcam.c line 1831 1833 ptr = mymall...

NEW - 11 Feb 2014 - 15:02 by GillesVautier

SupportQuestion2014x02x11x101430

Question Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I have a question to you, which is whether the network camera of the brand: AXIS 207 Works with motion. I've read on your sit...

NEW - 11 Feb 2014 - 10:16 by B0ssK4ra

SupportQuestion2014x01x16x221918

Question These errors seem particularly nasty. I am wondering if I am missing something obvious or others have reported such problems. ï»¿ï»¿ gcc g O2 D_REENTR...

r2 - 08 Feb 2014 - 15:20 by MikePort

FeatureRequest2009x07x14x150700

Feature Request: Description Enable MOTION to process VLC's MJPG Streams. VLC is a powerfull multiplatform streaming solution. There are many Cams in the market...

r10 - 06 Feb 2014 - 16:07 by HenriqueCholodovskis

SupportQuestion2014x02x04x155739

Question First of all I'd like to thank everyone who's even reading this. I've been working on a video monitoring/recording for my house for a while now, using a ...

NEW - 04 Feb 2014 - 19:27 by GustavoCampos

SupportQuestion2014x02x02x212045

Question How I can get information on screen cd CPU temperature on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian? sudo /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp Environment Motion ver...

NEW - 02 Feb 2014 - 21:31 by AugustoVelasco

SupportQuestion2014x02x02x084320

Question I have a NoIR camera board connected to a Raspberry pi, and am using it to 1) store video files and 2) provide a live feed to the web. It works well duri...

NEW - 02 Feb 2014 - 09:16 by ReggieNoo

SupportQuestion2014x01x29x210901

Question Solved Couldn't get IP Cam L Series working with motion Perhaps this version of motion doesn't work with OpenSuse 13.1 or (more probable) my settings a...

r2 - 01 Feb 2014 - 06:22 by MichaelPlagmann

BugReport2014x01x28x084955

BUG: Sometimes the JPG does not download correctly and is broken, i.e. the bottom half is missing. Motion detects this as motion, whereas it should ignore the fr...

NEW - 28 Jan 2014 - 08:50 by OERNiiB

SupportQuestion2013x02x14x002647

Question Hello I am having trouble applying a mask image to my network camera feeds. I have created for simplicity a simple mask file (all white) in 640x480 (both...

r3 - 25 Jan 2014 - 06:08 by MontyAu

FeatureRequest2014x01x24x174516

Feature Request: Description I am using motion to monitor my office work area. Huge numbers of files are created of me staring at my computer screen. Perhaps it...

r3 - 24 Jan 2014 - 21:39 by StevenSnelgrove

SupportQuestion2014x01x23x064801

Question Apologies if this is answered, but I checked and was unable to find anything in the Answered questions. I know I can use the loopback device (have finall...

NEW - 23 Jan 2014 - 06:55 by AndySen

FeatureRequest2012x05x03x023834

Feature Request: Description Somthing like #37;F gives you Full Path and file name and #37;f gives you just the file name. Somtimes I need both styles in the ...

r2 - 22 Jan 2014 - 17:21 by JeffreyHerr

SupportQuestion2014x01x13x031136

Question Hello i have a fresh fedora 20 i686 install and installed all dependencies requeried, also disabled SELINUX and changing pemissions on folders but when r...

NEW - 13 Jan 2014 - 03:25 by RaulFenossi

SupportQuestion2014x01x11x145624

Question Does the official version of Motion support Raspberry PI yet or do I still need to follow the manual installation by downloading code and moving director...

NEW - 11 Jan 2014 - 15:02 by MattMoore

SupportQuestion2012x01x28x093058

Question If I run Motion with Logitech cam for the first time it works fine. If I kill Motion, wait 5 sec and start it again it begins to fail in a loop. To m...

r2 - 27 Dec 2013 - 09:43 by TosiaraT

FeatureRequest2009x08x21x001851

Feature Request: Description The current build is not compatible out of the box with Cygwin, inhibiting netcam users from using the cygwin/windows combination ...

r8 - 27 Dec 2013 - 09:16 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2012x02x02x141742

Question Trying to compile Motion for BeagleBone (Angstrom Linux distro, arm7 arch). Make fails with: /tmp/cctcaFkD.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/cctcaFkD.s:1965: E...

r3 - 27 Dec 2013 - 09:13 by TosiaraT

SupportQuestion2013x12x26x165019

Question Can you please update Motion so that its webcam server (the one operating on default port 8081) outputs an MJPEG stream embedded in an html page, instead...

NEW - 26 Dec 2013 - 17:05 by DavidRadin

SupportQuestion2013x12x15x050235

Question Hello, I was adjusting my saturation, contrast and hue values in the web base config editor and after I reset the values to 0 to disable my changes, the ...

NEW - 15 Dec 2013 - 05:19 by StevenD

SupportQuestion2013x12x08x100633

Question The decision to remove command line options starting with motion 3.2.1 as described in http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/CommandLineOptions ...

NEW - 08 Dec 2013 - 10:19 by AravindI

CCTVChromeExtension

CCTV View Introduction CCTV View is a Google Chrome extension that adds a button on the toolbar. Clicking this button displays up to 20 cctv streams (or still im...

r4 - 04 Dec 2013 - 08:05 by TacoScheltema

MplayerMjpegStreamViewing

Viewing an mjpeg stream with mplayer Introduction Firefox and Co uses much CPU Power on my X Windows. I search for an other client and found a solution with mpla...

r6 - 03 Dec 2013 - 00:10 by KelsieFlynn

SupportQuestion2013x11x26x022954

Question how do i can delete file.avi and file.jpeg after a week record file? error message root@server:/etc/motion# motion 0 Processing thread 0 config file...

r2 - 28 Nov 2013 - 01:50 by AmriAm

MotionGuide3x1x20

Legacy Motion Guide for Motion versions 3.1.18 3.1.20 This is the version of the Motion Guide that matches releases from 3.1.18 till 3.1.20 of Motion. It is a s...

r3 - 26 Nov 2013 - 00:59 by AmriAm

SupportQuestion2013x11x24x104643

Question Ho 2 Cam IP Wanscam, una interna JW0008 che funziona perfettamente con qualsiasi versione di MOTION, qualsiasi kernel, e qualsiasi versione provata di OS...

r2 - 24 Nov 2013 - 15:29 by DanieleModica

SupportQuestion2013x11x06x094041

Question When will H264 be supported as an option in the config file? Is there any patch that include this support in Motion? Environment Motion version: 3....

NEW - 06 Nov 2013 - 09:45 by AndreiAlexsson

SupportQuestion2013x11x05x144119

Question After installing motion trunk I noticed that images were no longer being saved as before. That is, previously if I set post_capure to 25 and the gap to s...

r2 - 05 Nov 2013 - 18:35 by AndrewK

SupportQuestion2013x11x05x161126

Question Is it possible to save only movies that are longer than x (e.g. 2) seconds? I #39;d like to configure this, to not save short motion movies, which are m...

NEW - 05 Nov 2013 - 16:14 by ThomasKuczek

FeatureRequest2013x11x01x233457

Feature Request: Description Daily timelaps video should be created out of motion detected videos only. Main.ThomasKuczek 01 Nov 2013 Follow up Comments

NEW - 01 Nov 2013 - 23:39 by ThomasKuczek

SupportQuestion2013x10x30x180816

Question I am able to successfully run Motion with a Phillips webcam and detect motion, capturing a series of event related JPEGs. However, when I set up Motion ...

r2 - 31 Oct 2013 - 02:48 by WillStewart

SupportQuestion2013x09x01x104741

Question Hi, I have a huge problem with motion. First of all, it worked great for over months 24/7 with my Raspberry Pi Rev.B. But all of a sudden, it didn't show...

r3 - 29 Oct 2013 - 17:24 by DavidRadin

FeatureRequest2005x05x02x170207

Feature Request: Description Kenneth, I have found some situations where MJPEG streaming is not practical or just cannot be implemented. The output_all and snap...

r6 - 25 Oct 2013 - 11:10 by JohnBadger

FeatureRequest2013x10x24x011125

Feature Request: Description Hello i would really like to be able to use this app in windows please. Would it be possible to release a windows compatible versio...

NEW - 24 Oct 2013 - 01:12 by JustinCram

SupportQuestion2013x10x12x230759

Question I have 5 cameras but have tried 1,2,3,4,5 in various combinations. I always lose 2 webcam streams, last is black and 2 are duplicated. e.g. with 5 camera...

r4 - 15 Oct 2013 - 14:25 by JohnBadger

SupportQuestion2013x10x10x100446

Question I've set up motion and MJPEG ProxyGrab yesterday, where I think it worked, but today it won't refresh (the direct Live webcam through motion works perfec...

NEW - 10 Oct 2013 - 10:14 by DavidKjoeller

BugReport2013x10x08x131833

BUG: I use motion 3.2.12 on raspberry pi with one high resolution IP camera. To stop motion detection I use the trigger port to send "pause" command to motion. ...

NEW - 08 Oct 2013 - 13:45 by MaartenOll

BugReport2013x09x28x182300

BUG: I am experimenting with settings to see the effect. I had minimum_motion_frame set as 2, and output was as expected, both movie and image files. Then I chan...

NEW - 28 Sep 2013 - 18:24 by WilliamPhelps

SupportQuestion2013x09x21x194240

Question The image is not clear. What settings to check? OS xubuntu 13.04. Capture board : conexant fusion 878A. http://savepic.su/3334076.jpg http://savepic.su/3...

NEW - 21 Sep 2013 - 19:47 by KirsSysh

SupportQuestion2013x09x21x175156

Question Hi, I installed Motion 3.2.12 on Raspbian and looks like it's running. I can view the control page //localhost:8080 ok. But I cannot see any image when a...

NEW - 21 Sep 2013 - 18:08 by JasonYang

SupportQuestion2013x09x19x113843

Question Hello. I have motion setup to take normal pictures, send me an email and upload the video to a personal ftp online storage. I would like now (in addition...

NEW - 19 Sep 2013 - 11:48 by ChristopheC

SupportQuestion2013x09x14x105537

Question Hello, I bought a camera D Link 932L. I have configured motion and I can access my camera images with motion. I have configured motion and it serves imag...

NEW - 14 Sep 2013 - 11:02 by AlbertBufias

SupportQuestion2013x08x29x183514

Question I'm having issues where the event counter is being reset. I can't figure out what determines when the counter is reset ideally (for my uses) it would i...

NEW - 29 Aug 2013 - 18:38 by KeeganMorrison

SupportQuestion2013x08x28x052307

Question Hello Prompt, you can display the value taken from the sensor program Digitemp? You can reload the configuration file thread1.conf without stopping the m...

NEW - 28 Aug 2013 - 05:54 by AkulovMikhail

MotionJavaScriptViewer

Introduction This is a simple JavaScript viewer for motion files. Uses single PHP file on server to generate list of files and single file for viewing. The client...

NEW - 27 Aug 2013 - 12:35 by RobertKlauco

FeatureRequest2013x08x19x134513

Feature Request: Description hi, thanks for such a great work. well one of my tune up was moving saved video directory into /www and i #39;ve made a simple gall...

r2 - 27 Aug 2013 - 11:47 by AtumRA

SupportQuestion2013x08x25x041921

Question A useful feature would be to add a "webcam_authentication" feature to motion.conf which would require a username and password to access the webcam just a...

NEW - 25 Aug 2013 - 04:24 by JoeMotionMan

FI8905W

Main.VadimMolkov 23 Aug 2013

NEW - 23 Aug 2013 - 04:47 by VadimMolkov

SupportQuestion2013x08x19x145945

Question I configured motion and it works but there are too many false alarms, about 3 per hour. Each false alarm consists of 1 to 3 jpg images and the video is ...

NEW - 19 Aug 2013 - 15:04 by LawrenceChiu

SupportQuestion2013x08x16x152709

Question I'm doing a live streaming with motion and IP cameras and everything works fine, the problem is that when I cover the camera with a jacket obviously the ...

r2 - 16 Aug 2013 - 17:46 by LuisMunster

SupportQuestion2013x08x16x150120

Question is there any one monitoring this site Paste in your error messages, config settings, terminal window output etc in this text field. Environment Motio...

NEW - 16 Aug 2013 - 15:03 by LynnPaskett

SupportQuestion2013x08x15x033504

Question on_event_end = /usr/bin/dropbox #!/bin/bash #save files to dropbox /home/pi/Dropbox Uploader/dropbox_uploader.sh delete /$(date m_%d) /home/pi/Dropbox U...

NEW - 15 Aug 2013 - 03:50 by LynnPaskett

SupportQuestion2013x08x12x214900

Question Using FreeBSD 8.4 Motion. 5 cameras. Also using PHP proxy with readfile() function to hide Motion stream at localhost. During some hours Motion crashes...

NEW - 12 Aug 2013 - 22:00 by KesanoKX

BugReport2013x08x11x161945

BUG: The mpeg4 setting for ffmpeg_video_codec doesn't work correctly with the HTML5 video tag, the needed settings are different. It would make a lot more sens...

NEW - 11 Aug 2013 - 16:29 by PedroCorteReal

BugReport2013x08x02x222612

BUG: Hello I config the motion for two webcans, but this didn't work good for me. Any suggestions? Thanks. 0 Processing thread 0 config file /etc/motion/moti...

NEW - 02 Aug 2013 - 22:32 by LuanCasagrande

SupportQuestion2013x07x31x201024

Question Hello, I'm attempting to host a Panasonic WV SF346 on my Raspberry Pi using motion and then connect to that with the Panasonic KX NT400 (An telephone tha...

NEW - 31 Jul 2013 - 20:18 by JustinPoiroux

SupportQuestion2013x07x31x162918

Question How can I dynamicly change text_left? This could solve my temp/humidity problem I reported earlier today. If I can change that parameter on the fly then ...

NEW - 31 Jul 2013 - 16:32 by StanBruyn

SupportQuestion2013x07x31x144800

Question I would like to overlay a text (temperature and humidity) on the webcamserver images. Can you give me some directions on how I can implement that in the ...

NEW - 31 Jul 2013 - 14:58 by StanBruyn

SupportQuestion2013x03x01x015124

Question I purchased the FI8918W because of the good ratings that I was reading about and I checked the Motion Wiki to see if was a device that someone had alread...

r3 - 28 Jul 2013 - 05:58 by PhilipTait

BugReport2013x07x21x175650

BUG: Everything works fine when I call "motion". However, no motion is recorded when I call "/etc/init.d/motion start" For debugging I started motion as service:...

NEW - 21 Jul 2013 - 17:59 by JohnMiller

SupportQuestion2013x07x16x192753

Question Ask your question. If you want to paste error output text or similar text where new lines must be preserved, paste it in the field below.I like follow rt...

NEW - 16 Jul 2013 - 20:05 by BeeMan

SupportQuestion2013x07x12x082230

Question In my Kmotion server I have 2 USB camera's. On startup I can see some color setting changing but the brighness is not adjusted. In /etc/motion/motion.con...

NEW - 12 Jul 2013 - 08:58 by RobbertBen

SupportQuestion2013x07x12x064420

Question I last built motion on Sat Aug 18 22:11:02 2012 against ffmpeg 0.10.3. It has been working fine ever since. Recently however I had to rebuild the thing...

NEW - 12 Jul 2013 - 07:03 by StefanBruda

SupportQuestion2013x07x09x224859

Question Hi!! I need to make my netcamera up and running with Motion, the problem is my camera can only handle RTSP protocol, i've tried to develop a patch with L...

NEW - 09 Jul 2013 - 22:58 by GerardoCaudillo

SupportQuestion2013x07x07x185426

NEW - 07 Jul 2013 - 19:12 by UweWeng

FeatureRequest2013x07x07x062510

Feature Request: Description It would be nice to be able to set a min_mpeg_time config option, where I can set the minimum amount of time to record after motion...

NEW - 07 Jul 2013 - 06:29 by KevinEvans

SupportQuestion2013x07x04x143337

Question I'm trying to run a script that will execute a bash script when motion is detected. This is the default code: #Command to be executed when a motion frame...

NEW - 04 Jul 2013 - 14:52 by TyY

BugReport2013x06x27x200451

BUG: I configured motion to rollover a timelapse file on a daily base. The resolution is 800x600. I tried to capture a survillance video of my cats while away. ;...

NEW - 27 Jun 2013 - 20:20 by KlausMueller

ProximityDetection

(Start or Pause detection based on if your cell phone is on the local network or not.) Introduction This simple script checks if an IP is on the network. if IP i...

NEW - 23 Jun 2013 - 03:44 by DavidJeffery

Zavio

Zavio F3206 I have not been able to get all the features working on this camera; however, I did get my Thecus N4200Pro? NAS to download the 1080P MJPEGs usingthe ...

r2 - 15 Jun 2013 - 23:23 by LarryKingery

BugReport2013x06x10x183823

BUG: Hello, Using certain webcams (Logitech C310, Logitech C110), I get this error if I run Motion after a reboot. However, the weird thing is this error doesn't...

NEW - 10 Jun 2013 - 18:45 by EricRead

FeatureRequest2013x05x20x010436

Feature Request: Description I #39;m using motion as a security camera. I plugged a hard drive, then forgot about it until the disk filled up. I wrote a (too) s...

r2 - 10 Jun 2013 - 18:32 by EricRead

FeatureRequest2009x10x06x173532

Feature Request: Description I love motion! Great program. My request is small and should be easy to code. I have it running remotely and sometimes like to look...

r3 - 10 Jun 2013 - 18:10 by EricRead

SupportQuestion2013x06x07x181416

Question I am running motion 3.2.12 on a Raspberry Pi with a script file called by a motion.config file path parameter (see verbatim text). Motion works as expec...

NEW - 07 Jun 2013 - 18:37 by GlennT

BugReport2013x06x05x033036

BUG: Hi to all. It is seems autofocus webcams are bad to use with motion. I use webcam with autofocus and install it to spy stable object (my computer table). Re...

NEW - 05 Jun 2013 - 03:33 by MustaiMustai

FeatureRequest2011x06x21x114336

Feature Request: Description Hi, when I started using motion's built in web server for streaming (via the excellent nph mjprox CGI program from MJPEG ProxyGrab)...

r3 - 21 May 2013 - 09:47 by ZhuoLiu

SupportQuestion2013x05x20x161557

Question How can i hide peoples area in the motion program or config.file? I have create a Image called snapmask.pgm in black white binary format with black Areas...

NEW - 20 May 2013 - 16:28 by UweHeidrich

FeatureRequest2013x05x20x151754

Feature Request: Description I #39;d like this option to record motion event jpeg information to the sql database but not save the jpegs to disk. Currently I #3...

NEW - 20 May 2013 - 15:19 by BruceBodnyk

FeatureRequest2013x05x19x181953

Feature Request: Description Missing the opportunity to put own custom text in the upper left and/or right corner Main.EirikSkorstad 19 May 2013 Follow up ...

NEW - 19 May 2013 - 18:31 by EirikSkorstad

TopicTitle

Trying to repair previously working system after removing header files. "Unable to open video device since..."

r2 - 19 May 2013 - 14:49 by MrMason

SupportQuestion2013x05x09x053856

Question I found the setting to add the x y coordinates of the center of a moving object to the text stamp on images. I would like to export those coordinates to ...

NEW - 09 May 2013 - 05:51 by JasonRStockton

SupportQuestion2013x05x08x134024

Question Is there a way to get the information at what position or in what rectangle the motion occured? Paste in your error messages, config settings, terminal w...

NEW - 08 May 2013 - 13:41 by MatthiasHeise

BugReport2013x05x07x103525

BUG: This might be a duplicate, but there are lots of us using motion with mjpg streamer. I believe I represent the large contingent of users who are not progr...

NEW - 07 May 2013 - 11:03 by TomHinkle

DebianUbuntu

Debian / Ubuntu problems Introduction Debian , Ubuntu and others debian based distributions have a really old motion package , so many users have tons of problem...

r6 - 02 May 2013 - 23:52 by DazzConway

SupportQuestion2013x04x28x135157

Question I have notice that the video recording start 1 min after motion has detected. I wanted it to start recording right after motion has detected. I couldn't ...

NEW - 28 Apr 2013 - 14:04 by YimengNiu

SupportQuestion2013x04x20x215509

Question I've set up my movie_filename (and jpeg_filename, etc.) to use this format (see movie_filename, below). However, when I look at my directory it is genera...

NEW - 20 Apr 2013 - 22:22 by RichardBlundell

MakeMaskPatch

Makemask external program for mask making Description of Patch I wrote this program to take multiple images, looks for areas of change, then create a mask file t...

r4 - 11 Apr 2013 - 14:07 by JonZeeff

BugReport2013x03x31x063416

BUG: I want to use on_event_start future of Motion. But it can't run X applications when run in daemon mode!!! I want to use my monitor to show the webcam stream...

NEW - 31 Mar 2013 - 06:51 by YusufGungor

MotionCookiePatch

Motion Cookie Patch Description of Patch Patch to add the cookies to the stream request from a IP cam. Allows to use stupid Chinese IP cameras with authenticatio...

r3 - 27 Mar 2013 - 09:45 by RomanGaufman

SupportQuestion2013x03x20x193058

Question Hi, If I am viewin timelapse movies from this 1280 * 720 IP camera with Avidemux they moslty give an error: "Could not open the file". Error is: Mpeg f...

NEW - 20 Mar 2013 - 20:05 by BenZandstra

BugReport2013x03x20x143659

BUG: Running motion installed via apt get causes following errors. 0 Processing thread 0 config file /home/deal/motion.conf 0 Motion 3.2.12 Started 0 ffm...

NEW - 20 Mar 2013 - 14:38 by PawelGrzes

SupportQuestion2013x03x15x053134

Question Hi, everything in working perfectly.. I'm using motion for a meteo station, to check the clouds! I'm using the snapshot and the time lapse features, both...

NEW - 15 Mar 2013 - 05:33 by RodoDendron

BugReport2012x07x20x062402

BUG: Compilation fails at the make stage, complaining that the storage sizes of vid_pic and vid_win are not known. This happens even following a clean download o...

r2 - 12 Mar 2013 - 16:12 by RkaneKnight

PyPyMotion

pypymotion It allows Motion to send emails with a preview of the pictures and a link to the corresponding video. It can also disable itself when you're home if y...

NEW - 11 Mar 2013 - 04:34 by GiuseppeValente

SupportQuestion2013x03x11x021346

Question I've got a hard problem, sometimes, my cameras do a reset (I don't know why), and when they do this they start a patrol movement, so Motion see a lot of ...

NEW - 11 Mar 2013 - 02:17 by LuisOrtega

FeatureRequest2013x03x10x115826

Feature Request: Description I #39;m trying to use motion to create videos to display on the web and wanted to create MP4 and VP8 files. Those are not options i...

NEW - 10 Mar 2013 - 12:02 by PedroCorteReal

SupportQuestion2009x01x20x183230

Question Is the P207 palette unsupported? motion n 3.2.11 segfaults after being unable to connect to the device. The kernel is gentoo 2.6.28 0 Processing threa...

r7 - 03 Mar 2013 - 23:56 by ChrisBlack

SupportQuestion2013x02x26x154851

Question Hi, I'm using Motion with a Logitech Quickcam Sphere MP on a Raspberry Pi. They work perfectly most of the time, but after every few days it would silent...

r2 - 01 Mar 2013 - 07:14 by KennethLavrsen

SupportQuestion2013x02x28x041829

Question I have motion setup and functioning on my raspberry pi except one small issue... I have only changed a few settings in the motion.conf file; daemon on, t...

r2 - 01 Mar 2013 - 07:04 by KennethLavrsen

NetcamMjpegStreamDumps

NetcamMjpegStreamDumps Anyone with a Network Camera able to stream in mjpeg format is encouraged to attach a raw binary dump to this topic. To produce such a raw ...

r51 - 20 Feb 2013 - 05:54 by TakumiYew

BugReport2013x02x15x193900

BUG: I'm trying to use motion with an old "The Imaging Source" Astrocam, because it works nicely with very low light. I could not find any compatible palette set...

NEW - 15 Feb 2013 - 19:57 by CavaC

SupportQuestion2013x02x14x143443

Question I've check and rechecked and I cannot seem to get motion to not crash telling me: Error opening file ./01 20130214092059 24.jpg with mode w: Permission d...

NEW - 14 Feb 2013 - 14:36 by JasonKumpf

BugReport2008x06x19x123218

BUG: Genius IPCam secure 300R. I connect it using url http://webcam/cgi bin/getimage I see a green screen in motion web server. When I do "wget http://webcam/cgi...

r19 - 12 Feb 2013 - 17:30 by ArnoTixe

KennethsNerdoMeter

Kenneth's Nerdometer A tool to measure the nerd factor. 0 is the ideal. No trace of nerdiness. And 10 is an absolute disaster. This Nerdometer and its nerd factor...

r5 - 10 Feb 2013 - 12:49 by SandJ

FeatureRequest2013x02x10x052944

Feature Request: Description I have a Microsoft LiveCam which reduces it #39;s frame rate from 30fps to 4fps in low light conditions. This greatly increases exp...

NEW - 10 Feb 2013 - 05:36 by RobinMessenger

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