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WebPreferences
Motion Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the Motion web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ., and can be overw...
r70 - 14 Mar 2023 - 14:49 by KennethLavrsen
SoundAudioRecording
Recording sound / audio from Webcam Microphone. Introduction This might be simple to some people, and better ways probably exists, but to get started for beginne...
r8 - 14 Mar 2023 - 14:43 by WikiGuest
WebHome
Welcome to the former home of Motion, a software motion detector. NOTE. I have handed over the project to a new team of developers. New project owner is Mr Dave...
r135 - 20 Jan 2019 - 19:59 by KennethLavrsen
MotionGuideAlphabeticalOptionReferenceManual
Motion Guide Alphabetical Option Reference Manual Note that this Motion Guide is no longer maintained on this site. Motion is now maintained by Mr. Dave and loc...
r2 - 05 Jan 2019 - 22:07 by KennethLavrsen
MotionGuide
Motion Guide Version 4.0.1 and newer Note that this Motion Guide is no longer maintained on this site. Motion is now maintained by Mr. Dave and located on Github...
r50 - 05 Jan 2019 - 22:06 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionViewTemplate
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Group: #TopicEnd
r3 - 05 Jan 2019 - 21:52 by KennethLavrsen
WebInterfaceForMotionDiscussion
Web Interface For Motion Discussion. The Initial Vision by Main.KennethLavrsen It is amazing today how Motion rich with features as it is is still able to ...
r29 - 01 Aug 2018 - 05:25 by KennethLavrsen
WebcamCompressInMemory
WebcamCompressInMemory Introduction Every time someone is using a browser to see a webcam motion writes to disk each frame captured from a device (v4l or network...
r10 - 12 Dec 2017 - 09:17 by NickiAllen
MotionMail
Motionmail Creates a montage of event images and sends it by email. Introduction Perl script which will send a montage of event images to a list of email address...
r8 - 12 Dec 2017 - 09:16 by NickiAllen
AreaDetect
Area Detect Feature Description of Patch This patch adds the ability to detect motion in predefined areas and execute an event immediately upon detection. The ev...
r11 - 09 Oct 2017 - 19:02 by RaC
TrendNet
Manufacturer of OEMed network device and IP camera hardware. http://www.trendnet.com/ Trendnet TV IP100 http://www.trendnet.com/products/TV IP100.htm Wired Ether...
r13 - 13 Sep 2017 - 20:58 by SteveMatscherz
IPv6
IPv6 Support Description of Patch This patch adds support for IPv6 to Motion. The 'local' options, which before bound on localhost, now will bind on the appropri...
r13 - 31 Aug 2017 - 05:32 by AlfinSyuqra
MotionStreamAuthPatch
Motion Stream Authentication Patch Description of Patch This patch add authentication support to the "Live Stream Server" function. It contains two authenticatio...
r25 - 31 Aug 2017 - 03:29 by AlfinSyuqra
FI8910W
Main.JackAllen 26 Aug 2017
NEW - 26 Aug 2017 - 18:06 by JackAllen
FeatureRequest2016x03x24x105354
Feature Request: Description Hi guys, I have problems with motion and I need the help. As the IP camera I have ASUS rt n16 router. I have established open sourc...
r2 - 09 Aug 2017 - 00:23 by AndikaJuniar
WebLeftBar
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r22 - 27 Jun 2017 - 16:42 by KennethLavrsen
SupportQuestion2017x06x22x202557
Question Does anybody know how to make motion only take a picture of a motion that is detected in the specified area_detect zone? Thank you for the help. Roman Pa...
NEW - 22 Jun 2017 - 20:45 by RomanR
SupportQuestion2017x05x21x225901
Question We are looking to get images from our camera through RTSP. In our config file, we entered the rtsp address: rtsp://admin:123456@192.168.137.110/live/ch0 ...
NEW - 21 May 2017 - 23:14 by JohnLaboe
MR1803E
Main.BartoszMarek 20 May 2017 cap.driver: "uvcvideo"cap.card: "USB2.0 PC CAMERA"cap.bus_info: "usb 0000:00:14.0 1"cap.capabilities=0x84200001 1:ml1 NTC VID ...
NEW - 20 May 2017 - 17:26 by BartoszMarek
WorkingDevices
Working Devices If you add an entry for a Network camera, please provide the URL that is required for motion to access the camera images. If the camera supports b...
r203 - 20 May 2017 - 17:22 by BartoszMarek
MotionLog
Motion Logging Description Motion uses syslog for logging messages, but also stderr when it runs in no deamon mode. Only running motion in no damon mode allows t...
r17 - 08 May 2017 - 02:05 by ArifUsr
SupportQuestion2017x03x30x200844
Question Hi there. I am trying to record audio at the same time as video, based on when motion is detected. I have tried using arecord, as listed elsewhere in thi...
NEW - 30 Mar 2017 - 20:32 by JoPitts
SupportQuestion2017x03x23x131350
Question Hello ! I am trying to use a motion with a ComOnyx CO L221 camera. On official site in support is written: The correct spelling of the request for JPEG f...
NEW - 23 Mar 2017 - 13:36 by RamilMukhtarov
SupportQuestion2017x03x21x080028
Question motion.conf on thread1.conf: videodevice /dev/video0 text_left CAMERA 1 target_dir /home/pi/webcam/camera1 stream_port 9061 stream_auth_method 1 stream_...
NEW - 21 Mar 2017 - 08:17 by SuburSubekti
SupportQuestion2017x03x17x072122
Question Hi. I have been trying to get a single JPEG image from running motion, but I only get MJPEG. Is there a HTTP call with what I could ask just for a snapsh...
NEW - 17 Mar 2017 - 07:24 by JermyHollew32332
FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Frequently Asked Questions about Motion How do I get Motion to work with two or more camera at a time? If I run with one camera Motion works but when I add one m...
r85 - 22 Feb 2017 - 14:49 by RodolfoLeibner
SupportQuestion2017x02x20x160943
Question Hello, I plugged in a webcam (sudo lsusb) "Logitech, Inc. Quickcam E2500 series" on my Rapsberry PI3. It works correctly with motion v3.2.12, but the web...
NEW - 20 Feb 2017 - 16:22 by NicoMesa
MotionDailyVideo
Main.RodolfoLeibner 18 Feb 2017 As a Motion software user, I prefer to get a big movie per day rather than a lot of small ones. Although it is always possible to...
r4 - 19 Feb 2017 - 23:29 by RodolfoLeibner
SupportQuestion2017x01x27x203854
Question Hi, my ipcam strams the video with rtsp. VLC is playing the stream without problems when i enter the url: rtsp://192.168.1.43:554/11 in motion.conf i ent...
NEW - 27 Jan 2017 - 21:08 by HennerK
SupportQuestion2017x01x25x185146
Question Hi, First thanks for your app, it's very performant and customizable! My problem is that the video produced after a motion detection is not "correct". I ...
NEW - 25 Jan 2017 - 19:07 by FloD
SupportQuestion2017x01x24x210839
Question Hello everybody, thanks in advance for your help. Please be patient with me i am not good at linux and not experienced with raspi either :( here is my qu...
NEW - 24 Jan 2017 - 21:38 by ThaninSchultheis
FI8918W
Main.MarioAlbuja2 19 Jan 2017 Tested with: netcam_url http://xx.xx.xx.xx/snapshot.cgi (for single JPEG images) netcam_url http://xx.xx.xx.xx/videostream.cgi (f...
NEW - 19 Jan 2017 - 22:00 by MarioAlbuja2
SupportQuestion2017x01x10x085248
Question I have been running a remote webcam for a number of years. I have been having problems with Logitech cameras locking up to give a gray screen. I have b...
NEW - 10 Jan 2017 - 08:58 by DazzConway
SupportQuestion2017x01x02x173706
Question i am trying to find the http access logs for the motion webserver. where can they be found? Environment Motion version: 3.2.12 ffmpeg versio...
NEW - 02 Jan 2017 - 17:42 by RobertPellegrini
r3 - 05 Dec 2016 - 13:47 by PeterGeher
SupportQuestion2016x11x15x081032
Question hi, is possible to manage multiple ipcam? is like the solution for usb? (motion.conf motion2.conf). Thanks Environment Motion version: 4 ff...
NEW - 15 Nov 2016 - 08:34 by RaffaeleDebbi
SupportQuestion2016x11x14x195716
Question I don't have ffmpeg installed on my raspbian OS, because it does not seem to be used in debian anymore. The fork 'libav tools' is available though. I wou...
NEW - 14 Nov 2016 - 20:30 by RicardoBirwe
ConfigFileOptions
Config File Options Version 4.0.1: The configuration options that are applicable to 4.0.1 can be viewed on line alphabetically or by topic. This file is also i...
r39 - 13 Nov 2016 - 04:57 by MrDave
DownloadFiles
Downloads Motion is published under the GNU Public License version 2 or later. Current version is 4.0.1 * Release Files (Debs and Source) releases Old...
r85 - 13 Nov 2016 - 04:20 by MrDave
FeatureRequests
Feature Requests from Users This page illustrates some of the historic feature requests for the Motion application. Any new feature requests should be discussed v...
r35 - 13 Nov 2016 - 04:03 by MrDave
BugReports
Bug Reports The page includes historic bug reports. It is not to be used for reporting any new bugs. New issues should be reported via the github home or reported...
r27 - 13 Nov 2016 - 04:00 by MrDave
SupportRequests
Motion Support The Motion Wiki Support pages are here for you if you have a technical question or any question about the use of Motion. Motion is free software an...
r15 - 13 Nov 2016 - 03:54 by MrDave
SupportQuestion2016x11x11x050932
Question I wanna save pictures just around locate positions. Environment Motion version: 3.2.12 ffmpeg version: Libraries: ffmpeg, mysql, pos...
NEW - 11 Nov 2016 - 05:13 by YushinSuzuki
BlueCherry
Bluecherry /bluecherry.jpg Website http://www.bluecherry.net Curtis Hall has kindly offered 15% to users of Motion (and Zoneminder) on video capture cards. To obt...
r8 - 16 Oct 2016 - 19:22 by QwQw
SupportQuestion2016x10x01x180650
Question I have a problem to run motion with logitech c270. I've got 2 errors in logfile: mjpegtoyuv420p: Corrupt image ... continue and Device doesn't support VI...
NEW - 01 Oct 2016 - 18:22 by GenaBaklofen
MotionNotify
Motion Notify Google Drive Uploader and Email Notifier with Network Detection Motion Notify Version 1.0 Motion Notify 1.0 is a major release which is a signifi...
r31 - 24 Sep 2016 - 18:49 by AndrewDean
BugReport2016x09x11x140809
BUG: I recompiled the latest ffmpeg for raspberry pi 3. (see below info) trying to recompile motion with suggested commands (autoreconf fiv; ./configure; make) ...
NEW - 11 Sep 2016 - 14:57 by MarcoBernardi
MotionGuideGettingItRunning
Motion Guide Getting It Running This topic consists of the following subtopics: RunningMotionConfigFiles, CommandLineOptions, ConfigFileOptions, SignalsKill, Er...
r3 - 09 Sep 2016 - 08:41 by KennethLavrsen
CommandLineOptions
Command Line Options In Motion 3.2.1 and forward most command line options have been removed and replaced them by an option to specify location to motion.conf ...
r10 - 09 Sep 2016 - 08:40 by KennethLavrsen
RunningMotionConfigFiles
Running Motion Important Definitions Motion is invoked from the command line. It has no GUI. Everything is controlled from config files. From version 3.2 the com...
r14 - 09 Sep 2016 - 08:36 by KennethLavrsen
SupportQuestion2016x09x02x163613
Question Was wondering if there is or some one could compile a specific Help file for webcam or ip based video. So many cams are now ip based and use various stre...
NEW - 02 Sep 2016 - 16:54 by DavidHorner
SupportQuestion2016x08x21x151007
Question I installed Motion Motioneye from the terminal with apt get .... How can i update to the latest release of both programs WITHOUT losing my settings? ap...
NEW - 21 Aug 2016 - 15:14 by WolframFischer
BugReport2016x08x20x112444
solved! BUG: I have 4 IP Cams running (thread 1.conf, thread 2.conf ...) and i added 2 lines to each of it: mask_file /home/motion_masken/vorne.pgm smart_mask_sp...
r3 - 21 Aug 2016 - 15:09 by WolframFischer
MotionGuideBasicFeatures
Motion Guide Basic Features NOTE THAT THIS GUIDE IS CURRENTLY BROKEN BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A MAJOR REWRITE FOR MOTION 4.0 This topic consists of the ...
r2 - 14 Aug 2016 - 21:49 by KennethLavrsen
InstallOverview
How do I install Motion? Motion is mainly distributed as source files that you must compile yourself. There is also an RPM made on Fedora Core 3. And Debian packa...
r11 - 14 Aug 2016 - 21:42 by KennethLavrsen
PrepareInstall
Preparation For Install Note: If you're using SuSE 9.2, you might want to ADDITIONALLY have a look at Compiling on SuSE 9.2. As mentioned on that page as well, yo...
r11 - 14 Aug 2016 - 21:33 by KennethLavrsen
MotionOverview
Motion Overview 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 pi...
r26 - 14 Aug 2016 - 21:01 by KennethLavrsen
KnownProblems
Known Problems See also the Frequently Asked Questions and Bug Reports for known open bugs. If you use use a Logitech Quickcam Orbit or Sphere using the dri...
r18 - 14 Aug 2016 - 18:14 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionMaskFile
Full path of the PGM (portable gray map) mask file (binary format). If you have one or more areas of the camera image in which you do NOT want motion detected (e....
r9 - 10 Aug 2016 - 18:51 by ChrisAAA
MiscellaneousInformation
Miscellaneous Information An index of topics related to Motion that does not fit in any other bucket. Site Maintenance Topics For Developers * ConfigFileOpti...
r31 - 07 Aug 2016 - 21:30 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigFileOptionsBulk
Config File Options Bulk Editor To create a new option go to CreateNewOption To remove it change the group to Obsolete " else="Edit and lock the topics"}% Opt...
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 21:28 by KennethLavrsen
CreateNewOption
Create New Option This form creates a new Foswiki topic for a new motion.conf option based on the ConfigOptionTemplate. This is used by administrators to create n...
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 21:27 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTemplate
%NOP{ * Note: Do not edit this topic. Go to relevant ConfigFileOptions topic * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.AdminGroup }%
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 21:25 by KennethLavrsen
MotionTechnology
Technology Detecting motion Motion detects motion by comparing the intensity of pixels in a fresh grabbed image with a reference image. Color information is not ...
r9 - 07 Aug 2016 - 21:07 by KennethLavrsen
Group
Config Groups Do not remove or rename the groups. All config options that exist will be without a value when they are edited if the current value is not there. In...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:37 by KennethLavrsen
MotionPatches
Patches for Motion Note this is a historic archive. The development has moved to Github so that is now the proper way to develop patches Patches Planned Patch ...
r21 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:24 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionBrightness
Value 0 means that Motion does not set the brightness value but leaves it unchanged. If this setting is used in conjunction with the auto_brightness feature, then...
r10 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionEventGap
Recommended value is 60 seconds (Default). The value 0 is allowed (but not recommended) and disables events causing all Motion to be written to one single movie f...
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionLogType
This enables users and developers to isolate logging information to a specific area of interest. The log types are Short Name COR Core STR ...
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackStepsize
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionWebcontrolHtmlOutput
The recommended value for most is "on" which means that you can navigate and control Motion with a normal browser. By setting this option to "off" the replies are...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionOnEventStart
Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to set the execution bit in the ACL and if it is a script type program s...
r8 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionStreamMaxrate
Don't set 'stream_maxrate' too high unless you only use it on the localhost or on an internal LAN.
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTextChanges
By setting this option to 'on' the number of pixels that changed compared to the reference frame is displayed in the upper right corner of the pictures. This is g...
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackMotory
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackStepAngleX
Requires a tracking camera type pwc
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionAutoBrightness
Motion will try to adjust the brightness of the video device if the images captured are too dark or too light. This option will be most useful for video devices l...
r13 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionExifText
You can use conversion specifiers in this option.
NEW - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionNoiseLevel
This is different from the threshold parameter. This is changes at pixel level. The purpose is to eliminate the changes generated by electric noise in the camera....
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTextEvent
The idea is that %C can be used filenames and text_left/right for creating a unique identifier for each event. Option text_event defines the value %C which then ...
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionThreshold
The 'threshold' option is the most important detection setting. When motion runs it compares the current image frame with the previous and counts the number of ch...
r15 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionWebcontrolLocalhost
By setting this to on, the control using http (browser) can only be accessed on the same machine on which Motion is running.
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSnapshotFilename
Default value is equivalent to legacy 'oldlayout' option. For Motion 3.0 compatible mode (directories based on date and time) choose: %Y/%m/%d/%H/%M/%S snapshot F...
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTextLeft
text_left is displayed in the lower left corner of the pictures. If the option is not defined no text is displayed at this position. You can place the text in quo...
r11 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackMoveWait
The actual delay is depending on the chosen framerate. If you want the camera to move maximum once every 2 seconds and the framerate is 10 then you need to set th...
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackPort
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionHeight
The height of the image in pixels. Motion does not scale so should be set to the actual size of the v4l device. In case of a net camera motion sets the height to ...
r8 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionMaxMovieTime
The parameter sets the limit of the time and not the size of the file
NEW - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSqlLogSnapshot
Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL support to use this feature.
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSqlQuery
Most common conversion specifiers * %Y = year, %m = month, %d = date * %H = hour, %M = minute, %S = second * %v = event * %q = frame number * %t =...
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionStreamLimit
Number can be defined by multiplying actual webcam rate by desired number of seconds. Actual webcam rate is the smallest of the numbers framerate and stream_maxra...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFfmpegVideoCodec
Supported formats are: * mpeg4 or msmpeg4 gives you files with extension .avi * msmpeg4 is recommended for use with Windows Media Player because it requir...
r13 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionLocateMotionMode
The value 'preview' only works when 'output_normal' is set to either 'first' or 'best'.
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionPictureType
The recommendation is to always use jpg except if you have a specific need to store high quality pictures without any quality loss. For web cameras you should alw...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionStreamPreviewNewline
Preview images are placed on to the webcontrol home page in thread number order. This parameter allows the user some flexibility in organizing the images on the p...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionStreamQuality
The mjpeg stream consists of a header followed by jpeg frames separated by content length and boundary string. The quality level defines the size of the individua...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionMotionVideoPipe
Using this you can view the results in real time. E.g. by using the program camstream. The difference between this option and the video pipe option is that this o...
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionRoundrobinFrames
The Round Robin feature is automatically activated where multiple threads are sharing the same video device. Each thread can then set different input channels or ...
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTargetDir
This is the target directory for all snapshots, images files and movie files. You will normally always want to specify this parameter as an absolute path. Note t...
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTextRight
text_right is displayed in the lower right corner of the pictures. If the option is not defined no text is displayed at this position. You can place the text in q...
r11 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTimelapseFilename
Default value is equivalent to legacy 'oldlayout' option. File extension .mpg is automatically added so do not include this. This option uses conversion specifier...
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionWidth
Motion does not scale so should be set to the actual size of the v4l device. In case of a net camera motion sets the height to the height of the first image read....
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFfmpegVariableBitrate
Experiment for the value that gives you the desired compromise between size and quality.
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionPreCapture
Motion buffers the number of picture frames defined by 'pre_capture'. When motion is detected the pictures in the buffer are included in the video clip generated ...
r8 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSdlThreadnr
This feature is considered experimental in nature
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionStreamLocalhost
By setting this to on, the webcam can only be accessed on the same machine on which Motion is running.
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTextDouble
This option makes the text defined by text_left, text_right and text_changes twice the normal size. This may be useful when using large picture formats such as 64...
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackMaxx
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFfmpegTimelapseMode
Note that it is important that you use the conversion specifiers in ffmpeg_filename that ensure that the new timelapse file indeed is a new file. If the filename ...
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionOnMotionDetected
To disable the feature simply do not include the option in the file or comment it out by placing a "#" or ";" as the first character on the line before the execut...
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionOnMovieStart
Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to set the execution bit in the ACL and if it is a script type program s...
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionQuality
100 means hardly compressed. A small number means a much smaller file size but also a less nice quality image to look at. 50 is a good compromise for most.
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSqlLogPicture
Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL support to use this feature.
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionEmulateMotion
This feature is not meant to be the normal mode of operation. Especially not if you have any of the picture or movie features enabled since it will keep on saving...
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFfmpegOutputMovies
Generates a new film at the beginning of each new event and appends to the film for each motion detected within the same event. The current event ends when the ti...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionOnMovieEnd
Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to set the execution bit in the ACL and if it is a script type program s...
r10 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackAuto
Requires a tracking camera type supported by Motion.
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionVideodevice
This is the video4linux device name. Ignore this for net cameras.
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionLightswitch
Experiment to see what works best for your application. Note: From version 3.1.17 (snap release 2 and on) this option has changed from a boolean (on or off) to a ...
r11 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionMinimumFrameTime
This option is used when you want to capture images at a rate lower than 2 per second. When this is enabled the framerate option is used only to set the pace the ...
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionPowerLineFrequency
These are the valid values Value Description 1 Do not modify device setting 0 Power line frequency Disabled 1 50 Hz 2 60 Hz 3 A...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionRoundrobinSkip
The Round Robin feature is automatically activated where multiple threads are sharing the same video device. Each thread can then set different input channels or ...
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSwitchfilter
This is a round robin related feature used when you have a capture card with multiple inputs (controlled by the 'input' option) on the same videodevice.
r12 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionNorm
This value is only used for capture cards using the BTTV driver.
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionProcessIdFile
When Motion is started and this option is defined, Motion creates a file containing the process ID if the main Motion thread. This can be used by scripts to ident...
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSqlLogMovie
Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL support to use this feature.
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionVideoPipe
Using this you can view the results in real time. E.g. by using the program camstream. Disable this option by not having it in the config file (or comment it out ...
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionDatabaseType
Motion can be compiled with MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite3 database support. When enabled Motion can be configured to add a record to a table in the database as spe...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFramerate
The faster you fetch pictures from the camera the more CPU load you get and the more pictures get included when Motion is detected. Motion will stop storing pictu...
r9 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFrequency
This option is only relevant if you have a TV tuner card where you can select the tuner frequency. Your tuner card must support this feature.
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionStreamAuthMethod
The parameters have the following meaning. * 0 = disabled * 1 = Basic authentication * 2 = MD5 digest (the safer authentication) Note that if you are ena...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionThresholdTune
This feature makes Motion continuously adjust the threshold for declaring motion. The threshold setting is ignored when activating this feature. It may give diffe...
r8 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackIomojoId
Only used for iomojo camera.
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionNetcamProxy
Use this if you need to connect to a network camera through a proxy server. Example of syntax: "http://myproxy.mydomain.com:1024 If the proxy port number is 80 y...
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionOutputDebugPictures
Motion images shows the motion content of the pictures. This is good for tuning and testing but probably not very interesting for the general public. Default is n...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionOutputPictures
If you set the value to 'first' Motion saves only the first motion detected picture per event. If you set it to "best" Motion saves the picture with most changed ...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackMaxy
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionDespeckle
A way of tuning (by removing or enhancing) noise in the motion image. Options for the despeckle feature are any of 'e', 'E', 'd' or 'D'. This can be combined by a...
r9 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionNetcamUrl
Motion can connect to a network camera through a normal TCP socket. All you need to give it is the URL. The URL given must return either one single jpeg picture o...
r12 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionPictureFilename
This option uses conversion specifiers which are codes that start by % and then a letter. The conversion specifiers used has the same function as for the C functi...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionPostCapture
The purpose of this is mainly to create smooth video clips each time motion is detected. Use it to you personal taste (and disk space).. This option is the prefer...
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSmartMaskSpeed
Smartmask is a dynamic, self learning mask. Smartmask will disable sensitivity in areas with frequent motion (like trees in the wind). Sensitivity is turned on ag...
r8 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionHue
Normally only relevant for NTSC cameras.
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionIpv6Enabled
This sets the TCP/IP port number to be used for control of motion using http (browser). Port numbers below 1024 normally requires that you have root privileges. P...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionMinimumMotionFrames
Note that the picture frames are buffered by Motion and once motion is detected also the first frames containing motion are saved so you will not miss anything. T...
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionMovieFilename
File extension .mpg or .avi is automatically added so do not include this. This option uses conversion specifiers which are codes that start by % and then a lette...
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionLocateMotionStyle
* Set to 'box' will draw the traditional box. * Set to 'redbox' will draw a red box. * Set to 'cross' will draw a little cross to mark center. * Set to '...
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionLogLevel
You can use this parameter to set how much information you want from the logging. You will typically use a high value when you are trouble shooting a problem. The...
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionStreamMotion
Use this option to save bandwidth when there is not anything important to see from the camera anyway.
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackType
Motion has special tracking options which use either a serial stepper motor controller, an iomojo smile cam or a Philips WebCam driver compatible pan/tilt camera ...
r10 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionInput
This parameter is really used only with video capture cards that has more than one input. However if you set the input number to e.g. 1 for a USB camera motion wr...
r8 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionNetcamKeepalive
* off: The historical implementation using HTTP/1.0, closing the socket after each http request. * on: Use HTTP/1.1 requests that support keep alive as default...
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionNoiseTune
This feature makes Motion continuously adjust the noise threshold for distinguishing between noise and motion. The 'noise_level' setting is ignored when activatin...
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionStreamPort
Note that each camera thread must have its own unique port number and it must also be different from the webcontrol_port number. A good value to select is 8081 fo...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionThread
This is used when you have more than one camera/device. The single camera can get all its options from the default motion.conf file. If you have two or more camer...
r9 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackMotorx
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTunerdevice
Make sure to remove or comment out this option when running Motion under Linux.
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionAreaDetect
Areas are numbered like that: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 One or more areas can be specified with this option. Example: You want to mon...
r8 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionDaemon
Daemon mode is what you typically will use once you are done experimenting and have motion run permanently in the background on a server. Wonder about the word an...
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionOnEventEnd
Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to set the execution bit in the ACL and if it is a script type program s...
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionOnPictureSave
Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to set the execution bit in the file access control list (chmod) and if ...
r12 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackStepAngleY
Requires a tracking camera type pwc
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionWebcontrolAuthentication
By setting this to on, the control using http (browser) can only be accessed using login and password ( following the Basic Authentication defined in HTTP RFC )
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFfmpegTimelapse
This feature uses ffmpegs libavcodec to encode a timelapse movie saving a picture frame at the interval in seconds set by this parameter. Setting this option to 0...
r8 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionQuiet
Only works in non daemon mode.
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionRotate
The rotation feature is used when the camera is hanging upside down (180 degrees) or if you choose a picture format in portrait instead of the normal landscape (9...
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSnapshotInterval
The snapshots are stored in the target directory the directory/filename specified by the snapshot_filename option. This is the traditional web camera feature wh...
r9 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionTrackSpeed
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionWebcontrolPort
This sets the TCP/IP port number to be used for control of motion using http (browser). Port numbers below 1024 normally requires that you have root privileges. P...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFfmpegBps
To use this feature you need to install the FFmpeg Streaming Multimedia System. Experiment to get the desired quality. The better quality the bigger files. This o...
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFfmpegOutputDebugMovies
Works like ffmpeg_output_movies but outputs motion pixel type pictures instead. This feature generates the special motion type movie where you only see the pixels...
r2 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSetupMode
When this option is turned on, Motion starts in setup mode so that the parameters can be set more easily. You can run setup mode in either console mode or daemon ...
r10 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSqlLogTimelapse
Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL support to use this feature.
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionV4L2Palette
Supported values are Value Name Short 0 V4L2_PIX_FMT_SN9C10X S910 1 V4L2_PIX_FMT_SBGGR16 BYR2 2 V4L2_PIX_FMT_SBGGR8 BA81 ...
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionMaxMpegTime
The parameter sets the limit of the time and not the size of the file
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 19:43 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionForm
Form Topic for motion.conf options Name:* *Type: Size: Values: Tooltip message: Option text 50 Option Name always lower case and with under...
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 17:12 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionWebcamQuality
The mjpeg stream consists of a header followed by jpeg frames separated by content length and boundary string. The quality level defines the size of the individua...
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 15:40 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionWebcamMotion
Use this option to save bandwidth when there is not anything important to see from the camera anyway. Note that this feature was greatly improved from Motion vers...
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 15:37 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionWebcamMaxrate
Don't set 'webcam_maxrate' too high unless you only use it on the localhost or on an internal LAN.
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 15:33 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionWebcamLocalhost
By setting this to on, the webcam can only be accessed on the same machine on which Motion is running.
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 15:31 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionWebcamLimit
Number can be defined by multiplying actual webcam rate by desired number of seconds. Actual webcam rate is the smallest of the numbers framerate and webcam_maxra...
r3 - 07 Aug 2016 - 15:28 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionWebcamPort
Note that each camera thread must have its own unique port number and it must also be different from the control_port number. A good value to select is 8081 for c...
r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 15:24 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSqlLogMpeg
Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL support to use this feature.
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 12:32 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionSqlLogImage
Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL support to use this feature.
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 12:30 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionPpm
The recommendation is to always use jpg except if you have a specific need to store high quality pictures without any quality loss. For web cameras you should alw...
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 12:05 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionPgsqlPort
PostgreSQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with PostgreSQL libraries to use this feature.
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 12:01 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionOutputNormal
If you set the value to 'first' Motion saves only the first motion detected picture per event. If you set it to "best" Motion saves the picture with most changed ...
r9 - 07 Aug 2016 - 12:00 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionOutputMotion
Motion images shows the motion content of the pictures. This is good for tuning and testing but probably not very interesting for the general public. Default is n...
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 11:56 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionOutputAll
This feature is not meant to be the normal mode of operation. Especially not if you have the output_normal or output_motion features enabled since it will keep on...
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 11:50 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionNetcamHttp
* 1.0: the historical implementation using HTTP/1.0, closing the socket after each http request. * keep_alive: Use HTTP/1.0 requests with keep alive header to ...
r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 11:09 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionPgsqlUser
PostgreSQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with PostgreSQL libraries to use this feature.
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 10:43 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionPgsqlPassword
PostgreSQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with PostgreSQL libraries to use this feature
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 10:42 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionPgsqlHost
PostgreSQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with pgsql_db libraries to use this feature.
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 10:42 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionPgsqlDb
PostgreSQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with PostgreSQL libraries to use this feature. If you compiled motion with PostgreSQL support you will need to...
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 10:42 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionMysqlUser
MySQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with MySQL libraries to use this feature
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 10:41 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionMysqlPassword
MySQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with MySQL libraries to use this feature.
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 10:41 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionMysqlDb
MySQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with MySQL libraries to use this feature. If you compiled motion with MySQL support you will need to set the mysql ...
r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 10:41 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionMysqlHost
MySQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with MySQL libraries to use this feature
r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 10:21 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionLocate
The value 'preview' only works when 'output_normal' is set to either 'first' or 'best'.
r4 - 06 Aug 2016 - 22:40 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionJpegFilename
Default value is equivalent to legacy 'oldlayout' option. For Motion 3.0 compatible mode (directories based on date and time) choose: %Y/%m/%d/%H/%M/%S %q This op...
r7 - 06 Aug 2016 - 22:35 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionGap
Recommended value is 60 seconds (Default). The value 0 is allowed (but not recommended) and disables events causing all Motion to be written to one single mpeg fi...
r7 - 06 Aug 2016 - 22:11 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFfmpegFilename
Default value is equivalent to legacy 'oldlayout' option For Motion 3.0 compatible mode (directories based on date and time) choose: %Y/%m/%d/%H%M%S File extensio...
r7 - 06 Aug 2016 - 21:43 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFfmpegDeinterlace
To use this feature you need to install the FFmpeg Streaming Multimedia System Must not be included in config file without having ffmpeg installed.
r2 - 06 Aug 2016 - 21:41 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFfmpegCapNew
Generates a new film at the beginning of each new event and appends to the film for each motion detected within the same event. The current event ends when the ti...
r6 - 06 Aug 2016 - 21:39 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionFfmpegCapMotion
Works like ffmpeg_cap_new but outputs motion pixel type pictures instead. This feature generates the special motion type movie where you only see the pixels that ...
r6 - 06 Aug 2016 - 21:36 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionControlPort
This sets the TCP/IP port number to be used for control of motion using http (browser). Port numbers below 1024 normally requires that you have root privileges. P...
r5 - 06 Aug 2016 - 21:26 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionControlLocalhost
By setting this to on, the control using http (browser) can only be accessed on the same machine on which Motion is running.
r5 - 06 Aug 2016 - 21:22 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionControlAuthentication
By setting this to on, the control using http (browser) can only be accessed using login and password ( following the Basic Authentication defined in HTTP RFC )
r4 - 06 Aug 2016 - 21:20 by KennethLavrsen
ConfigOptionControlHtmlOutput
The recommended value for most is "on" which means that you can navigate and control Motion with a normal browser. By setting this option to "off" the replies are...
r5 - 06 Aug 2016 - 21:18 by KennethLavrsen
CaptureDeviceOptions
Capture Device Options The Basic Setup Before you can start using motion you need to know some basics about your camera. Either you have a camera connected dire...
r15 - 05 Aug 2016 - 20:41 by KennethLavrsen
SupportQuestion2016x08x03x133804
Question I just bought a simple network camera, the TP Link NC200 (UN). I managed to discover the still images and am able to download them using wget. I tried to...
NEW - 03 Aug 2016 - 14:50 by SvenWallage
SupportQuestion2016x07x29x173843
Question I am seeing corrupted images triggering motion detection. It does not always happen and not easy to reproduce, but it does trigger motion detection and I...
NEW - 29 Jul 2016 - 17:46 by MishaBirman
FeatureRequest2016x07x15x000534
Feature Request: Description I have problems with changing light conditions that I haven't been able to solve using the current setting options including use of...
r2 - 15 Jul 2016 - 11:03 by HansPalm
ActiveX
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NEW - 10 Jul 2016 - 05:42 by JaimeCataño
BugReport2006x12x18x192713
BUG: Since I have changed some config in my wireless setting, my IPcam (Dlink 2100 ) sometimes disconnect and reconnect to the wireless network. Motion detects t...
r9 - 30 Jun 2016 - 00:12 by PhilipWalden
SupportQuestion2016x06x29x074837
Question Hi, I want to use Motion Stream URL in WebGL Context Three.js. But, I can't because it seems Motion Web Server doesn't support CORS feature itself. So ...
NEW - 29 Jun 2016 - 07:52 by KimMinSu
FeatureRequest2015x05x03x111423
Feature Request: Description I would like to be able to specify one or more filename which is read every x frames, and then be able to add them to, for instance...
r2 - 28 Jun 2016 - 16:58 by JeremyMJ
BugReport2016x06x23x135630
BUG: #MySpecs motion Version 3.2.12 git20140228 Python 3.4.2 Raspberry Pi 3 model B Topic alredy opened on Mar 30, 2014 here https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/v...
NEW - 23 Jun 2016 - 14:22 by SimoneRiccardi
FeatureRequest2006x03x07x190118
Feature Request: Description I'd like to have the option of specifying a name for each thread which could be incorporated into strings (filenames etc) as an al...
r4 - 13 Jun 2016 - 09:23 by DickMiddleton
SupportQuestion2016x06x12x113740
Question I am trying to connect to motion stream via ipv6. ipv4 with VLC works fine. How do I need to set the address in VLC/Chromium ? http:// fd00:xxxx:xxx:xxxx...
NEW - 12 Jun 2016 - 11:57 by JanSundermeyer
SupportQuestion2016x06x06x194128
Question I recently purchased a Zmodo DVR (ZMD DX SIN8). It has H.264 video available on Port 9000 and can connect up to 8 cameras. I searched this Wiki but I d...
NEW - 06 Jun 2016 - 19:49 by BillS
FeatureRequest2012x07x13x131211
Feature Request: Description I have noticed that motion often false activate recording when it capture huge light change. For example at sunrises and sunsets. I...
r2 - 30 May 2016 - 16:36 by DmitryK
FeatureRequest2015x09x13x171314
Feature Request: Description I #39;d like to have the option to save motion files as mp4. Main.NiekHombrouckx 13 Sep 2015 Follow up Comments I would like ...
r3 - 30 May 2016 - 13:21 by DmitryK
ZoneMinder
ZoneMinder Introduction ZoneMinder is video and CCTV surveillance and security application. It supports multiple video or IP cameras and a sophisticated motion d...
NEW - 30 May 2016 - 13:14 by DmitryK
FeatureRequest2013x12x04x172756
Feature Request: Description Raspberry Pi camera and infr camera support for the new cameras that connect via the CSI Camera port near the ethernet jack. Sorry...
r18 - 30 May 2016 - 13:01 by DmitryK
FeatureRequest2008x08x29x012221
Feature Request: Description hi! First sorry my terrible bad english. Could it be posible to encode movies directly as mp4 or mov "hinted" movies ? I'm trying ...
r2 - 30 May 2016 - 12:54 by DmitryK
MotionEye
motionEye Introduction motionEye is a modern and responsive web frontend for motion. The goal is to provide the user with an accessible web interface for most ...
r4 - 30 May 2016 - 12:39 by DmitryK
FeatureRequest2015x06x28x011059
Feature Request: Description some cameras have microfon so it would be nice to stream audio and video to internet. v4l2 audio suport would be nice too. So could...
r2 - 30 May 2016 - 12:37 by DmitryK
MotionMissionStatement
Motion Mission Statement It had to happen. Motion as a project also needs a mission statement. Motion is a program that tries to follow these basic principles. ...
r6 - 27 May 2016 - 08:16 by JosephHeenan
FI8904W
Main.AlbertHernaus 25 May 2016
NEW - 25 May 2016 - 10:30 by AlbertHernaus
SupportQuestion2016x05x22x143917
Question Hi, I'm trying to set Motion to use .local domains, but Motion doesn't resolve the address. It works only using the IP address. the mjpeg stream address ...
NEW - 22 May 2016 - 14:54 by DanielFarfan
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Question Hi motion community/developers, I need to know which one is the suggested version for ffmpeg that is supposed to work correctly with the current trunk ve...
NEW - 21 May 2016 - 10:38 by RiccardoB
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Feature Request: Description I'm sorry but I'm not good with the English, and I am writing through an interpreter. If thread /etc/motion/thread0.conf : netca...
r2 - 20 May 2016 - 07:56 by DimaDima
DLink
D Link DCS 900W wireless (802.11b) net camera Worked out of the box. The only config I had to do was to set the camera IP address and 802.11b settings. It came wi...
r15 - 19 May 2016 - 19:49 by StephensSeattle
BugReport2016x05x18x185949
BUG: I installed motion on banana pi and it works great. I use an IP camera via rtsp port and everything works good. I have installed mysql and created the table...
NEW - 18 May 2016 - 19:06 by VictorO
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Question I have an ELEC IP camera that I want to add to motion eye. I have a url for viewing the stream, and I can get it to work in VLC. rtsp://192.168.x.x:554/h...
NEW - 11 May 2016 - 01:59 by BryceLunt
SmtpEmailNotifyAction
Someone is in your main room Main.KamalGevariya 02 May 2016
NEW - 02 May 2016 - 10:14 by KamalGevariya
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Question I'm with debian os. I've made a ".motion" directory for motion.conf file and for saving captures but parameters from motion.conf file are not available a...
NEW - 24 Apr 2016 - 12:29 by VavinCavent
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Question I am trying to configure the Foscam FI9803P V2 camera and it is not working. Hi, My configuration file is: netcam_url http://URL:8094/cgi bin/CGIProxy.fc...
NEW - 18 Apr 2016 - 13:01 by ManuelBesoain
SupportQuestion2016x04x09x032704
Question Is it possible to instruct Motion to create animated GIFs from a series of images taken at motion detection, and then send each GIF once created to the u...
NEW - 09 Apr 2016 - 03:43 by ZamarAcido
SupportQuestion2016x04x06x200827
Question I'd like to be able to compute the speed of an object, but would need to know the exact time of capture for frames. Is there a way to obtain this from mo...
NEW - 06 Apr 2016 - 20:13 by GatorY
SupportQuestion2016x04x06x112400
Question Hi, sorry for starting a new thread, cant seem to add to my previous one. I am using motion Version 3.2.12 git20140228. I have the following settings: o...
NEW - 06 Apr 2016 - 11:33 by StuartBloom
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Question Hello In order to make my own video surveillance system i would want to use motion with a raspberry py and an external infrared sensor. I've already find...
NEW - 12 Mar 2016 - 17:05 by JeanEude
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Feature Request: Description I am having trouble with sunlight causing many false alarms. My thought was: Changing sunlight causes my black masked pixels to pro...
NEW - 09 Mar 2016 - 20:48 by ChristianSp
FeatureRequest2016x03x07x060126
Feature Request: Description 1st thank you to everybody who is involved in programming and maintaining this excellent software! It #39;s possible to mask the ou...
NEW - 07 Mar 2016 - 06:43 by DirkS
SupportQuestion2016x03x01x193118
Question I have been running 3.1.12 on Lubuntu 12.10 using tw68 v2 driver for 3 years. I have 6 analog cameras attached to an 8 channel pci card. It has been very...
NEW - 01 Mar 2016 - 20:23 by TonySimpson
SupportQuestion2016x02x24x175519
Question My motion videos pause every second instead of playing smoothly. On a previous install of motion (3.2.12), I did not have this issue. My motion video cap...
NEW - 24 Feb 2016 - 18:09 by JewbixCube
BugReport2016x02x17x163714
BUG: I can't install motion completely, some lib are available others not ... strange ! Note: I have made before an update , upgrade and reboot on my raspberry w...
NEW - 17 Feb 2016 - 16:45 by NicoBoileau
SupportQuestion2016x02x13x082142
Question Motion is unable to open the video device for a RTSP network stream. At one time it worked, but an update from v4l to v4l2 broke motion. I updated motion...
NEW - 13 Feb 2016 - 08:30 by AllanBogh
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BUG: Hello. I am having trouble using the Motion wrong with Raspberry / Raspbian. When running motion, an error occurs in libavformat53 (not found). Is there any...
NEW - 12 Feb 2016 - 00:35 by RovilsonFMartins
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Question I installed motion (motion Version 3.2.12 git20140228) from the Raspian repository in a newly installed Raspian Jessie image (2016 02 03 raspbian jessie...
r3 - 11 Feb 2016 - 06:29 by JoelK
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Question Hello! I have a network camera with 1280x720 at a frame rate of 30 but when I activate the frame in motion on 30 runs the video what I in mpeg4 receiving...
NEW - 10 Feb 2016 - 09:28 by SteffenEwald
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Question I am using a logitech camera with autofocus. At night the autofocus gets completely confused and leaves the camera wildly out of focus. From command line...
r2 - 09 Feb 2016 - 17:14 by IaMalcolm
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Question I got the server running and everything seems well, but i've got some strange color problem with my webcam. At the beggining I had two problems: 1. I had...
r2 - 08 Feb 2016 - 10:27 by IaMalcolm
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Feature Request: Description Can record the sound too when a Webcam has a mic built in? Raymond Day Main.RaymondDay 30 Jan 2016 Follow up Comments
NEW - 30 Jan 2016 - 13:42 by RaymondDay
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Feature Request: Description Something to know it #39;s saving the video over lay on the video. All so is there a way to record sound if a Webcam has mics built...
NEW - 30 Jan 2016 - 13:40 by RaymondDay
FeatureRequest2009x06x23x045436
Feature Request: Description In addition to HTTP serving up files, these streams are generally available over RTSP for IP cameras. The folks over at LIVE555 Str...
r27 - 29 Jan 2016 - 19:53 by DmitryTsarev
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Question Linux GP7 500 3.16.0 4 686 pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7 ckt20 1 deb8u3 (2016 01 17) i686 GNU/Linux motion Version 3.2.12 git20140228 Fresh Debian 8 server wi...
NEW - 29 Jan 2016 - 17:53 by JonBaker
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Question This is my first time using Motion and I am having a interesting issue. Every time I start Motion either one or both of my cameras will register a motion...
NEW - 26 Jan 2016 - 16:44 by MarkMiller31
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Feature Request: Description It would be nice to have a way to add images (e.g. a logo) at some position. An extended feature of this kind would be a complete...
r3 - 25 Jan 2016 - 07:46 by FrancisDePaemeleere
SupportQuestion2016x01x22x144706
Question Hi, I'm a complete newbie, trying to install Motion, and it's failing. The output lines on the install messages are included below. It seems to be fail...
NEW - 22 Jan 2016 - 15:30 by MattDunn
BugReport2016x01x16x104627
BUG: It would be nice if Motion worked with an up to date V4L2. Please refactor code to utilize V4L2, or V4L1 as a fallback option. My first problem was a segmen...
r2 - 17 Jan 2016 - 10:48 by AllanBogh
MotionBrowser
Motion PHP Interface Introduction This is a PHP web application that allows you to browse through all events recorded by motion and watch / download the respecti...
r11 - 17 Jan 2016 - 03:26 by MalHedrick
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Question raspberry A / pi camera module debian wheezey 7.8 motion Version mmaltest, Copyright 2000 2005 Jeroen Vreeken/Folkert van Heusden/Kenneth Lavrsen from :...
NEW - 11 Jan 2016 - 18:57 by BilskerBoo
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Question I'm a complete Linux newbie. I can follow instructions, but cannot generate a single line in terminal, do not know how to tell what version of the OS I'm...
NEW - 10 Jan 2016 - 00:07 by CarlHart
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Question My project is Automatic License Plate Recognition (OpenALPR) to open a gate. I've a Raspberry Pi 2 with integrated cam. So far I managed to install Raspi...
NEW - 06 Jan 2016 - 19:51 by RaymondWarichet
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(Replace this text by a short headline for your project) Introduction What it does: Reduces CPU and network utilization by serving images to Motion that are pre ...
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Question Hello, I am new to motion and have a question, which I just cannot figure out: When using motion on a boat at a mooring, which slowly turns with the chan...
r2 - 27 Dec 2015 - 06:35 by MdFigley
SupportQuestion2015x12x24x132041
Question When viewing the video is fast moving. If you use codecs mpeg4 or mp4 video file is created from a single frame. What adjusts the speed of the video? dae...
NEW - 24 Dec 2015 - 13:43 by AlexanderYakovlev
BugReport2015x12x20x160725
BUG: Hi, I'm running motion via a netcam snapshot on a ubiquity, sometimes I got a corrupted frame from the cam and a motion is detected. There is a way to disca...
NEW - 20 Dec 2015 - 16:18 by MaurizioA
SupportQuestion2015x12x09x034630
Question Hi, I'been working on a project to configure my Raspberry Pi, Motion and Telegram. The idea is to send a message to Telegram on my Android when an event ...
r3 - 17 Dec 2015 - 11:27 by JuanPita
FeatureRequest2015x12x14x021234
Feature Request: Description Can you somehow code it so the camera is in a sleep mode then when motion is detected it comes alive? I use IR cameras and they can...
NEW - 14 Dec 2015 - 02:15 by AlanLarson
FeatureRequest2015x12x11x075947
Feature Request: Description TinyCam Monitor (Android app) has this feature that lets the admin know how many are logged in and viewing the webcam feed. It woul...
NEW - 11 Dec 2015 - 08:14 by ReCp
SupportQuestion2015x11x30x142402
Question HI i have created a mask file, however, it doesn't seem to work in that motion is detected in the black areas. My mask is attached, could someone have a...
r2 - 11 Dec 2015 - 03:06 by SethD
SupportQuestion2015x12x07x212420
Question I've had Motion running for several years, connected to 9 IP cameras. It's all running on a Pogo Plug and has been working fine, until a while back we ha...
NEW - 07 Dec 2015 - 22:22 by DavidPowell
SupportQuestion2015x12x06x180232
Question How do I enable the Raw mode output from the API? The wiki page for the api mentions the raw mode, but does not say how to enable it. I found "?output...
NEW - 06 Dec 2015 - 18:29 by SethD
SupportQuestion2015x12x04x204304
Question I've installed Motion on Ubuntu 14.04 and configured it with my USBcamera (dev/video0). It all works great when I start Motion from the command line (sud...
NEW - 04 Dec 2015 - 20:50 by WayneGregori
SupportQuestion2015x09x17x080918
Question Hello, i have Rpi2 with 4 CPU cores bud motion using just one. Its possible to fixit? Thanks a lot. Environment Motion version: 3.2.12 ffmpeg...
r3 - 04 Dec 2015 - 11:09 by BoudelJenks
SupportQuestion2015x11x18x141357
Question Hi, sorry if this is a silly question. Is it possible to get motion to only store difference files whist motion is being detected? in other words, motio...
r5 - 30 Nov 2015 - 14:21 by StuartBloom
SupportQuestion2015x11x21x063236
Question I have a motion setup with IP cameras and I am having some issues. I have very bad video quality due to network loss. I have tested the camera quality wi...
r8 - 30 Nov 2015 - 04:21 by MrDave
SupportQuestion2015x10x05x231910
Question Is it possible to use a different video codec/encoder such as libx264 and output as .mp4? Paste in your error messages, config settings, terminal window ...
r2 - 22 Nov 2015 - 18:54 by MrDave
SupportQuestion2015x10x09x194939
Question Hi! Thank you for your application. I'm trying to connect ip camera via rtsp. netcam_url rtsp://192.168.25.100:554/live netcam_userpass admin:hKJE2MhiK9p...
r2 - 22 Nov 2015 - 18:52 by MrDave
BugReport2013x07x09x180501
BUG: I last build motion Sat Aug 18 22:11:02 2012 and it's been working fine ever since. Now a change in the version of ffmpeg libraries required a rebuilt afte...
r5 - 22 Nov 2015 - 18:49 by MrDave
SupportQuestion2015x10x12x201219
Question I am running an external command on the on_movie_end event. This external command may take some time to run, and I don't want motion to be paused waiting...
r2 - 22 Nov 2015 - 18:40 by MrDave
SupportQuestion2015x10x14x024210
Question I have a LaView LV CDP6014 network camera and I cannot find a way to add it to Motion. Specifically I am using MotionEye but I don't think that is releva...
r2 - 22 Nov 2015 - 18:37 by MrDave
FeatureRequest2015x10x25x140343
Feature Request: Description Open Network Video Interface Format is supported by an increasing number of IP surveillance cameras. That makes ONVIF an obvious st...
r2 - 22 Nov 2015 - 17:51 by MrDave
BugReport2015x11x05x002634
BUG: I have installed Motion on a new Raspberry Pi 2 with the latest "Jessie". I have never had any issues but now things are not working as they should be. With...
r2 - 22 Nov 2015 - 17:38 by MrDave
SupportQuestion2015x11x05x020025
Question Is there any way to make an installer for Mac OS? Forgive me but I'm not big into Linux/Unix or keen on how to compile source code properly. I see ther...
r2 - 22 Nov 2015 - 17:31 by MrDave
SupportQuestion2015x11x09x125704
Question what is method that use in this aplication to detecting the motion Environment Motion version: 3.2.12 ffmpeg version: Libraries: ffm...
r2 - 22 Nov 2015 - 17:26 by MrDave
SupportQuestion2015x11x01x100440
Question I have a IPC model LS IPK 15 camera from China that I can configure with NVSIP applicaiton (available for Android or iPhone). I can also acess to the s...
r2 - 22 Nov 2015 - 17:15 by MrDave
Logitech
Logitech 3000 and 4000 Both work very well. Driver: pwc/pwcx. Main.KennethLavrsen 15 Sep 2004 The new pwc only driver works well with my 4000 at 640x480. A gr...
r14 - 15 Nov 2015 - 05:09 by RaspI
MotionViewAndControll
An android App and Widget to view and control your Motion server from your phone Introduction Modified version of Simple Mjpeg streaming viewer for android ( htt...
r2 - 10 Nov 2015 - 14:47 by RatMole
PatchworkForNewRelease
A set of patches for "3.4" release Attached are a set of files for the creation of a new release. Installation of Patch Two variants of the same patches are subm...
r5 - 01 Nov 2015 - 16:28 by MrDave
BugReport2015x10x24x203225
BUG: If the capture device returns single jpeg pictures with size more 1mb then image will be truncated. The cause of this behaviour is the value of inline const...
NEW - 24 Oct 2015 - 20:38 by KonstantinSokolov
BugReport2015x10x23x194416
BUG: Crash With Logrotate I was having issues with the rpmfusion version of motion with Fedora 20 crashing late at night. I figured out that it was crashing when ...
NEW - 23 Oct 2015 - 20:01 by HarlanDaneker
SupportQuestion2015x10x16x151208
Question Hi All, I'm running Motion on a Raspberry Pi2. Everything seems to work OK as long as the target directory is set to the default /var/lib/motion. but whe...
NEW - 16 Oct 2015 - 16:00 by PuckeyP
SupportQuestion2015x10x12x121452
Question Hello everyone, I'm using Intel Edison mini breakout board which runs Yocto Linux operating system. I need help in 2 issues: 1) I'm trying to install Mot...
NEW - 12 Oct 2015 - 12:32 by FalakDesai
ACTi
To get ACTi cameras working you need the latest firmware for the camera. Use the value in motion.conf: netcam_url http://192.168.1.100/cgi bin/cmd/system?GET_STRE...
r5 - 06 Oct 2015 - 10:06 by DmitryTsarev
SupportQuestion2015x10x02x185939
Question Hi all, I'm trying to configure my Raspberry Pi as a DVR using the Pi Cam Module and several network IP cams (just one IP cam for now). I have Raspbian ...
r2 - 04 Oct 2015 - 17:23 by DouglasHurd
BugReport2015x09x30x203633
BUG: It seems that during init, pthread_getspecific( tls_key_threadnr ); is being called before the call to pthread_key_create(). On glibc I think getspecific i...
NEW - 30 Sep 2015 - 20:42 by DaveFlogeras
SupportQuestion2015x09x24x193945
Question Hi, first, thanks so much for providing this really useful piece of software! Here my question: Because of using an ethernet expander to bride about 20 ...
NEW - 24 Sep 2015 - 20:04 by DieterB
SupportQuestion2015x09x15x095956
Question Hi! I am referencing a motion stream on http://localhost:8081 but got a security error (the stream is displayed in a WebGL context). Do you know if there...
NEW - 15 Sep 2015 - 11:53 by FranceTittu
FeatureRequest2007x02x16x195401
Feature Request: Description I am looking for a way to automatically create a Edit Decision List (EDL) from video captured by multiple cameras. To do this I ne...
r7 - 11 Sep 2015 - 05:26 by GregBrandeau
SupportQuestion2015x09x04x201900
Question My motion server is a tiny Raspberry Pi with a USB camera. I don't know what frame rate it can maintain when recording, but I see the resulting .flv file...
NEW - 04 Sep 2015 - 21:02 by MarkusK
SupportQuestion2015x07x30x150540
Question I am tracking streams from two cameras and the resolution is relatively big, providing good quality videos but putting the CPU under heavy load. The came...
r2 - 04 Sep 2015 - 20:59 by MarkusK
SupportQuestion2015x06x25x083511
Question I am using motion with raspberry pi camera module, i want the output of motion to be only jpeg image and donot require video file to be saved . Currently...
r4 - 04 Sep 2015 - 20:51 by MarkusK
FeatureRequest2015x08x23x001605
Feature Request: Description alg_labeling give diffs feedback even when not over the threshold This is especially useful when picking a threshold to see how clo...
NEW - 23 Aug 2015 - 00:18 by DavidFries
SupportQuestion2015x08x21x032200
Question Is there a way to have motion run a script on detection instead of recording video? I've got an all in one with a webcam as a photo frame and I'd like t...
NEW - 21 Aug 2015 - 03:29 by DvrHax
SupportQuestion2015x08x20x095211
Question can you help me , when i use other resolution other than 352x288, always appear error log " main: Thread 1 Watchdog timeout, trying to do a graceful re...
NEW - 20 Aug 2015 - 10:00 by JonathanRahardjo
BugReport2013x10x29x172526
BUG: It's not really a bug, but I'm not sure where else to put it. Chrome now required MJPEG streams to be on html pages inside img tags. Can you please make thi...
r4 - 19 Aug 2015 - 17:16 by MiKn
MjpgStreamer
Convert v4l2 to mjpeg stream Introduction mjpg_streamer takes input from a v4l2 device and streams it in a format compatible with motion Detailed Description Ru...
r2 - 16 Aug 2015 - 17:55 by AibakiT
LoggingAgainstMotionStreamAuthPatch
Enable IP and Auth login attempts against Live Stream Description of Patch With the MotionStreamAuthPatch added to snapshot, we can expose the Live Stream Server...
r3 - 16 Aug 2015 - 15:37 by StevePowers
BugReport2015x07x30x234443
BUG: I have installed motion on several linux distros to see if this was distro dependant but it is not. Motion's all working well apart from the event_on_start...
NEW - 30 Jul 2015 - 23:51 by StephenCook
SupportQuestion2015x07x27x184223
Question I am trying to connect a Foscam FI9803P V2 to motion. The cam only supports RTSP with authentication. I tried 2 different settings in motion.conf which b...
NEW - 27 Jul 2015 - 18:56 by DanielLettau
A4Tech
A4Tech PK 900H (vimicro z star 0ac8:3500) 5960717.163368 usb 1 1: new high speed USB device number 9 using ehci pci 5960717.437133 usb 1 1: New USB device foun...
NEW - 23 Jul 2015 - 09:37 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2015x07x20x213901
Question Thank you for this free software and the support! I have installed motion 3.2.12 on my Raspberry Pi 2 on Ubuntu Mate 1.8.2 and I am using a USB webcam wi...
NEW - 20 Jul 2015 - 21:57 by RuGla
SupportQuestion2015x07x19x165037
Question Hi, I have a Philips SPC220NC USB webcam. The kernel driver is pac207. I can grab pictures from the camera e.g. with vgrabbj, but motion returns a "Error...
NEW - 19 Jul 2015 - 17:08 by KlingC
SupportQuestion2015x07x15x112754
Question I have a problem connecting motion to a rtsp camera stream, if i try a connection throug vlc it connect at once but when i try the same rtsp string in mo...
NEW - 15 Jul 2015 - 12:17 by KarstenDarre
SupportQuestion2015x07x13x031637
Question I've been using motion for a while now to display a web cam. I don't really utilize the motion detection but I do want to produce a daily time lapse vid...
NEW - 13 Jul 2015 - 03:40 by PaulMcCarthy
SupportQuestion2015x07x10x110304
Question Everything works fine until I updated to ubuntu 14.04. I am having problems with movie creation when I select mov as codec in ffmpeg_video_codec option. ...
r2 - 10 Jul 2015 - 13:05 by CarloOrecchia
SupportQuestion2015x06x28x233702
Question Hi I'm trying to get my motion run a script once the video file has been created. I installed motion according to this: http://elinux.org/RPi Cam Web Int...
NEW - 28 Jun 2015 - 23:48 by FlyingPersian
SupportQuestion2015x06x21x075421
Question Hi I have 3 IP cameras. 1 and 2 work flawlessly with motion as thread1 and thread2 and run at 720p. I'm using an up to date RPi2. The third camera is giv...
NEW - 21 Jun 2015 - 08:16 by DonAitken
UserFeedback
User Feedback You want to give feedback about Motion? This is the place. If you have support questions then please use the SupportRequests page to ask your su...
r81 - 16 Jun 2015 - 08:59 by VisitorWiki42
SupportQuestion2015x05x06x013406
Question I've compiled motion against my ffmpeg and it segfaults on detecting motion. I'm not quite sure it's motion's fault, but mpv plays videos fine. (gdb) run...
r2 - 15 Jun 2015 - 19:51 by MarcinJurkowski
SupportQuestion2015x06x15x095905
Question Is there any way to record from 4 cameras on any motion (on any of them) to one mpeg file that would have split screen to 4? Environment Motion versi...
NEW - 15 Jun 2015 - 10:25 by FlashT
LogitechSphereControl
Controlling a Logitech Sphere pan/tilt with Motion. To be able to control the Logitech Sphere you need one of the latest versions of the pwc driver. And you also ...
r21 - 12 Jun 2015 - 11:45 by SgtBlack
SupportQuestion2015x06x11x154355
Question I am having major problems getting my camera to connect. I have tried every option under the sun inside of motion.conf and I can't find the right netcam...
NEW - 11 Jun 2015 - 15:59 by XybotSmith
SupportQuestion2015x06x08x172246
Question My logitech C270 webcam will only work with the default width=320, height=240. When I change to 640x480, I get a segmentation fault. I have tried multipl...
NEW - 08 Jun 2015 - 17:43 by LinuxLearner
FeatureRequest2015x05x29x221057
Feature Request: Description You guys are doing a brilliant job with the motion software. First of all, I would like to thank you for that. I am using the http ...
NEW - 29 May 2015 - 22:14 by EnthusiasticMotionUser
SupportQuestion2015x05x17x163746
Question I have been using motion for a few days. It works fine, except when I attempt to add a command to the on_event_end parameter in the motion.conf script, ...
NEW - 17 May 2015 - 17:08 by GilbertWilliams
SupportQuestion2015x05x15x192612
Question i want to add "motion" in my c program. In detail is there any way to catch the event if motion is found by camera. Or any lib to integrate this with pro...
r2 - 15 May 2015 - 19:52 by SetuGupta
Axis
Axis 2100, 210 series net cameras (and quite possibly most Axis models) .. work very well with motion. Use this link in your motion.conf: * Axis 210: netcam_ur...
r6 - 15 May 2015 - 14:06 by AndersLarsson
SupportQuestion2015x05x07x014058
Question Calls to ffmpeg 2.2.14 are segfaulting again. 2.2.12 worked fine. If there any way to configure app to use ffmpeg externally (ie. piping the data into it...
NEW - 07 May 2015 - 01:51 by ChrisConner
SupportQuestion2015x05x05x175317
Question The system packages Debian 8 jessie no package ffmpeg only libav. Motion output has many jpg files. What should be done to rectify the situation? Paste i...
NEW - 05 May 2015 - 18:05 by IgorLimonov
SupportQuestion2015x05x02x074200
Question Hi all, i was trying out motion on my pi with a Logitech QuickCam. When i try to connect to the ip i just see a grey screen with 'unable to open video d...
NEW - 02 May 2015 - 07:45 by BartChaltin
SupportQuestion2015x04x28x143147
Question Is it possible to use an external script to show text on the screen? I would like to pull data from an external script and have it display in the event_...
NEW - 28 Apr 2015 - 14:48 by KeithSchmitt
SupportQuestion2015x04x22x174829
Question How to solve green only image? Camera is a Wanscam a foscam clone I believe. First camera thread working fine. Second green image. 2 End of camera conn...
NEW - 22 Apr 2015 - 18:51 by JamesRoots
SupportQuestion2015x04x22x121417
Question Motion was running fine for quite a long time built against ffmpeg 1.2.6 and with these patches: https://github.com/mapmot/moverlay/tree/master/media vid...
NEW - 22 Apr 2015 - 12:27 by StefanBruda
SupportQuestion2015x04x20x154721
Question Hi to all ! I have read this post http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/FeatureRequest2009x06x23x045436 and I have tried to download the motion G...
r3 - 22 Apr 2015 - 09:56 by EmilioDefranco
SupportQuestion2013x11x05x183558
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...
r4 - 22 Apr 2015 - 08:50 by DavidRobb
SupportQuestion2015x04x13x222017
Question hello, i am getting an error while starting motion on a rpi. /etc/init.d/motion: 2: /etc/default/motion: logfile: not found motion file start_motion_daem...
r4 - 21 Apr 2015 - 21:02 by ArnaudCognard
SupportQuestion2014x05x06x220454
Question Hello, I installed the Motion package on my RPi (v2, with Debian) with a RPi camera using the instructions given at http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6...
r4 - 12 Apr 2015 - 09:42 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2011x10x06x163706
Question My Motion runs for a while, generally around an hour then stops. The cameras are analog connected to an easycap device. I've just upgraded to 3.2.12 Any ...
r3 - 12 Apr 2015 - 09:23 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2014x10x12x155245
Question Hello, I try to install Motion on Slackware, and i have a lot of mistakes. Can you help me to instal Motion? Paste in your error messages, config setting...
r2 - 12 Apr 2015 - 09:21 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2014x12x02x171122
Question Afternoon there. I am using the latest version of mr dave's motion from git, running on Ubuntu 14.10, which initally runs pretty much successfully. Aft...
r2 - 12 Apr 2015 - 09:14 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2014x12x13x040558
Question Hi there, thanks for your work. Motion worked fine with F20. After the update to F21, with the same config file, when run it gives the error message belo...
r2 - 12 Apr 2015 - 09:09 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2015x01x09x181454
Question Hi there, it would be nice to have a stable release at some point, motion is great piece of software without equivalent on linux; and it is actively main...
r2 - 12 Apr 2015 - 09:07 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2015x01x23x222142
Question I try to use the following procedure in order to installa Motion on Centos: "RPM for Fedora on x86/x86 64 Available on RPM Fusion, build without DB sup...
r2 - 12 Apr 2015 - 09:00 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2015x01x29x172936
Question Hi, i've a smartphone android with ip webcam app installed and a debian pc with motion and ffmpeg installed. the smartphone in a url http://myip:8080/pho...
r3 - 12 Apr 2015 - 08:54 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2015x01x20x164957
Question Every image collected is spoiled by a number of blocky image artifacts that appear to be where regions of the image have been swapped or currupted. I am ...
r3 - 12 Apr 2015 - 08:51 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2015x02x26x122951
Question Hi all , excuse me but I am total noob in unix system so I follow a tutorial for installing motion . this one http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry P...
r4 - 12 Apr 2015 - 08:47 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2015x03x03x090955
Question Hello ! * I've configured "on_picture_save" to send me email with picture attached when motion detects movement = it works great ! :) * I've confi...
r3 - 12 Apr 2015 - 08:43 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2015x03x11x105920
Question Hello Motion support With a little tributaries, has managed to set up the Motion on the new Raspberry Pi 2, which have more resources to deal with than t...
r3 - 12 Apr 2015 - 08:37 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2015x03x23x002537
Question I am totally new to RasPi . I have to do this with my NOIR camera module on the B board: Enable the motion detect by sending a signal to an input p...
r2 - 12 Apr 2015 - 08:31 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2014x11x15x115926
Question I installed motion on asuswrt router through optware but when I start with "motion n" I get this error 1 ioctl (VIDIOCGCAP): Invalid argument Paste in...
r2 - 12 Apr 2015 - 08:27 by TosiaraT
SupportQuestion2011x01x09x193606
Question Hi, I am running into trouble with this camera in mjpeg mode: v4l2_palette 2 although YUYV works fine but the framerate is too low for the later (10 fps ...
r2 - 12 Apr 2015 - 08:20 by TosiaraT
BugReport2015x03x17x181334
BUG: After a while, some threads die. Actually, I still can access the web server of the cameras and see their picture, just motion lost the connection. Re start...
NEW - 17 Mar 2015 - 18:23 by HolgerJakobs
LinksToMotionWebcams
Links to Working Webcams driven by Motion You are very welcome to add a link and short description of your webcam below. Kenneth Lavrsen's Webcam Kenneth Lavrsen...
r71 - 15 Mar 2015 - 11:07 by JuanPabloDiaz
SupportQuestion2014x10x21x102158
Question I have the current trunk which supports RTSP, but I haven't been able to interface with my RSTP IP Cam. In motion.conf I'm using netcam_url rtsp://192.1...
r3 - 14 Mar 2015 - 06:39 by TosiaraT
FeatureRequest2014x04x10x134646
Feature Request: Description Raspberry Pi is gpu powerful devices but the cpu is equievalent to pentium 2 CPU is the bottleneck So motion software need improvem...
r5 - 13 Mar 2015 - 08:25 by JuergenHausladen
FeatureRequest2015x03x03x212850
Feature Request: Description I hope i didn #39;t overlooked some related suggestion. It would be great, for performance issues, to set a resolution for the moti...
NEW - 03 Mar 2015 - 22:16 by HansMLler
FeatureRequest2015x03x02x153909
Feature Request: Description Hi, nice piece of code, and stable to say first. My idea if one could use in on_picture_save something like ./mycode #37;x...
NEW - 02 Mar 2015 - 16:03 by JohnSmithCZ
MotionHttpAPI
API for HTTP Interface for Motion Output Modes The HTTP Interface have two output modes : * HTML : To use it from a web browser. * RAW : To easily be parse...
r34 - 28 Feb 2015 - 18:01 by AlAl
UmaskGroupPermission
Respect umask and allow group write permission on directories Description of Patch motion was not respecting umask (umask 0002) and allowing group write permissi...
NEW - 25 Feb 2015 - 17:52 by KennethBurgener
SupportQuestion2015x02x03x013740
Question I have been running Motion with a TrendNet IP100 and 2 Foscam 8910W cameras. Everything has been great, my only issue is that I end up with 10 20 images...
r2 - 17 Feb 2015 - 00:49 by AlanFord
SupportQuestion2015x02x09x042621
Question I would like see if my understanding about the sysconfdir configure script parameter is correct. According to http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Mot...
NEW - 09 Feb 2015 - 05:57 by AlanFord
TCPFastOpen
Enable "TCP Fast Open" especially for listening HTTP sockets Description of Patch TCP Fast Open can greatly reduce the latency of TCP connection setup. This espe...
NEW - 27 Jan 2015 - 12:52 by FolkertvanHeusden
GenCam
GenCam Introduction Happy browsing of cam events, your personal utube Detailed Description Attached Files http://22.fi/~jyvae/gencam.tar.gz Installation requi...
r8 - 23 Jan 2015 - 17:38 by JavierMarcon
WebHttpManyThreads
webhttpd for more than 9 threads Introduction The distributed version of motion 3.2.4 fails to set camera status if the camera thread number is more than 9. This...
r6 - 10 Jan 2015 - 21:25 by DavidPowell
FeatureRequest2015x01x07x051255
Feature Request: Description Maybe im going about this all wrong but i have tied all sorts of things. What im trying to do is be able to delete the files create...
NEW - 07 Jan 2015 - 05:13 by DavidJeffery
AvoidNullDereferenceRTSPConnect
Avoid null dereference in rtsp_connect() Description of Patch Avoid a segfault when netcam_url to a rtsp netcam is wrong. Installation of Patch Download the pat...
NEW - 16 Dec 2014 - 11:15 by ChristopheGRENIER
FixMemLeakNetcamRtsp
Fix memor leak when using rtsp camera Description of Patch Fix various memory leak reported by valgrind. Installation of Patch Download the patch file. If it is...
NEW - 16 Dec 2014 - 10:42 by ChristopheGRENIER
FeatureRequest2014x12x13x223108
Feature Request: Description I have a son with epilepsy and I would like to use Motion to detect potential seizures. I have tested that with a raspberry pi came...
NEW - 13 Dec 2014 - 22:31 by MikeC
BugReport2014x12x10x212122
BUG: As mentioned above, motion uses every few seconds more Memory, until it gets killed because of a "out of memory" message in syslog. I can see the memory usa...
NEW - 10 Dec 2014 - 21:34 by ChristopherStein
BugReport2014x12x10x101759
BUG: There is a memory leak in the error path of read_rtsp_image(). It has triggered an Out of Memory. Patch included. diff rup motion/netcam_rtsp.c motion.cgr/...
NEW - 10 Dec 2014 - 10:31 by ChristopheGRENIER
BugReport2014x12x04x135313
BUG: Camera sending 1920 x 1080 fails with: netcam image height (1080) is not modulo 16 A) I tried changing netcam.c where the check occurs to be '% 8' instead o...
r4 - 05 Dec 2014 - 23:36 by GeneC
MotionDetector
dockmotion Introduction A surveillance solution base on Motion and Docker. Detailed Description It's easy and ready to use. Just plug in a webcam and run dockmo...
r2 - 03 Dec 2014 - 13:30 by KeFeiLin
NetcamModulo16Patch
Netcam Modulo 16 Patch Uploaded by Main.KennethLavrsen on behalf of Main.PeterHolik who posted it on the mailing list. Introduction Motion cannot handle image di...
r11 - 23 Nov 2014 - 02:11 by AngelVera
SupportQuestion2014x02x26x164339
Question I was running motion with 2 analog cameras connected to a standard 4 video in audio to usb adapter. (Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e1:0408 Syntek Semiconduc...
r3 - 11 Nov 2014 - 01:58 by JulioReson
BugReport2014x09x02x113959
BUG: I use motion for my surveillance system and sometimes I get segfault when motion convert YUV420 to JPEG for streaming. I notice that this happens in some ci...
r3 - 10 Nov 2014 - 15:41 by GiovanniLicata
FeatureRequest2012x07x03x113916
Feature Request: Description At night or at a specific time span, lets say from 19:00 to 06:00, motion should automatic change its values threshold and noise_le...
r3 - 27 Oct 2014 - 13:16 by DirkBeer
BugReport2014x08x03x235204
BUG: I am not able to get motion to stream my network cameras. They are all wireless and I have already pre configured each one. I have the Foscam FI8910W and I ...
r2 - 26 Oct 2014 - 22:46 by MikeHoward
SupportQuestion2014x10x17x125508
Question Hello, I set up motion to capture a video if there is a motion within image of my door cam that works great. The main part of the image consists of the...
NEW - 17 Oct 2014 - 13:09 by RoBra81
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
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.  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
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