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1. Re: unable to start motion after it worked for many weeks
(David Bate)
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 09:55:05 +0100
From: "David Bate" <da...@belgraveplc.co.uk>
To: "'Motion discussion list'" <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] unable to start motion after it worked for
many weeks
Message-ID: <007501d3f7f3$e7efea90$b7cfbfb0$@belgraveplc.co.uk>
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Colin,
I resolved the problem. My camera cable was faulty. No changes to settings
needed.
Thanks
David Bate
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Birkdale
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From: Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com>
Sent: 30 May 2018 09:47
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] unable to start motion after it worked for many weeks
On 30 May 2018 at 09:41, Dougie Nisbet <dou...@katsura.uk
<mailto:dou...@katsura.uk> > wrote:
Funnily enough I've just had this issue recently. On a new raspberry pi that
worked initially, then started giving 'failed to open camera' type messages. I
changed /dev/video0 to /dev/video1 in the motion.conf file as it was such a
quick thing to try. I've no idea why the device has changed since I use the
same config on all machines but as it was a quick and easy test/change I'm not
worrying about it.
You may not always get the same device path even on the same machine, there are
timing issues involved. To ensure it always works the same way you can use
udev rules to define the path for the device.
Colin
On 30/05/18 06:00, MrDave wrote:
Motion works off of device names and those are assigned from the kernel and can
change whenever the computer is rebooted. In the mail archives from years ago
I seem to recall someone indicating how to set up udev rules so that a
particular camera is always assigned to a specific device number (e.g.
/dev/video0 would always be the laptop cam and /dev/video1 would be an
external web cam etc) Without those rules which are set up outside of motion,
the camera that is assigned to a particular device can and will change if there
is more than one. One option of course is to just set up an additional thread
(as it was called in that old version) for each camera and just monitor both
cameras.
MrDave
On 5/29/2018 6:51 PM, jack bean wrote:
no. i still have the same version of motion installed as before, i just
reinstalled it using the same install version i had already to make sure, all
this input still does not answer my question. how do i make sure i am using the
external camera instead of the built in camera? does the log file indicate
anything wrong and if so what should i be looking at in the config file to
correct this? this is a serious issue. i have got to have a camera working
while i am gone due to some security issues in my home. i am trying to catch
someone attempting to break in. it was working fine before and now all of the
sudden it wont. i don't want to catch them walking past the laptop, if they
even do, it would be too late then and they might not even go in front of it, i
want to catch them trying to jimmy the door because they have already done that
unsuccessfully but they keep trying.
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Kinney Baughman <baughma...@gmail.com
<mailto:baughma...@gmail.com> > wrote:
Any chance you went from version 3.1 to 3.2?
The conf file changed considerably in that jump. Some changes continued
throughout the 3.2 branch.
http://lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/UpgradingFromOlderVersion
On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 2:48 PM, jack bean <jackiebean2...@gmail.com
<mailto:jackiebean2...@gmail.com> > wrote:
i had my share of hiccups starting it and getting it to record, until i just
started using sudo motion and then sudo killall motion to shut it down. it
recorded fine. i had dropbox linked to the record folder. the config file is
the same as it was when it worked, but now it will not work. motion starts, but
will not recors anything, no matter what i do, or how many times i jump up and
down in front of the camera. before it quit working it only took a bit of
movement to record video and stills. now it wont do anything. i also
reinstalled motion in synaptic.
here is the log file in case it has something i dont recognize as the issue.
[8831360] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:01:59] motion_startup: Using log type (ALL)
log level (NTC)
[8831360] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:01:59] become_daemon: Motion going to daemon
mode
[8831360] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:01:59] become_daemon: Created process id file
/var/run/motion/motion.pid. Process ID is 31776
[8831360] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:01:59] motion_startup: Motion running as
daemon process
[8831360] [NTC] [ENC] [May 26 13:01:59] ffmpeg_init: ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD
3685476 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3680357
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:01:59] main: Thread 1 is from
/home/stealth/.motion/motion.conf
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:01:59] main: Thread 1 is device: /dev/video1 input -1
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:01:59] main: Stream port 8081
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:01:59] main: Waiting for threads to finish, pid:
31776
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:01:59] httpd_run: motion-httpd testing : IPV4 addr:
127.0.0.1 port: 8080
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:01:59] httpd_run: motion-httpd Bound : IPV4 addr:
127.0.0.1 port: 8080
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:01:59] httpd_run: motion-httpd/3.2.12+git20140228
running, accepting connections
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:01:59] httpd_run: motion-httpd: waiting for data on
127.0.0.1 port TCP 8080
[1] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:01:59] motion_init: Thread 1 started , motion
detection Enabled
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] vid_v4lx_start: Using videodevice /dev/video1
and input -1
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_get_capability:
------------------------
cap.driver: "uvcvideo"
cap.card: "HP Webcam: HP Webcam"
cap.bus_info: "usb-0000:00:1d.7-5"
cap.capabilities=0x84200001
------------------------
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_get_capability: - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_get_capability: - STREAMING
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_select_input: name = "Camera 1", type
0x00000002, status 00000000
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_select_input: - CAMERA
[1] [WRN] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_select_input: Device doesn't support
VIDIOC_G_STD
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_set_pix_format: Config palette index 17
(YU12) doesn't work.
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_set_pix_format: Supported palettes:
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_set_pix_format: (0) YUYV (YUYV 4:2:2)
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_set_pix_format: 0 - YUYV 4:2:2
(compressed : 0) (0x56595559)
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_set_pix_format Selected palette YUYV
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_do_set_pix_format: Testing palette YUYV
(320x240)
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_do_set_pix_format: Using palette YUYV
(320x240) bytesperlines 640 sizeimage 153600 colorspace 00000008
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980900,
"Brightness", range -64,64
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_scan_controls: "Brightness", default
5, current 5
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980901,
"Contrast", range 0,95
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_scan_controls: "Contrast", default
30, current 30
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980902,
"Saturation", range 0,128
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_scan_controls: "Saturation", default
80, current 80
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980903,
"Hue", range -40,40
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_scan_controls: "Hue", default 0,
current 0
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980910,
"Gamma", range 72,500
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_scan_controls: "Gamma", default 120,
current 120
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980913,
"Gain", range 0,100
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] v4l2_scan_controls: "Gain", default 0,
current 0
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:01:59] vid_v4lx_start: Using V4L2
[1] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:01:59] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture
buffer to 1 items
[1] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:02:00] http_bindsock: motion-stream testing : IPV4
addr: 127.0.0.1 port: 8081
[1] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:02:00] http_bindsock: motion-stream Bound : IPV4
addr: 127.0.0.1 port: 8081
[1] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:02:00] motion_init: Started motion-stream server in
port 8081 auth Disabled
[1] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:05:05] motion_loop: End of event 1
[1] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:05:05] motion_loop: Thread exiting
[1] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:05:05] stream_stop: Closing motion-stream listen
socket & active motion-stream sockets
[1] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:05:05] stream_stop: Closed motion-stream listen
socket & active motion-stream sockets
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:05:05] vid_close: Closing video device /dev/video1
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:05:05] main: Threads finished
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:05:05] httpd_run: motion-httpd - Finishing
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:05:05] httpd_run: motion-httpd Closing
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:05:05] motion_web_control: motion-httpd thread exit
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:05:06] main: Motion terminating
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:05:06] motion_remove_pid: Removed process id file
(pid file).
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:05:06] motion_remove_pid: Closing logfile
(/var/log/motion/motion.log).
[10338688] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:18:48] motion_startup: Using log type (ALL)
log level (NTC)
[10338688] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:18:48] become_daemon: Motion going to daemon
mode
[10338688] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:18:48] become_daemon: Created process id file
/var/run/motion/motion.pid. Process ID is 1746
[10338688] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:18:48] motion_startup: Motion running as
daemon process
[10338688] [NTC] [ENC] [May 26 13:18:48] ffmpeg_init: ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD
3685476 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3680357
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:18:48] main: Thread 1 is from
/home/stealth/.motion/motion.conf
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:18:48] main: Thread 1 is device: /dev/video1 input -1
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:18:48] main: Stream port 8081
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:18:48] main: Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 1746
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:18:48] httpd_run: motion-httpd testing : IPV4 addr:
127.0.0.1 port: 8080
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:18:48] httpd_run: motion-httpd Bound : IPV4 addr:
127.0.0.1 port: 8080
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:18:48] httpd_run: motion-httpd/3.2.12+git20140228
running, accepting connections
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:18:48] httpd_run: motion-httpd: waiting for data on
127.0.0.1 port TCP 8080
[1] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:18:48] motion_init: Thread 1 started , motion
detection Enabled
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] vid_v4lx_start: Using videodevice /dev/video1
and input -1
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_get_capability:
------------------------
cap.driver: "uvcvideo"
cap.card: "HP Webcam: HP Webcam"
cap.bus_info: "usb-0000:00:1d.7-5"
cap.capabilities=0x84200001
------------------------
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_get_capability: - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_get_capability: - STREAMING
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_select_input: name = "Camera 1", type
0x00000002, status 00000000
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_select_input: - CAMERA
[1] [WRN] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_select_input: Device doesn't support
VIDIOC_G_STD
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_set_pix_format: Config palette index 17
(YU12) doesn't work.
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_set_pix_format: Supported palettes:
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_set_pix_format: (0) YUYV (YUYV 4:2:2)
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_set_pix_format: 0 - YUYV 4:2:2
(compressed : 0) (0x56595559)
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_set_pix_format Selected palette YUYV
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_do_set_pix_format: Testing palette YUYV
(320x240)
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_do_set_pix_format: Using palette YUYV
(320x240) bytesperlines 640 sizeimage 153600 colorspace 00000008
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980900,
"Brightness", range -64,64
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_scan_controls: "Brightness", default
5, current 5
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980901,
"Contrast", range 0,95
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_scan_controls: "Contrast", default
30, current 30
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980902,
"Saturation", range 0,128
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_scan_controls: "Saturation", default
80, current 80
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980903,
"Hue", range -40,40
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_scan_controls: "Hue", default 0,
current 0
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980910,
"Gamma", range 72,500
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_scan_controls: "Gamma", default 120,
current 120
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980913,
"Gain", range 0,100
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] v4l2_scan_controls: "Gain", default 0,
current 0
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:18:48] vid_v4lx_start: Using V4L2
[1] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:18:48] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture
buffer to 1 items
[1] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:18:49] http_bindsock: motion-stream testing : IPV4
addr: 127.0.0.1 port: 8081
[1] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:18:49] http_bindsock: motion-stream Bound : IPV4
addr: 127.0.0.1 port: 8081
[1] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:18:49] motion_init: Started motion-stream server in
port 8081 auth Disabled
[1] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:21:07] motion_loop: End of event 1
[1] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:21:07] motion_loop: Thread exiting
[1] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:21:07] stream_stop: Closing motion-stream listen
socket & active motion-stream sockets
[1] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:21:07] stream_stop: Closed motion-stream listen
socket & active motion-stream sockets
[1] [NTC] [VID] [May 26 13:21:07] vid_close: Closing video device /dev/video1
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:21:07] main: Threads finished
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:21:07] httpd_run: motion-httpd - Finishing
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:21:07] httpd_run: motion-httpd Closing
[0] [NTC] [STR] [May 26 13:21:07] motion_web_control: motion-httpd thread exit
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:21:08] main: Motion terminating
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:21:08] motion_remove_pid: Removed process id file
(pid file).
[0] [NTC] [ALL] [May 26 13:21:08] motion_remove_pid: Closing logfile
(/var/log/motion/motion.log).
where it says devices, it indicates it is trying to use the internal webcam
instead of the external one, but why did it revert to that when i specifically
changed it in the config file?
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