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Today's Topics:
1. Latest motion on Raspberry PI 4 (Matt Grob)
2. Re: can Motion be run without using sudo (Dougie Nisbet)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00:33 -0700
From: Matt Grob <mg...@grobfamily.org>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Motion-user] Latest motion on Raspberry PI 4
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I just got a new Raspberry PI 4 - noticeably zippier than previous.
When I do apt-get install motion on Raspian, it installs motion 4.1.1 (which is
from December 2017). The motion release notes list many improvements since
then up through 4.2.2.
It is possible to run a new version on Raspberry PI? I'd rather not
completely build from source to do that, but seems possible to make a deb
package and install that.
Is it worth doing? Anyone out there tried to run a newer-than-4.1.1 version on
RPI?
thanks
Matt
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:02:59 +0100
From: Dougie Nisbet <dou...@katsura.uk>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] can Motion be run without using sudo
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I always run motion as myself (dougie) on raspberry pis and anything
else. It should be just a matter of creating? a local configuration file
in ~pi/.motion and tweaking the relevant entries in the config file. I
recall sometimes having a permissions problem with the video device
files and when I google for it I invariably find my own note-to-self
blog entry on how I fixed it!
https://www.katsura.uk/2017/02/17/permissions-on-devvideo0-running-motion-on-raspberry-pi/
Dougie
On 15/07/2019 04:48, Ted Romer wrote:
> I upgraded one of my systems and I am trying to see if I can run Motion
> without sudo. I have a Pi Zero W with Buster Lite and Motion 4.1.1. I have
> been starting Motion on my systems with sudo but I would like to see if I can
> get it to run without sudo. My user account is pi. If I try to run Motion as
> pi it fails out due to lack of permission to write to
> /var/log/motion/motion.log and also cannot create the pid file. If I try to
> get Motion to start as a service I get file permissions errors on
> /var/log/motion/motion.log. When I start motion with sudo, my jpg and video
> files are created with root as the owner. I am having the files saved in a
> directory in pi?s home directory.
>
> I have been searching for information pertaining to how to configure and deal
> with the permissions issues but have not found a solution. Is there a way to
> do it without sudo?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ted
>
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