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To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to motion-user-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net You can reach the person managing the list at motion-user-ow...@lists.sourceforge.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Motion-user digest..." Today's Topics: 1. What .conf parameters support '%t' notation, possible feature request... (Z4) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 17:15:55 -0700 From: Z4 <z...@z2zcorp.com> To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Motion-user] What .conf parameters support '%t' notation, possible feature request... Message-ID: <a0296369-1376-9271-ffe3-0df66759a...@z2zcorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Wouldn't it be nice to simply be able to 'cp camera1.conf camera2.conf' and if they had these settings, no further edits would be necessary: camera_id = %t stream_port 'X + %t' # or equivalent netcam_url rtsp://camera%t/some_path... then the dynamic %t parameter would take care of differences between the files, and assuming that the /etc/motion/conf.d/ directory were read in a consistent order (alphabetical?),then no edits would be necessary to any of the cameraX.conf files. Its a minor convenience issue, but adding/removing cameras would be more streamlined for cases where there are multiple cameras of the same type. I know the camera_id parameter already supports %t, but I see '.../camera2.conf' being read before '.../camera1.conf', so that's a bit unexpected. Otherwise, the code is already present, just may need to be implemented for a few more parameters. Can this be done already? If not, maybe one of the devs. here could point me at the file/directory to start with and I'll make the changes and provide a patch. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Motion-user mailing list Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user ------------------------------ End of Motion-user Digest, Vol 158, Issue 29 ********************************************