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Today's Topics:
1. I need help changing where files are saved (Josh Newman)
2. Re: I need help changing where files are saved (Thomas Drebert)
3. Re: I need help changing where files are saved (Thomas Drebert)
4. Re: I need help changing where files are saved (Josh Newman)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:08:15 -0800
From: Josh Newman <jnewm...@gmail.com>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Motion-user] I need help changing where files are saved
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Hello,
I'm hoping someone can help me figure this out. I'm trying to change where
video and photos are saved when using Motion and MotionEyeOS. I'm using
Motion version 4.2.2 and MotionEyeOS version 0.41.
My current setup is 2 Raspberry Pi4 with V4L2 cameras. I have Motion
version 4.2.2 and MotionEye version 0.41 on a pc running Ubunto 18.04. I
configured and installed everything according to the wiki installation,
https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki/Installation
Everything is working as it should be I just have no idea how to change
where the files are saved. I have seen some stuff in the forums and online
talking about the motion.conf file, but I don't really understand what it
is talking about. I'm very new to Linux and I'm not comfortable with the
file naming conventions. Currently the cameras are set to record to "Custom
Path" /data/output/Camera1 when I click on the storage device drop down I
get 3 options, Custom Path, Network Shares and Y016B 0xda66bb60
(/dev/mmcblk0p3) and SL16G 0x119cb850 (/dev/mmcblk0p3) respectively. I
would like them to save to the internal 1TB hard drive I have installed
specifically for this purpose, it doesn't have the OS on it. It appears the
hard drive has a name of /dev/sdb1
I'm hoping someone can explain to me how to change this, it would be
greatly appreciated.
Josh
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 23:48:15 +0100
From: Thomas Drebert <dreb...@web.de>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] I need help changing where files are saved
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Hello,
I don't know the exact process at motioneye, but motion store the
config in the file motion.conf
There you can put the variable
target_dir /your/path/
to store your files.
Is there no variable motion use a default value.
regards
ThomasD
Am Do., 19. Dez. 2019 um 23:29 Uhr schrieb Josh Newman <jnewm...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hello,
> I'm hoping someone can help me figure this out. I'm trying to change where
> video and photos are saved when using Motion and MotionEyeOS. I'm using
> Motion version 4.2.2 and MotionEyeOS version 0.41.
> My current setup is 2 Raspberry Pi4 with V4L2 cameras. I have Motion version
> 4.2.2 and MotionEye version 0.41 on a pc running Ubunto 18.04. I configured
> and installed everything according to the wiki installation,
> https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki/Installation
> Everything is working as it should be I just have no idea how to change where
> the files are saved. I have seen some stuff in the forums and online talking
> about the motion.conf file, but I don't really understand what it is talking
> about. I'm very new to Linux and I'm not comfortable with the file naming
> conventions. Currently the cameras are set to record to "Custom Path"
> /data/output/Camera1 when I click on the storage device drop down I get 3
> options, Custom Path, Network Shares and Y016B 0xda66bb60 (/dev/mmcblk0p3)
> and SL16G 0x119cb850 (/dev/mmcblk0p3) respectively. I would like them to save
> to the internal 1TB hard drive I have installed specifically for this
> purpose, it doesn't have the OS on it. It appears the hard drive has a name
> of /dev/sdb1
> I'm hoping someone can explain to me how to change this, it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Josh
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 23:58:01 +0100
From: Thomas Drebert <dreb...@web.de>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] I need help changing where files are saved
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Hello Again,
i see you can set a custom path, I think this path must also exist.
Your path is a path from root "/".
Root is like c:\data\output\Camera1\ on Windows.
I think you can use this path, but you must create it and give motion
or motioneye access rights to this directory.
regards
Thomasd
Am Do., 19. Dez. 2019 um 23:29 Uhr schrieb Josh Newman <jnewm...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hello,
> I'm hoping someone can help me figure this out. I'm trying to change where
> video and photos are saved when using Motion and MotionEyeOS. I'm using
> Motion version 4.2.2 and MotionEyeOS version 0.41.
> My current setup is 2 Raspberry Pi4 with V4L2 cameras. I have Motion version
> 4.2.2 and MotionEye version 0.41 on a pc running Ubunto 18.04. I configured
> and installed everything according to the wiki installation,
> https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki/Installation
> Everything is working as it should be I just have no idea how to change where
> the files are saved. I have seen some stuff in the forums and online talking
> about the motion.conf file, but I don't really understand what it is talking
> about. I'm very new to Linux and I'm not comfortable with the file naming
> conventions. Currently the cameras are set to record to "Custom Path"
> /data/output/Camera1 when I click on the storage device drop down I get 3
> options, Custom Path, Network Shares and Y016B 0xda66bb60 (/dev/mmcblk0p3)
> and SL16G 0x119cb850 (/dev/mmcblk0p3) respectively. I would like them to save
> to the internal 1TB hard drive I have installed specifically for this
> purpose, it doesn't have the OS on it. It appears the hard drive has a name
> of /dev/sdb1
> I'm hoping someone can explain to me how to change this, it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Josh
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:10:13 -0800
From: Josh Newman <jnewm...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>,
dreb...@web.de
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] I need help changing where files are saved
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Thomas,
Thanks for responding. Motioneye does have a .conf file where it is
specified where files are saved. So if I'm understanding your response, I
need to change the .conf file to direct it to save where I want it to go,
is that correct? To follow up with your response, how do I give it access
rights? What would the path look like if I wanted it to change to save to
my internal hard drive? According to the installation instructions these
are the steps I followed to create directories and change the .conf file
when I installed this on my pc running Ubuntu 18.04 to act as my server,
but I just copied and pasted, as I don't really understand Linux file
systems. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Thomas
1.
Prepare the configuration directory:
mkdir -p /etc/motioneye
cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample
/etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf
2.
Prepare the media directory:
mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 3:21 PM Thomas Drebert <dreb...@web.de> wrote:
> Hello Again,
>
> i see you can set a custom path, I think this path must also exist.
> Your path is a path from root "/".
> Root is like c:\data\output\Camera1\ on Windows.
> I think you can use this path, but you must create it and give motion
> or motioneye access rights to this directory.
>
> regards
> Thomasd
>
> Am Do., 19. Dez. 2019 um 23:29 Uhr schrieb Josh Newman <jnewm...@gmail.com
> >:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I'm hoping someone can help me figure this out. I'm trying to change
> where video and photos are saved when using Motion and MotionEyeOS. I'm
> using Motion version 4.2.2 and MotionEyeOS version 0.41.
> > My current setup is 2 Raspberry Pi4 with V4L2 cameras. I have Motion
> version 4.2.2 and MotionEye version 0.41 on a pc running Ubunto 18.04. I
> configured and installed everything according to the wiki installation,
> https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki/Installation
> > Everything is working as it should be I just have no idea how to change
> where the files are saved. I have seen some stuff in the forums and online
> talking about the motion.conf file, but I don't really understand what it
> is talking about. I'm very new to Linux and I'm not comfortable with the
> file naming conventions. Currently the cameras are set to record to "Custom
> Path" /data/output/Camera1 when I click on the storage device drop down I
> get 3 options, Custom Path, Network Shares and Y016B 0xda66bb60
> (/dev/mmcblk0p3) and SL16G 0x119cb850 (/dev/mmcblk0p3) respectively. I
> would like them to save to the internal 1TB hard drive I have installed
> specifically for this purpose, it doesn't have the OS on it. It appears the
> hard drive has a name of /dev/sdb1
> > I'm hoping someone can explain to me how to change this, it would be
> greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Josh
> > _______________________________________________
> > Motion-user mailing list
> > Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
> > https://motion-project.github.io/
> >
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>
>
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