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Today's Topics:
1. Re: remote usb webcam (folkert)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 13:12:12 +0200
From: folkert <folk...@vanheusden.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] remote usb webcam
Message-ID: <20200806111211.gx7...@belle.intranet.vanheusden.com>
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You could run constatus on that other system and let it export that USB
camera as an MJPEG stream ( https://vanheusden.com/constatus/ ).
Motion can then pick it up via netcam_url and do with it whatever you
require.
e.g. constatus configuration:
logfile = "camera.log";
log-level = "info";
instances = (
{
instance-name = "some usb cam";
source = {
id = "1-1";
descr = "my usb camera cam";
type = "v4l";
device = "/dev/video0";
# resolution of your camera
width = 1280;
height = 720;
max-fps = -1.0;
prefer-jpeg = true;
}
}
)
global-http-server = ({
id = "2-1";
descr = "http interface";
listen-adapter = "0.0.0.0";
listen-port = 8080;
# here I limit the output to 15fps
# set to -1.0 for same fps as source
fps = 15.0;
quality = 75;
stylesheet = "stylesheet.css";
})
the url would then be:
http://my-ip-adres:8080/stream.mjpeg?inst=some%20usb%20cam
e.g.:
netcam_url http://my-ip-adres:8080/stream.mjpeg?inst=some%20usb%20cam
On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 04:24:25AM -0400, fugee ohu wrote:
> I wanna use a usb webcam on a remote machine Which directive to use
> I'm thinking I should use the netcam_url and the netcam_userpass
> directives Although the camera doesn't require a username and
> password, the remote machine does
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