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Today's Topics:
1. Motion on macOS (Mac mini 2023) (Dougie Nisbet)
2. Re: Motion on macOS (Mac mini 2023) (MrDave)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:00:07 +0100
From: Dougie Nisbet <dou...@katsura.uk>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Motion-user] Motion on macOS (Mac mini 2023)
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I?m trying to get motion running on a Mac and I think I?m close. Downloaded and
installed according to the documentation and looks ok:
Hardware is a Mac mini 2023 running Ventura 13.2.1
Motion is:
dill:~ dougie$ motion -h
motion Version 4.5.1+git20230125-ab0a463, Copyright 2000-2021 Jeroen
Vreeken/Folkert van Heusden/Kenneth Lavrsen/Motion-Project maintainers
I?ve tried to mimic the installs I have on my raspberry pi?s as much as
possible although of course the hardware is quite different. I?m using a simple
Logitech USB camera which I can get working with FaceTime. System Information
reports:
HD Webcam C615:
Model ID: UVC Camera VendorID_1133 ProductID_2092
Unique ID: 0x2400000046d082c
I think my problem is I?ve no idea what device to specify in the config file.
Normally for the rpis, module or USB, it?s /dev/video0. What should I put for
the Mac? Thanks for any pointers.
Extract from log file:
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] main: Motion thread 1 restart
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0 is from
/Users/dougie/.motion/motion.conf
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0 Camera
Name: office Device: /dev/video0
[1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] motion_init: Camera 0 started:
motion detection Enabled
[1:ml1:office] [ERR] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] init_camera_type: Unable to
determine camera type (MMAL, Netcam, V4L2, BKTR)
[1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] motion_loop: Thread exiting
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] main: Motion thread 1 restart
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0 is from
/Users/dougie/.motion/motion.conf
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0 Camera Name
: office Device: /dev/video0
[1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] motion_init: Camera 0 started:
motion detection Enabled
[1:ml1:office] [ERR] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] init_camera_type: Unable to
determine camera type (MMAL, Netcam, V4L2, BKTR)
[1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] motion_loop: Thread exiting
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] main: Motion thread 1 restart
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0 is from
/Users/dougie/.motion/motion.conf
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0 Camera
Name: office Device: /dev/video0
[1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] motion_init: Camera 0 started:
motion detection Enabled
[1:ml1:office] [ERR] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] init_camera_type: Unable to
determine camera type (MMAL, Netcam, V4L2, BKTR)
[1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] motion_loop: Thread exiting
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] sig_handler: Received signal 2.
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] main: Threads finished
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] main: Motion terminating
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] motion_remove_pid: Removed process id file
(pid file).
[0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] motion_remove_pid: Closing logfile
(/Users/dougie/log/motion.log).
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 10:05:00 -0600
From: MrDave <motionmrd...@gmail.com>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Motion on macOS (Mac mini 2023)
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Well, the following shouldn't surprise you......Apple does its own thing..
To my knowledge, Apple was based upon BSD and that distro did not
historically support v4l2.? Instead I seem to recall that Apple created
its own proprietary variant called AVFoundation for webcams.? That
"framework" isn't v4l2 so it won't be supported by a /dev/video device.
I do recall that it was somehow put into ffmpeg so in theory, you could
re-write Motion to read it in like what Motion does with the v4l2 device
via the netcam_url option...Or try to write an ffmpeg script that reads
the AVFoundation device and then streams it to a local port and then set
up Motion to use the local address as the netcam_url
Bottom line is that it isn't straight forward or even generally possible
for webcams.? Only netcams are supported on Mac's..
On 3/26/2023 7:00 AM, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> I?m trying to get motion running on a Mac and I think I?m close.
> Downloaded and installed according to the documentation and looks ok:
>
> Hardware is a Mac mini 2023 running Ventura 13.2.1
>
> Motion is:
>
> dill:~ dougie$ motion -h
>
> motion Version 4.5.1+git20230125-ab0a463, Copyright 2000-2021 Jeroen
> Vreeken/Folkert van Heusden/Kenneth Lavrsen/Motion-Project maintainers
>
>
> I?ve tried to mimic the installs I have on my raspberry pi?s as much
> as possible although of course the hardware is quite different. I?m
> using a simple Logitech USB camera which I can get working with
> FaceTime. System Information reports:
>
>
> *HD Webcam C615:*
>
>
> ? Model ID:UVC Camera VendorID_1133 ProductID_2092
>
> ? Unique ID:0x2400000046d082c
>
>
> I think my problem is I?ve no idea what device to specify in the
> config file. Normally for the rpis, module or USB, it?s /dev/video0.
> What should I put for the Mac? Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Extract from log file:
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] main: Motion thread 1 restart
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0
> is from /Users/dougie/.motion/motion.conf
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0
> Camera Name: office Device: /dev/video0
>
> [1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] motion_init: Camera 0
> started: motion detection Enabled
>
> [1:ml1:office] [ERR] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] init_camera_type: Unable
> to determine camera type (MMAL, Netcam, V4L2, BKTR)
>
> [1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] motion_loop: Thread exiting
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] main: Motion thread 1 restart
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0
> is from /Users/dougie/.motion/motion.conf
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0
> Camera Name
>
> : office Device: /dev/video0
>
> [1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] motion_init: Camera 0
> started: motion detection Enabled
>
> [1:ml1:office] [ERR] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] init_camera_type: Unable
> to determine camera type (MMAL, Netcam, V4L2, BKTR)
>
> [1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] motion_loop: Thread exiting
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] main: Motion thread 1 restart
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0
> is from /Users/dougie/.motion/motion.conf
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0
> Camera Name: office Device: /dev/video0
>
> [1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] motion_init: Camera 0
> started: motion detection Enabled
>
> [1:ml1:office] [ERR] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] init_camera_type: Unable
> to determine camera type (MMAL, Netcam, V4L2, BKTR)
>
> [1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] motion_loop: Thread exiting
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] sig_handler: Received signal 2.
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] main: Threads finished
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] main: Motion terminating
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] motion_remove_pid: Removed process
> id file (pid file).
>
> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] motion_remove_pid: Closing logfile
> (/Users/dougie/log/motion.log).
>
>
>
>
>
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