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Today's Topics:
1. Basic questions running motion on Pi (Mick Sulley)
2. Re: Basic questions running motion on Pi (MrDave)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 21:12:39 +0100
From: Mick Sulley <m...@sulley.info>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Motion-user] Basic questions running motion on Pi
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Just trying to test out motion.? Can I ask a basic question to start -
Hardware - Pi4 running headless with a Pi v3 camera module? OS - bookworm
I want to use motion to record video on motion detection, record the
whole screen but with a restricted area for the detection (to avoid
swaying trees and traffic in the background)
I then want to view the live picture and the recorded video on my
desktop (running Linux mint)
Is this possible with motion?? I have looked for documentation and found
some stuff but nothing telling me how to define a Pi camera.? Am I
looking in the wrong place?
Thanks
Mick
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:28:08 -0600
From: MrDave <motionmrd...@gmail.com>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Basic questions running motion on Pi
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For Motion you must use a 'helper' application called 'libcamerify' and
run motion as
libcamerify motion
Doing it this way the Pi camera presents itself as a v4l2 device but
without any ability to adjust the camera parameters.? (As far as I've
been able to determine).? Movies can be created and as required copied
via a script (that you'd have to write) into a location (network share?)
that can be accessed via the desktop via a file manager.
If you need to adjust the camera parameters or wish to access the
recorded movies via a web page, you can try Motionplus.? In it, you can
specify the PI camera a different device (libcam_device) and specify
parameters for the camera (libcam_params).? On the web page, it will
also illustrate the recorded movies and allow for download from there.
Either one has the option to remove detection areas via the "mask_file"
option and provide a web page where the live view can be seen.
On 6/20/2024 2:12 PM, Mick Sulley wrote:
> Just trying to test out motion.? Can I ask a basic question to start -
>
> Hardware - Pi4 running headless with a Pi v3 camera module? OS - bookworm
>
> I want to use motion to record video on motion detection, record the
> whole screen but with a restricted area for the detection (to avoid
> swaying trees and traffic in the background)
>
> I then want to view the live picture and the recorded video on my
> desktop (running Linux mint)
>
> Is this possible with motion?? I have looked for documentation and found
> some stuff but nothing telling me how to define a Pi camera.? Am I
> looking in the wrong place?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mick
>
>
>
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