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Today's Topics:
1. Re: How to record a video (Harlan Daneker)
2. Re: How to record a video (Mick Sulley)
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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 07:11:49 -0400
From: Harlan Daneker <hdane...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] How to record a video
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Do you have FFmpeg installed?
On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 6:02?AM Mick Sulley <m...@sulley.info> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Running motionplus, but I do have "movie_output on"
>
> I have changed the target_dir in the Camera section to one in my home to
> prevent any permission problems, but still no videos
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Mick
>
>
> On 04/07/2024 10:07, chuck elliot wrote:
>
> You don't need a database. Look for
>
> movie_output <on/off>
>
> in motion.conf
>
> "on" should get you videos stored in the directory specified by
>
> target_dir </path/to//videos>
>
>
>
> On 03/07/2024 22:38, Mick Sulley wrote:
>
> I have installed MotionPlus on a Pi5 with bookworm with a single Pi v3
> camera. It is working, in that I can see the picture on a webpage on my
> desktop. How do I set it to record on motion detection? I read that it
> needs a database, so I added commands to create a sqlite3 database, but
> it didn't create it following a reboot.
>
> The log file showed that it couldn't create the database, don't know
> why, so I then manually created the database and rebooted again. The
> log now says that it cannot open the database.
>
> Questions
>
> Do I need a database in order to capture videos?
>
> Why does motionplus fail to open my database? I can open it from
> command line.
>
> How do I set motionplus to record on motion detection?
>
> I have attached my config and log files.
>
> Sorry if these are very basic questions but I cannot find the answers in
> the docs
>
> Mick
>
>
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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 12:59:57 +0100
From: Mick Sulley <m...@sulley.info>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] How to record a video
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Yes it is.
On 04/07/2024 12:11, Harlan Daneker wrote:
> Do you have FFmpeg installed?
>
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 6:02?AM Mick Sulley <m...@sulley.info> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Running motionplus, but I do have "movie_output on"
>
> I have changed the target_dir in the Camera section to one in my
> home? to prevent any permission problems, but still no videos
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Mick
>
>
> On 04/07/2024 10:07, chuck elliot wrote:
>>
>> You don't need a database. Look for
>>
>> movie_output <on/off>
>>
>> in motion.conf
>>
>> "on" should get you videos stored in the directory specified by
>>
>> target_dir </path/to//videos>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03/07/2024 22:38, Mick Sulley wrote:
>>> I have installed MotionPlus on a Pi5 with bookworm with a single
>>> Pi v3
>>> camera.? It is working, in that I can see the picture on a
>>> webpage on my
>>> desktop.? How do I set it to record on motion detection?? I read
>>> that it
>>> needs a database, so I added commands to create a sqlite3
>>> database, but
>>> it didn't create it following a reboot.
>>>
>>> The log file showed that it couldn't create the database, don't
>>> know
>>> why, so I then manually created the database and rebooted
>>> again.? The
>>> log now says that it cannot open the database.
>>>
>>> Questions
>>>
>>> Do I need a database in order to capture videos?
>>>
>>> Why does motionplus fail to open my database?? I can open it from
>>> command line.
>>>
>>> How? do I set motionplus to record on motion detection?
>>>
>>> I have attached my config and log files.
>>>
>>> Sorry if these are very basic questions but I cannot find the
>>> answers in
>>> the docs
>>>
>>> Mick
>>>
>>>
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