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Today's Topics:
1. Repurposing Android phones as cameras (jmb)
2. Re: Repurposing Android phones as cameras (tosiara)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:13:31 -0500
From: jmb <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Motion-user] Repurposing Android phones as cameras
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hello,
I have been using motion software for more than 2 decades. Wonderful
software that I have found it to be.
I am currently using:
Version 4.7.1(C)2000-24 J.Vreeken/F.Heusden/K.Lavrsen/Project team
... where motion is running on a server at 192.168.1.100 under Ubuntu
24.04 and acquiring its video from older (repurposed) Android phones. I
am trying to make it work with the following older Android phones (as IP
cameras) that are running Pavel Klebovich's IPWebCam app.
What I am finding:
a) Android 5.1.1 MotoE2 -WORKS
with ONVIF support enabled in IPWebCam
Brave-browser http://192.168.1.2XX:8080/video (video works)
Motion (streams the video perfectly) from
http://192.168.1.100:8081/2XX/stream
b) Android 4.0.4 Kyocera -WORKS
with ONVIF support enabled in IPWebCam
Brave-browser http://192.168.1.2YY:8081/video (video works)
Motion reports: "Unable to open video device, since ..." from
http://192.168.1.100:8081/2YY/stream
c) Android 2.2.2 LG -FAILS
ONVIF support NOT available in IPWebCam
Brave-browser http://192.168.1.2ZZ:8081/video (video works)
Motion reports: "Unable to open video device, since ..." from
http://192.168.1.100:8081/2ZZ/stream
It is the oldest Android 2.2.2 LG phone that's not working with motion.
Incidentally is is also the most reliable one for running IPWebCam !!!
QUESTIONS:
Could it be because ONVIF is unavailable in IPWebCam version of the
oldest OS -Android 2.2.2? I realize the differences could be the
versions of IPWebCam apps between the 3 Android OSes. But my question
is whether I can somehow overcome the limitations of the oldest Android
OS and or IPWebCam app available for it? Are there any motion software
configuration settings I could tweak?
SIDE NOTE:
Am also running motion on various generations of RPi quite reliably!
REQUEST:
Any help would be much appreciated, for keeping older hardware useful
and less destined to the landfills. Thanks.
JMB
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:35:30 +0200
From: tosiara <[email protected]>
To: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Repurposing Android phones as cameras
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You should find the correct stream url not by using Browser, but using
"ffplay" command. Then it will work with also motion. If a url works
with ffplay, but does not work with motion - let us know
On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 10:15?PM jmb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been using motion software for more than 2 decades. Wonderful
> software that I have found it to be.
>
> I am currently using:
> Version 4.7.1(C)2000-24 J.Vreeken/F.Heusden/K.Lavrsen/Project team
> ... where motion is running on a server at 192.168.1.100 under Ubuntu
> 24.04 and acquiring its video from older (repurposed) Android phones. I
> am trying to make it work with the following older Android phones (as IP
> cameras) that are running Pavel Klebovich's IPWebCam app.
>
> What I am finding:
> a) Android 5.1.1 MotoE2 -WORKS
> with ONVIF support enabled in IPWebCam
> Brave-browser http://192.168.1.2XX:8080/video (video works)
> Motion (streams the video perfectly) from
> http://192.168.1.100:8081/2XX/stream
> b) Android 4.0.4 Kyocera -WORKS
> with ONVIF support enabled in IPWebCam
> Brave-browser http://192.168.1.2YY:8081/video (video works)
> Motion reports: "Unable to open video device, since ..." from
> http://192.168.1.100:8081/2YY/stream
> c) Android 2.2.2 LG -FAILS
> ONVIF support NOT available in IPWebCam
> Brave-browser http://192.168.1.2ZZ:8081/video (video works)
> Motion reports: "Unable to open video device, since ..." from
> http://192.168.1.100:8081/2ZZ/stream
> It is the oldest Android 2.2.2 LG phone that's not working with motion.
> Incidentally is is also the most reliable one for running IPWebCam !!!
>
> QUESTIONS:
> Could it be because ONVIF is unavailable in IPWebCam version of the
> oldest OS -Android 2.2.2? I realize the differences could be the
> versions of IPWebCam apps between the 3 Android OSes. But my question
> is whether I can somehow overcome the limitations of the oldest Android
> OS and or IPWebCam app available for it? Are there any motion software
> configuration settings I could tweak?
>
> SIDE NOTE:
> Am also running motion on various generations of RPi quite reliably!
>
> REQUEST:
> Any help would be much appreciated, for keeping older hardware useful
> and less destined to the landfills. Thanks.
>
> JMB
>
>
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