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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Repurposing Android phones as cameras (jmb)
2. Re: Repurposing Android phones as cameras (tosiara)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:52:08 -0500
From: jmb <[email protected]>
To: tosiara <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Repurposing Android phones as cameras
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hello Tosiara,
Thank you very much for replying so speedily!? All 3 work with ffplay using:
? ? a) ffplay http://192.168.1.2XX:8080/video
? ? b) ffplay http://192.168.1.2YY:8080/video
? ? c) ffplay http://192.168.1.2ZZ:8080/video
Motion streams the video perfectly from:
? ? a) http://192.168.1.100:8081/2XX/stream
? ? b) http://192.168.1.100:8081/2YY/stream
but the same motion instance does not from:
? ? c) http://192.168.1.100:8081/2ZZ/stream
(all 3 being IPWebCam sources for the same server at 192.168.1.100, when
browsing server via http://localhost:8000/)
CLARIFICATION:
? ? needed in my previous email a) and b) WORK; c) does NOT; in the
motion video display (multi or single).
Your help is much appreciated!? Thank you.
JMB
On 12/24/25 04:35, tosiara wrote:
> 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 (streams the video perfectly) 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 20:01:14 +0200
From: tosiara <[email protected]>
To: jmb <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Repurposing Android phones as cameras
Message-ID:
<cachtdwqadwtgbzz115cmzhf_cogarhg9p+yngt7ezfwrsv1...@mail.gmail.com>
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Can you add console output of a working ffplay and not working motion
of the same camera?
So I can see the same url is being used in both cases
On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 2:52?PM jmb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Tosiara,
>
> Thank you very much for replying so speedily! All 3 work with ffplay using:
> a) ffplay http://192.168.1.2XX:8080/video
> b) ffplay http://192.168.1.2YY:8080/video
> c) ffplay http://192.168.1.2ZZ:8080/video
> Motion streams the video perfectly from:
> a) http://192.168.1.100:8081/2XX/stream
> b) http://192.168.1.100:8081/2YY/stream
> but the same motion instance does not from:
> c) http://192.168.1.100:8081/2ZZ/stream
> (all 3 being IPWebCam sources for the same server at 192.168.1.100, when
> browsing server via http://localhost:8000/)
>
> CLARIFICATION:
> needed in my previous email a) and b) WORK; c) does NOT; in the
> motion video display (multi or single).
>
> Your help is much appreciated! Thank you.
> JMB
>
> On 12/24/25 04:35, tosiara wrote:
> > 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 (streams the video perfectly) 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
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Motion-user mailing list
> >> [email protected]
> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
> >> https://motion-project.github.io/
> >>
> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/motion-user
>
>
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