On 12/15/2011 10:24 PM, AJ ONeal wrote: >> >> Wow you are dedicated, I'll grant you that. Seems like more work >> than it's worth, especially since motion or zoneminder could quite >> easily catch the next day of Christmas for you. Motion really >> isn't hard to use at all. > > > Hey, If you wouldn't mind pointing me towards some simple examples of > how to use motion, I'd love to check it out, but with a name like > `motion`... it's hard to find anything other than the terse man > pages.
If you add "gnu" to the search it helps (though it's really not gnu!). Or fsf, or gpl. The man page is your source though. Basically I started from the example config file that comes with motion. I've attached the file that I've been using. The motion.conf example file is very well commented, so you should be up and running quite soon. I believe my instance of motion logged just jpeg images to /var/motion. It can create avi files of the motion sequences though. Also my config file had a mask defined in it mask a portion of the view out of the motion detection algorithm.
motion.conf
Description: application/extension-conf
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