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I have recently get to set up motion with my RPi but I have a problem which is simple one one hand, but, on the other, can’t find any step-by-step instructions to remedy it.

Although I have successfully set up motion and works, after I've made all the necessary tweaks to run it in daemon (edited etc/default/motion & etc/motion/motion.conf), I still can’t get it to start in daemon mode. That said, with every restart of the Pi. I have to manually start the script by “sudo service motion start” or "sudo motion". I know it is an issue with permissions that motion needs to start in daemon but as a complete newbie in the PiWorld, I would appreciate if anyone could guide me through to the 2-3 necessary commands to fix it.

Steve Robillard
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To enable motion to run as a daemon on startup do the following:

Edit /etc/default/motion

and change start_motion_daemon=no to start_motion_daemon=yes

Next enable motion by entering the following at the command line: 

sudo systemctl enable motion

Finally reboot.

You can confirm motion is running by checking the output from the following command:

sudo service motion status
Steve Robillard
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Confirmed for stretch (v9) as well.

you can also use 

$ ps -ef | grep motion

to see if motion is running

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