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A free open source software motion detector for CCTV software applications developed for Linux.

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RasPi Camera Board and Motion

I just got my Camera Board and a Model A Raspberry Pi to use as a security camera for my house. I had been using Motion with a Logitech C170 USB camera on my Model B board and it worked great except for the quality. I was expecting the Raspberry Pi…
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Motion-daemon: /var/log/motion/motion.log permission denied

I have installed the motion package on my pi (stretch). If I start motion in the foreground it's working but when I try to start it as a daemon it fails with the following log message: motion: permission denied for /var/log/motion/motion.log I've…
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How to start Motion in daemon mode on RPi running Raspbian Jessie

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…
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Take picam image while motion is running

I am running motion on my raspberry pi using the V4L2 driver. While motion is running, I can't take a snapshot using raspistill. Is is possible to take a snapshot of the virtual V4L2 device using another tool while motion is running? I guess…
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How can I use my Raspberry Pi for motion detection and SMS?

I'm just starting out. How could I use my Raspberry Pi to do the following: when any movement is detected at my front door, send me a text message (SMS)?
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"Failed to open video device /dev/video0 no such file or directory" with normal working usb camera in motion

I have a normal usb 2.0 cam. Connecting it to my pc, it works perfectly. It is not working with my raspberry pi (2). I had installed motion and it had worked good before 2/3 weeks when I tried it but now, it says [1] Retrying until successful…
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auto brightness bypass whilst using Motion

Can I change the metering mode, exposure and ISO of my Raspberry pi noir camera whilst using the popular software Motion to detect, well, motion. I don't seem to be able to lighten the image whatever i change in the motion.conf file, so wondered if…
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Make RPi keep an semi-accurate time after power loss

I use Motion detection and a webcam as a security camera. It's headless with no internet or keyboard. To turn the camera off while it's not need I just turn the power supply off. Because I shut it down this way the time doesn't get saved onto the…
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how to motion detect on small resolution, save larger resolution: "motion"

This post on the raspi forums suggests that motion can use a small resolution feed from the raspi camera to perform motion detection and then save a larger resolution version of the frame in question. The purpose of this maneuver would be to keep…
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Unable to open video device

I just installed motion on my Raspberry Pi 3 with the Raspbian distro, the software seems to work fine. However, I can't see any image from the local camera. I checked the log of motion and this is the content: this is the result that I get in…
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Protect my motion webcam stream with a password (motion.conf)

I set up a webcam server using motion. The video is correctly streamed to Internet. Now I would like to protect the stream with a password: I don't want unknown people to spy on me! I don't know how to do this. In motion.conf, there are…
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Motion filming can't get on real speed

I'm trying to film with my PI B+ with motion. I'm using the RPi camera board (so no USB), and got that working (which is nice). The thing is, is that the recorded video is not real time. What I mean is that you see all the images behind each other…
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Stream video from raspberry pi via a Ubuntu server

I have a ubuntu server running on a network which is visible outside to the internet. My question is, is there a way to stream the video from the raspberry pi to my Ubuntu server and from there to any Web client on the internet? I have seen ways…
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unable to open video device and grey screen

I'm having problems with Motion's live stream going grey and saying unable to open video device. I can get my live stream working by rebooting my PI and, following a reboot, entering the command sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2 (only with the command…
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Live video streaming embedded in a web page

I have created a web page to have both live video streaming and some button controls to control the robotic arm interfaced to the RPi GPIO pins. For button controls, I used php coding. The php coding is given here. Using motion s/w, I am able to get…
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