Pi Webcam - Pi Camera or USB

Image/Video location: /var/lib/motion Config files are under /etc/motion/motion.conf. This is the file you will need to edit using sudo or as root. References: https://lb.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=166287 https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Raspberry-Pi-Webcam-Server-and-Stream-/ Note: Once you are done you will want to add your user account (pi) to the motion group (motion) so you can delete pictures captured.. usermod -a -G motion pi

Everything in this snip should get you up and working. Snip --------------------------------------- Re: Pi Camera and Motion Quote Wed Nov 23, 2016 12:25 pm OMG It works. Simple in the end..... but see Pitfalls at the bottom. Thanks Mal for putting me on the right track Don't use Motion-MMAL as in many articles and posts. It is much simpler..... So for the poor others trying this, here is what I did and the pitfalls. first install the hardware Pi Camera enable it in the config Raspberry Pi Configuration in the GUI The first thing is motion can be used in its unmodified form. The trick to this is to get the PI camera to behave as a USB type webcam using the special add on module bcm2835-v4l2 first install motion in the straight forward way Code: Select all sudo apt-get install motion then the good news is that bcm2835-v4l2 is already on your system if you have the latest OS To start it type Code: Select all sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2 To check it is working type Code: Select all ls -l /dev/video* you should see something like this crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Nov 23 11:26 /dev/video0 next get the bcm2835-v4l2 to load at start up using Code: Select all sudo nano /etc/modules and add at the end bcm2835-v4l2 then close the file reboot and check it is loaded by Code: Select all ls -l /dev/video* OK now time to edit the motion.conf file Code: Select all sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf The changes you need to make are daemon on width 640 height 480 framerate 100 stream_localhost off Close the file next you need to fix an issue with motion or it only runs for a few seconds Code: Select all sudo mkdir /var/lib/motion sudo chown motion:motion /var/lib/motion reboot PI OK now time to start motion Code: Select all sudo service motion start Then go to a browser on your network and type 192.168.1.124:8081 The 192.168.1.124 is the IP of my Pi replace it with yours and hey presto you should see the video from your pi camera. PITFALLS I messed up initially as some of the articles incorectly us an underbar “_” instead of a dash “-“ in the name of the bcm2835-v4l2 Also in some articles the lowercase l (12th letter in the alphabet) in v4l2 looks like a 1. It is a lowercase l This article has the mistakes but if you follow above you should be OK https://learn.adafruit.com/cloud-cam-co ... opbox-sync I found the mods to motion.conf here http://www.techradar.com/how-to/computi ... me-1314466 Thanks also to Mal a star.