Motion
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Introduction
Motion is an open source surveillance camera recording software. Its homepage is found at [here] and is very well written and documented. Its main feature is that it detects motion (hence the name!) and can start recording based on motion criteria.
Motion in LinuxMCE
LinuxMCE has a wrapper that connects to Motion. You add this wrapper as an "Interface" on the Interface page. It is called, "Motion Wrapper". You must have this interface prior to setting up your cameras.
Adding IP cameras to motion
Axis camera is auto detected and device is generated, but not under Motion as parent. If you run IP Camera under moton you get all features motion has (motion detection,recording,etc...). Quick and not so clean workaround for adding IP camera device under Motion:
- Add Generic Analog Camera #66 Device
- Change Configuraton field to add data for IP camera
Example for Axis camera :
netcam_url http://192.168.0.90/axis-cgi/jpg/image.cgi?resolution=640x480 netcam_userpass username:password
Omit last one if you don't have any access password specified.
Compiling (contributing) to Motion Wrapper in LinuxMCE
On 0.41 version of LinuxMCE I wanted to incorporate few changes into Motion wrapper. I decided to compile it and described procedure here.
