On 23/09/11 01:14, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Hi! > > I have an external IP camera which serves video at > http://192.168.1.20/mjpeg.cgi. Actually I have 5 of them with different > IPs, but that's beside the point... :-) > > I want to use the program "motion" for motion detection. However it > requires input from a device node such as /dev/video0. > > How can I create such a device node so that it corresponds to my IP camera? >
Just uncomment netcam_url string and assign it a value in ~/motion.conf It's a great program - though masking can be a little fiddly. Enable the web interface and you'll find the documentation is more accessible through it. You can also edit through the browser interface - default is http://localhost:8080 - there's a thread for each camera (I run several) NOTE: you can change the http options in motion.conf so that http is available externally (don't forget uncomment the password option). You'll also need to be in the motion group. Cheers -- "As if growing wasn't hard enough - I had a genius for an older brother. I'd say "I don't have to do anything!" and he'd say "Yeah you do - take up space, displace matter".... I'd go "Oh yeah?" even as a kid I was king of the comebacks" — Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7bd5aa.9080...@gmail.com
