Re: Re (2): Device node for external camera

2011-09-28 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 09/28/2011 08:06 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Hello Panayiotis, > > Ideally udev should detect each camera and assign it a device name which > will then appear in a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/. Unfortunately only a few > of > the scripts to make the devices are working. Network adapters,

Re: Device node for external camera

2011-09-22 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thank you! So how do I specify multiple cameras in the same conf file? Never mind, with what you told me I can look it up in the docs. On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:41:14 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 23/09/11 01:14, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have an external IP camera which s

Re: Device node for external camera

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
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

Re: Device node for external camera

2011-09-22 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thank you. I think this is exactly what I was looking for. On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:44:56 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:14:18 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > > I have an external IP camera which serves video at > > http://192.168.1.20/mjpeg.cgi. Actually I have 5 of

Re: Device node for external camera

2011-09-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:14:18 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > 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. Ho

Device node for external camera

2011-09-22 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
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 ca