Motion
MMAL Motion
Status:
- 20150412 - It's working.
Notes:
- Pi camera works at 10~14fps.
- Webcam works at 30?fps.
- Using 50% for jpeg quality and size: 256x144px (Pi Camera).
- With this configuration, CPU use is about 33%~96% for motion with webcam, and about 19%~53% for mmal-motion and Pi Camera.
- It only works with firefox (Windows and Android? version).
- Install Motion:
- sudo mkdir /home/webcam
- sudo chmod 777 /home/webcam
- cd /home/webcam
- sudo apt-get install motion
- Configure Motion:
- sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf
- Changing config file:
- daemon on
- framerate 15
- threshold 500
- gap 10
- max_mpeg_time 30
- output_normal center
- ffmpeg_video_codec msmpeg4
- target_dir /home/webcam
- webcam_motion on
- webcam_maxrate 30
- webcam_port 8085
- webcam_localhost off
- Configure autostart of Motion:
- sudo nano /etc/default/motion
- Start Motion:
- sudo motion
- Troubleshooting:
- "cannot create process id file ..."
- mkdir /var/run/motion
- chmod a+rwxt /var/run/motion
Testing Motion for Webcam:
- http://<Raspberry-pi_IP-address>:8085
Installing MMAL Motion for Pi Camera:
- Install Motion, dependencies and MMAL Motion:
- sudo apt-get install motion libjpeg62
- cd ~/
- mkdir mmal
- cd mmal
- wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/jw5r1wss32tdibb/motion-mmal-opt.tar.gz
- tar -zxvf motion-mmal-opt.tar.gz
- cd ./motion-mmal
- Configure Motion:
- nano motion-mmalcam.conf
- Changing config file:
- daemon on
- gap 10
- mmalcam_secondary_buffer_upscale 2
- stream_secondary off (ON to use with mmalcam_secondary_buffer_upscale)
- output_secondary_pictures off (ON to use with mmalcam_secondary_buffer_upscale)
- ffmpeg_output_secondary_movies off (ON to use with mmalcam_secondary_buffer_upscale)
- Start MMAL Motion:
- cd ~/mmal/motion-mmal/
- ./motion-mmal -n -c motion-mmalcam.conf
Testing MMAL Motion for Pi Camera:
- http://<Raspberry-pi_IP-address>:8081
References:
- Webcam Surveillance Monitor
- Setting up Wireless motion-detect cam UPDATED
- [SOLVED] Motion Run Error
- Raspberry Pi Camera Module
- Testing Multiple Pi Camera Options With Python
- The Official Raspberry Pi Camera Module
- Python PiCamera and its documentation
- PiCamera specifications
Other options for Streaming:
