My brain hurts! I want to try out using Motion with a generic webcam, but I can't seem to penetrate the documentation. Can someone point me in the direction of some sample code to help me get started?
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Motion Tutorial?
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First of all you must be sure your generic webcam will work with motion. I have a pi with pi camera - works OK. Plugged in USB generic camera - that one won't work at all even thought the original one still does. Also check your video devices /dev/video? and /dev/v4l (for usb attached)
Yes, I have a working motion.conf - works with Pi camera. Too long to post here.
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I have 10 working Pi's with a mix of picams and various usb cams. I can send you a working (for me) motion.conf if you like.
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lsusb can see the camera, but fswebcam times out before anything useful happens.
ffmpeg -f v4l2 -video_size 640x480 -i /dev/video0 -frames 1 test.jpg returns a picture, but the exposure is way off.
Sure, send me your motion.conf file. The email address in my From header is valid. I think I was assuming that motion.conf was just a small piece of the puzzle. Was I wrong?