On 2022-03-02, Chris Elvidge <
chris@mshome.net> wrote:
On 02/03/2022 20:54, Chris Schram wrote:
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?
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.
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?
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