Re: [Motion-user] Log-Verbosity

[Hendrik F. <hen...@we...>]

Hi,
>> hm. Apparently, it doesn't say. Where would it?
>
> in the same log file

... which was /var/log/messages

> you might try running motion from a shell as "motion -n" so the
> messages all go
> to the terminal. perhaps your syslog daemon is discarding some messages.

Hm... motion -n looks good:
  motion -n
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0] Motion 3.2.12 Started
[0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3412993 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3415808
[0] Thread 1 is from /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.12 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] Thread 1 started
[1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo"
[1] cap.card: "Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000"
[1] cap.bus_info: "usb-orion-ehci.0-1.3.2"
[1] cap.capabilities=0x04000001
[1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] - STREAMING
[1] Test palette YUYV (640x480)
[1] Using palette YUYV (640x480) bytesperlines 1280 sizeimage 614400 
colorspace 00000000
[1] found control 0x00980900, "Brightness", range -16,16
[1]     "Brightness", default 0, current 0
[1] found control 0x00980901, "Contrast", range 1,32
[1]     "Contrast", default 15, current 16
[1] found control 0x00980902, "Saturation", range 0,60
[1]     "Saturation", default 14, current 30
[1] found control 0x00980903, "Hue", range -45,45
[1]     "Hue", default 0, current 0
[1] found control 0x00980910, "Gamma", range 100,200
[1]     "Gamma", default 150, current 160
[1] mmap information:
[1] frames=4
[1] 0 length=614400
[1] 1 length=614400
[1] 2 length=614400
[1] 3 length=614400
[1] Using V4L2
[1] Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
[1] Started stream webcam server in port 8081
[1] Resizing pre_capture buffer to 6 items
[1] File of type 1 saved to: 
/var/motion/event_01-19700101092850-00-video0.jpg
[1] File of type 1 saved to: 
/var/motion/event_01-19700101092855-00-video0.jpg
[1] File of type 1 saved to: 
/var/motion/event_01-19700101092900-00-video0.jpg
[1] File of type 1 saved to: 
/var/motion/event_01-19700101092905-00-video0.jpg
[1] File of type 1 saved to: 
/var/motion/event_01-19700101092910-00-video0.jpg
[1] File of type 1 saved to: 
/var/motion/event_01-19700101092915-00-video0.jpg
[1] File of type 2 saved to: 
/var/motion/snapshot_01-19700101-093000-video0.jpg

But in fact, even launching it in daemon mode makes no trouble anymore...
I will closely monitor it...

Possibly, motion was started twice.. Could that be the problem?

Greetings,
Hendrik