From: Grant <ema...@gm...> - 2011-11-01 20:23:35
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> It looks that you have not well defined video devices , then motion is > looking for a ip cam , > > could you recheck your motion.conf and thread config files ? > > Sorry but no clue how motion runs on your system, > > I really encourage to upgrade to SVN trunk version thought. > > Cheers, > > - Angel I upgraded to SVN trunk and everything works now. Thank you. - Grant >> >> I'm using USB webcams so I should be able to specify the IP of the >> >> remote machine running motion. >> >> >> >> Actually it looks like motion isn't writing frames to disk anymore as >> >> of yesterday. I updated a lot of packages on the motion machine >> >> (running Gentoo) yesterday, including motion. The logs say: >> >> >> >> Oct 28 11:44:00 [motion] [1] Retrying until successful connection with >> >> camera >> >> Oct 28 11:44:00 [motion] [1] You must setup netcam_url >> >> >> >> Isn't netcam_url for network webcams only? I'm using USB webcams. >> >> >> >> - Grant >> > >> > Does this make sense to anyone? >> > >> > - Grant >> > >> > >> >>> Sometimes my router will shuffle a few ip addresses after a power >> >>> loss, >> >>> so make sure your cameras ip is still the same. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 19:47 -0700, Grant wrote: >> >>>> I haven't viewed the live stream from my webcam in a while. I tried >> >>>> to do it today like http://motion.remote.ip.address:8081 but the page >> >>>> doesn't load. I have 'webcam_port 8081' and 'webcam_localhost off' >> >>>> and I stopped the firewall on the machine running motion to be sure >> >>>> it >> >>>> wasn't interfering. I may be be forgetting something simple, it's >> >>>> been a while. What else could prevent it from working? >> >>>> >> >>>> - Grant >> >> Could this be a USB bandwidth problem? >> >> - Grant |