Re: [Motion-user] Motion-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 3

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

Thanks. An earlier user suggested that the problem may be due to a
memory leak caused by the relatively high frame rate. His suggestion,
to reduce the frame rate, seems to have solved the issue for me.

Chris

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Juergen Edner
<fli...@te...> wrote:
> Hello Chris,
>
>>> > Having run Motion continuously for a past week, I'm noticing an
>>> > annoying problem with an TV-IP312 wireless webcam. It and motion will
>>> > work perfectly together...for about a day, after which Motion's live
>>> > feed for the webcam will show a gray image with the caption
>>> > "Connection to Camera Lost".
>>> >
>>> > If I visit the image capture url for my webcam,
>>> > http://192.168.1.105/cgi/jpg/image.cgi, my browser gives me a "No Data
>>> > Recieved" error.
>
> I'm not using that type of wireless webcam but a model from
> Axis which caused similar problems in the past from time to time.
>
> The root cause of the problem was, that new 300Mbit WLAN access
> points had been installed in my neighborhood using the same WLAN
> channel. As soon as the signal quality had fallen below 60% - 50%
> the connection dropped. Additionally I had used DHCP to assign a
> free ip address which had failed too.
> I solved the problem by first checking the available WLANs with the
> tool inSSID (http://www.metageek.net/get_inssider_today/) and than
> reconfigured the used WLAN channel. Secondly I  assigned a dedicated
> ip address to prevent dhcp assignment problems.
>
> Regards
> Juergen