[Motion-user] What happened to the 'stream_preview_method' config option?

[Peter F. <pe...@fl...>]

I have recently started to set up motion on a Pi 3B+ running the latest 
version of raspbian Buster. I used apt to install version 4.1.1. 
Following the configuration instructions on the site, after setting up 
the basic parameters and making sure that everything worked, I tried to 
"Specify stream_preview_method 3" in the config file, in order to look 
at motion detection. I had to write the option in, since it wasn't in 
the default file, and when I ran motion, I got an 'Unknown config 
option' error for it. Further research suggests that this option may 
have existed in a previous incarnation of motion, but has not been 
available for some time. Is there a new option which provides the same 
sort of split view - showing detected motion as well as the basic video 
stream? In any event, the configuration instructions need to reflect the 
currently available (and unavailable) options.

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Peter R. Fletcher <pe...@fl...>
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