Re: [Motion-user] latest git fails to open netcam

[S A. <san...@gm...>]

The webcam address is listed, but with the old format
videodevice netcam
instead of the new format
video_device netcam
it fails to complete that configuration at startup.

The part in the user guide that says old parameters are still read and 
processed, just is not true for this one. Therefore it defaulted to 
/dev/video0 which is, just not there.


Jiapau via Motion-user wrote:
> v4l2_device_open: Failed to open video device /dev/video0: No such file
> or directory
>
> Did you try listing the webcams and see if the video0 is the correct one?
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 4:43 AM S Andreason <san...@gm... 
> <mailto:san...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     I updated from git and recompiled fresh
>       motion Version 4.3.1+git20210728-ea2b2a9
>
>     /etc/motion/motion.conf does have the lines:
>     videodevice netcam
>     netcam_url
>     rtsp://admin:password@192.168.254.205/Streaming/Channels/102
>     <http://admin:password@192.168.254.205/Streaming/Channels/102>
>
>