Re: [Motion-user] Where can I find libcamerify

[Freek de K. <fr...@op...>]

Op zaterdag 25 maart 2023 19:16:48 CEST schreef Tony Ross:
> On 3/25/23 05:33, Freek de Kruijf wrote:...
> 
> > The documentation tells me use "libcamerify motion" to initialize the
> > camera for motion. However I can't find this app in the system.
> > 
> > So my question: Where can I find libcamerify
> 
> "apt-file" is a very useful package to have installed, because it tells
> us what package contains the file, e.g.:
> 
> $ apt-file search libcamerify
> libcamera-tools: /usr/bin/libcamerify

I did find this application. Thanks a lot.

However when using "systemctl start motion.service" motion starts, but also 
stops immediately. When I do "cd /etc/motion ; libcamerify motion" motion 
starts and stays alive. So I copied /usr/lib/systemd/system/motion.service to 
/etc/systemd/system and changed:

EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/motion in EnvironmentFile=-/etc/motion
ExecStart=/usr/bin/motion  in  ExecStart=/usr/bin/libcamerify /usr/bin/motion 
-c /etc/motion/motion.conf

I also added
ExecStartPre=!/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/motion
ExecStartPre=!/bin/chown motion:adm /var/run/motion

because I got complaints about not being able to write the pid file.

However this also starts motion, but stops right afterwards.
A workaround may be to start motion in a cron job after boot; did not try this 
yet.

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Freek de Kruijf