Re: [Motion-user] RPi Camera stream over network to Motion

[Barry M. <bar...@gm...>]

Hi spindels7!


> Have got a Raspberry Pi with the RPi Camera V.2 which I have just installed RaspberryPi OS Bullseye from an image. Trying to use the built-in libcamera-vid command to stream the video to another machine (running Debian Bookworm and Motion 4.5.1). I can view the stream using VLC on my Windows machine with the string:
>
> tcp/h264://192.168.2.254:3000
>
> where 192.168.2.254 is the IP address of the Raspberry Pi and 3000 is the port specified in the libcamera-vid command which is:
>
> libcamera-vid -t 0 --inline --listen -o tcp://0.0.0.0:3000
>
> Have tried various netcam_url settings, but none of the will work. Anybody any clues as to what the correct settings in motion.conf could be to allow the stream to be captured coirrectly?

I use Raspberry Pi's but with USB cameras so this is guesswork. First 
thing that popped out with the 0.0.0.0 IP address; seems like it should 
be the local address (192. ...)

My second suggestion  is more of a caution.  I tend to write my notes in 
a (temporary) text document so use copy and paste.  I've found the 
punctuation doesn't always copy correctly, most common being the double 
hyphens will convert to a single long hyphen. I've also come across 
where a space character at the end of a command will invalidate: 
3000space is not the same as 3000.

Hope this helps point to fixing your problem -- Motion is a great utility!

Barry