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

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Hi Barry,

Many thanks for those suggestions.   The 0.0.0.0 means all interfaces, but yes I could use the actual  IP address of the box.  However, the fact that I can see the stream from another machine mans that it is sending it to the correct IP address.     On your other point, I also have experienced this – especially when using Microsoft Word – for example it replaces the ‘dash’ character with ‘smart dash’ which is different and the command fails.   However in this case I typed the commend directly into the terminal so I can rule this particular issue out.

Thanks,

spindles7

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