Re: [Motion-user] Motion not showing web page, nor captured videos

[Ian S. <ian...@gm...>]

Dear Chuck,

Many thanks for your help.

Your suggestion (which I wasn't aware of, so thank you very much) 
generated the following:-

      failed: Connection refused



Kind Regards,


Ian


On 28/08/2023 09:45, chuck elliot wrote:
>
> Have you tried connecting to the streams using ffmpeg:
>
> ffplay http://<ipaddressofmotion>:8081 -loglevel error
>
> The error output might be informative...
>
> Regards.
>
>
>
> On 28/08/2023 9:31 am, Ian Smith wrote:
>> My apologies for what most likely is a silly error on my behalf, but 
>> I am experiencing two issues. I am running Ubuntu 20.04, and I 
>> installed the latest version of motion. I have individual config fil
>> *DuckDuckGo* did not detect any trackers.
>> Unable to verify sender identity
>>
>> More →
>>
>> <https://duckduckgo.com/email/report#RFVDSzI.G44BIBwH5aYzW-JDGDdfMkvmVLY5PQAUapkq0H8BINyKRefoHONY74NWSRkWSdMofcPxdJuUgVevUraN7vrrkXNEnCFcPZoREW32Dxs2omgL1vxCmE5p-gGToxAhwUAhCDjtkrMc-xEQwMagjD466DL9dsL1oaQkT_QQE5KZ55w9-1y39JVB6w0awxFFOaQfrR2baypNNILtfkveMDYYATPnf1bkm8tLU7GZ-QyR2oozm2VKAtIcNnHOHT-tq3ebSMLlSl9PaYru8WNJ6c7H61rW0bpJABZbKMqg2DZnXzNr94aIvhgB>
>> My apologies for what most likely is a silly error on my behalf, but 
>> I am experiencing two issues.
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu 20.04, and I installed the latest version of motion.
>>
>> I have individual config files for the cameras, and a motion.conf 
>> file that refers to them.
>>
>> My motion.conf file also defines the web control port as 8080, and 
>> the stream port as 8081.
>>
>> Both the stream and web control "localhost" are "off" to allow me to 
>> view/ control from other devices.
>>
>> I can see the log file isn't showing any errors, and I am seeing 
>> files accumulating in my defined folder.
>>
>> I can see the localhost apache server default page is visible on the 
>> localhost and remotely.
>>
>> However, the page that should appear on port 8080 doesn't appear, nor 
>> does the stream on 8081. Both return "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED", but I 
>> cannot fathom why.
>>
>> I have checked that the firewall isn't blocking those ports, and the 
>> ports are open according to nmap.
>>
>> I don't know what I have done wrong.
>>
>> Also, when I did have this working before the computer crashed, the 
>> web pages were showing, but I couldn't see a way to review the 
>> captured videos ( I had previously used zoneminder, which had a 
>> simple way to review activity).
>>
>> I have been unable to find answers on the internet, nor in the 
>> documentation, so any help would be most appreciated.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> DuckDuckGo was unable to verify sender identity
>>
>>
>> DuckDuckGo was unable to verify sender identity
>>
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