Re: [Motion-user] text upper left

[Richard B. <ri...@g8...>]

Its not a Motion thing is a Foscam thing
You cant just change the camera name, you have to turn off the camera
name display, before it can be changed, all the other parms can be
changed on the hoof, but not the camera name, PITA !!

Richard

On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 20:59 +0100, Richard Bown wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a text string in the top left hand corner, which I need to
> change
> 
> in my .conf file for that cam
> 
> # Text to be overlayed in the lower left corner of images
> text_left
> 
> # Text to be overlayed in the lower right corner of images.
> text_right Camera1n%Y-%m-%d\n%T-%q
> 
> Strangely there is no text in the lower right corner
> 
> only the top left corner ,
> 
> date,time
> [an old camera name]
> 
> I would like to change that camera name
> Its a Foscam camera , and I've tried in the foscam app without
> success
> 
> What have I manage to screw up ????