RE: [Motion-user] happy camper, yet still a request

[Alexandre D. <ale...@fr...>]

Why not make a shell script which runs at startup and looks into you logs
(dmesg) for the webcam's description and make a symbolic link to /dev/vid=
eo0
or /dev/video1?

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : mot...@li...
> [mailto:mot...@li...]De la part de Kenneth
> Lavrsen
> Envoy=E9 : samedi 31 d=E9cembre 2005 16:31
> =C0 : mot...@li...
> Objet : Re: [Motion-user] happy camper, yet still a request
>
>
> Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm a very happy user of motion.
> >Yet today I bumped into something that triggered me to
> >write this email.
> >
> >I'm using a usb based webcam. However as I also do
> >have another usb based video device my webcam is not
> >always at /dev/video0. The minor number depends on
> >what devices were present ant startup and in what
> >order they are plugged in afterwards (if they were not
> >present).
> >
> >
> Which camera do you use?
> Maybe it would be a better solution to control which video device each
> camera gets. And this is possible for some cameras.
>
> >As motion does not have a cmd line parameter any more
> >to specify the output device, this makes autostarting
> >of motion (e.g. upon plugging the device) cumbersome.
> >
> >For the moment I have made different config files for
> >the different minors and I use the relevant config
> >file. However this leads to duplicating the conf file
> >(and eventually they might run out of sync).
> >
> >Hence, I'd like to request resurrecting the capability
> >to specify the video device from the cmd line. Would
> >this be feasible?
> >
> >
> That feature makes very little sense if you have more than one camera.
> That is a major reason why I removed also this command line option. I
> think quite many of us use Motion with more than one camera. I
> personally have 9.
>
> >Thanks (and all the best for 2006!)
> >
> >Frans Meulenbroeks
> >
> >PS: at some point I wanted to connect several webcams
> >and be able to dynamically plug in webcams (as needed
> >and as usb ports were available). For the moment this
> >seems to require starting the prog twice (unless I
> >misunderstood things)
> >
> >
> >
> The ability to start and stop individual cameras could be quite nice.
> It would take quite some redesign of the current data structures to do.
>
> You can however restart Motion from the web interface now.
> One thing missing is the ability to add and remove cameras via the web
> interface. If we could do that and then restart, it would take much les=
s
> redesign of Motion.
>
> Kenneth
>
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> Kenneth Lavrsen,
> Glostrup, Denmark
> ke...@la...
> Home Page - http://www.lavrsen.dk
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