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

[Frans M. <fra...@ya...>]

Thanks everyone for all of your answers.

The camera I am using is a Philips PCVC680K if memory
serves me right (don't have the cam handy). The driver
I am using is PWC 10.0.9

I am unaware on how to control which video device a
cam gets. If someone can enlighten me on this, please.

Making a symlink to /dev/video0 or 1 as suggested is
not really possible (although I could go for e.g.
/dev/video10). 
Normally the cam gets the lowest available minor, but
it could be this is already taken by another device
(in my case a usb tv card)

Thinking of it: what I actually would like is to have
motion automatically detect the presence of a new cam
and start using it.  It would be fine with me if I
have to identify the cam first.

Rationale is that I want to be able to add or remove a
cam to a running setup, preferably with no further
user interaction.
I can do the hotplug stuff (using udev) and can
scribble some code  to do that. However I did not find
an easy means to add a cam to motion without editing
the config file and restarting the prog. 
The other issue for this was that the minor number for
/dev/video might differ when a device is added or
removed.

Best regards, Frans.






		
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