Re: [Motion-user] Remote control ?

[Klaus E. D. <mo...@ke...>]

Hi again

Fra: Erik Jakobsen=20
Til: mot...@li...=20
Emne: Re: [Motion-user] Remote control ?


I have mixed your replies together, hope you can follow anyway. ;)

>I have a firewall running on my server, where motion resides. Its a
>Linux server -Clarkconnect-, and the incoming port 8080 has been =
opened.

That should be allright unless you're running a proxy on the machine =
witch often use port 8080 but the you write

>Its a while since I played with motion. Thought it was port 8080, but =
it
>is 8082.

In that case it is port 8082 you need to open but that part i think you =
have correct also :)


>############################################################
># HTTP Based Control
>############################################################
># TCP/IP port for the http server to listen on (default: 0 =3D =
disabled)
>control_port 8082
># Restrict control connections to localhost only (default: on)
>control_localhost off
># Output for http server, select off to choose raw text plain (default: =
on)
>control_html_output on
># Authentication for the http based control. Syntax username:password
># Default: not defined (Disabled)
>; control_authentication username:password

>Do you see anything worng there ?.

No it looks okay to me, the danger i see here is if one of the =
"webcam_port" is set to that port too - not sure what would happen then.

I have just tried my own and also ran in to some trouble, the difference =
in my setup is that i use another port and have enablet =
"control_authentication"
My first try was from the machine writing from now, a Windows 2000 - i =
get the login box enter username and password but when submitting i got =
a "Page could not be displayed" ? - checking username and password in =
motion.conf and that was correct.
I then tried on my Win XP and there it works as expected, back to this =
machine but it don't work here - real strange i must admit.
There was no problem on the motion machine itself (fedora 5) using =
127.0.0.1.

The Motion version i use myself is a snap from december 2005 as the =
latest version have the bad idea that it should drop the cams adding a =
gray image that stays there until motion restart so that is not to =
compare with your SVN version of motion and i'm afraid that i can not =
help much more here.
The only thing i can think of if it should not be something broken in =
motion is that you have set your browsers up so it uses an outside proxy =
without setting that the proxy is not to be used on your local network =
but again with all the machines you have tried i find i hard to think =
that it could be that.


>What port could you suggest Klaus to be better than the 8080 ?.

Allmost everything > 1024 and not listet in "/etc/services" would be a =
good choice - on my own machines i use something odd from 50000-60000 =
that i can remember as they  seem not to probed so often as the lower =
ports but if you only set it up to access from the inside it don't =
really matters at all.

So the things i would check now is: 1) no "webcam_port" is set to the =
same as "control_port", 2) the browsers not set up to use outside proxy.

Good luck with the hunt for the reason

/klaus