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[Motion-user] RPi Camera stream over network to Motion

[spindles s. <spi...@gm...>]

Have got a Raspberry Pi with the RPi Camera V.2 which I have just installed RaspberryPi OS Bullseye from an image. Trying to use the built-in libcamera-vid command to stream the video to another machine (running Debian Bookworm and Motion 4.5.1). I can view the stream using VLC on my Windows machine with the string:

tcp/h264://192.168.2.254:3000

where 192.168.2.254 is the IP address of the Raspberry Pi and 3000 is the port specified in the libcamera-vid command which is:

libcamera-vid -t 0 --inline --listen -o tcp://0.0.0.0:3000

Have tried various netcam_url settings, but none of the will work. Anybody any clues as to what the correct settings in motion.conf could be to allow the stream to be captured coirrectly?

Thanks,

spindles7

Re: [Motion-user] RPi Camera stream over network to Motion

[Barry M. <bar...@gm...>]

Hi spindels7!


> Have got a Raspberry Pi with the RPi Camera V.2 which I have just installed RaspberryPi OS Bullseye from an image. Trying to use the built-in libcamera-vid command to stream the video to another machine (running Debian Bookworm and Motion 4.5.1). I can view the stream using VLC on my Windows machine with the string:
>
> tcp/h264://192.168.2.254:3000
>
> where 192.168.2.254 is the IP address of the Raspberry Pi and 3000 is the port specified in the libcamera-vid command which is:
>
> libcamera-vid -t 0 --inline --listen -o tcp://0.0.0.0:3000
>
> Have tried various netcam_url settings, but none of the will work. Anybody any clues as to what the correct settings in motion.conf could be to allow the stream to be captured coirrectly?

I use Raspberry Pi's but with USB cameras so this is guesswork. First 
thing that popped out with the 0.0.0.0 IP address; seems like it should 
be the local address (192. ...)

My second suggestion  is more of a caution.  I tend to write my notes in 
a (temporary) text document so use copy and paste.  I've found the 
punctuation doesn't always copy correctly, most common being the double 
hyphens will convert to a single long hyphen. I've also come across 
where a space character at the end of a command will invalidate: 
3000space is not the same as 3000.

Hope this helps point to fixing your problem -- Motion is a great utility!

Barry

Re: [Motion-user] RPi Camera stream over network to Motion

[spindles s. <spi...@gm...>]

Hi Barry,

Many thanks for those suggestions.   The 0.0.0.0 means all interfaces, but yes I could use the actual  IP address of the box.  However, the fact that I can see the stream from another machine mans that it is sending it to the correct IP address.     On your other point, I also have experienced this – especially when using Microsoft Word – for example it replaces the ‘dash’ character with ‘smart dash’ which is different and the command fails.   However in this case I typed the commend directly into the terminal so I can rule this particular issue out.

 

Thanks,

spindles7

Hi spindels7!

 

Have got a Raspberry Pi with the RPi Camera V.2 which I have just installed RaspberryPi OS Bullseye from an image. Trying to use the built-in libcamera-vid command to stream the video to another machine (running Debian Bookworm and Motion 4.5.1). I can view the stream using VLC on my Windows machine with the string:
 
tcp/h264://192.168.2.254:3000
 
where 192.168.2.254 is the IP address of the Raspberry Pi and 3000 is the port specified in the libcamera-vid command which is:
 
libcamera-vid -t 0 --inline --listen -o tcp://0.0.0.0:3000
 
Have tried various netcam_url settings, but none of the will work. Anybody any clues as to what the correct settings in motion.conf could be to allow the stream to be captured coirrectly?

I use Raspberry Pi's but with USB cameras so this is guesswork.  First thing that popped out with the 0.0.0.0 IP address; seems like it should be the local address (192. ...)

My second suggestion  is more of a caution.  I tend to write my notes in a (temporary) text document so use copy and paste.  I've found the punctuation doesn't always copy correctly, most common being the double hyphens will convert to a single long hyphen.  I've also come across where a space character at the end of a command will invalidate: 3000space is not the same as 3000.

Hope this helps point to fixing your problem -- Motion is a great utility!

Barry

 

 

Re: [Motion-user] RPi Camera stream over network to Motion

[Barry M. <bar...@gm...>]

Hi spindels7!

> Many thanks for those suggestions.   The 0.0.0.0 means all interfaces, 
> but yes I could use the actual  IP address of the box.  However, the 
> fact that I can see the stream from another machine mans that it is 
> sending it to the correct IP address.
>
Thanks for the information.  Here's another WAG based on my USB cameras: 
try prefacing with "http://" -- I think most utilities are automatically 
using "https://"  (no quotes, of course!).

As you're able to view on another machine this probably won't help but 
will mention anyway: my configurations use camera numbers and this 
number needs to be added to the end: "http://192.168.4.221:8081/1".  
That '/1' is derived from the configuration file:

     # Numeric identifier for the camera.
     camera_id 1


> On your other point, I also have experienced this – especially when 
> using Microsoft Word – for example it replaces the ‘dash’ character 
> with ‘smart dash’ which is different and the command fails.   However 
> in this case I typed the commend directly into the terminal so I can 
> rule this particular issue out.
>
OK -- hope someone else replies so you can get a better suggestion. :)

Barry