Motion
| Website | http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome |
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| License | GPL |
| OS | GNU/Linux |
| Media | Surveillance |
| Format | PNG |
| Interface | Command-line interface, |
| Wikipedia | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_%28surveillance_software%29 |
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Motion is an open source "software motion detector".
It's a command line program, designed to run optionally as a "daemon". It uses Video4Linux for camera input (e.g. webcams). It includes scripting possibilities.
By default, motion, puts some interesting files in the following places:
/etc/motion/motion.conf /var/lib/motion/snapshots /usr/share/doc/motion/examples
Following the "tuning" instructions: http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/TuningMotion
To start I opened a terminal, made a folder to work in (in my system /home/murtaugh/Documents/motion), and cd'd into this folder. The I made a copy of the default conf file to make changes to. When you start motion, it will first look for a file named "motion.conf" in the current directory. You can also start it with the "-c" option to specify a custom configuration file (useful if you have different kinds of setups you want to test).
http://www.debian-administration.org/article/An_Introduction_to_Video_Surveillance_with_%27Motion%27