This post is concerning multimedia/motion. An open source motion detection and recording program.
My BlueCherry on Linux APU2 computer croaked so I am rebuilding my Digital Security System.
First I tried Zoneminder again and my experience was actually worse this time, So I tried ZM on Devuan.
Fail there too. It works but not to my expectations.
So began searching for alternatives. I found a cool project called motioneye.
This is a gui for motion which provides a window for each camera.
That was all I needed. Problem is no port on FreeBSD. So I started puttering around with it and PIP.
Well motioneye has a wiki to setup on "other" OS's. Luckily it was close to what I needed.
In setting up for motioneye I did not have very good instructions for configuration.
So I had to learn how to configure the motion configuration file motion.conf.
It is very well commented and motions documentation is excellent.
https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion
So I started with a security cam with no login needed as they are the easiest.
I added my cameras path and some other settings to motion.conf and went outside to clean the gutters in a motion capture test.
All I can say is WOW. It caught everything it was supposed to. The motion algorithms are working well.
It caught squirrels and humans, but not shadows and branches swaying.
I am so impressed that I am added 3 more cameras tonight to see how it does with a load.
Now that I have it running I started to tweak it as I don't need jpegs just movies of the capture.
I noticed that some settings in the Wiki were not present in motion.conf.
Then I looked at the version. FreeBSD's version is two years old and many versions behind.
So I might consider trying to upgrade this UNMAINTAINED port. Is anybody out there using it?
It seems to even work on the RaspberryPi too.
My thoughts are take this port over and try to port motioneye as well. Anybody need a simple GUI for motion?
https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki
My BlueCherry on Linux APU2 computer croaked so I am rebuilding my Digital Security System.
First I tried Zoneminder again and my experience was actually worse this time, So I tried ZM on Devuan.
Fail there too. It works but not to my expectations.
So began searching for alternatives. I found a cool project called motioneye.
This is a gui for motion which provides a window for each camera.
That was all I needed. Problem is no port on FreeBSD. So I started puttering around with it and PIP.
Well motioneye has a wiki to setup on "other" OS's. Luckily it was close to what I needed.
In setting up for motioneye I did not have very good instructions for configuration.
So I had to learn how to configure the motion configuration file motion.conf.
It is very well commented and motions documentation is excellent.
https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion
So I started with a security cam with no login needed as they are the easiest.
I added my cameras path and some other settings to motion.conf and went outside to clean the gutters in a motion capture test.
All I can say is WOW. It caught everything it was supposed to. The motion algorithms are working well.
It caught squirrels and humans, but not shadows and branches swaying.
I am so impressed that I am added 3 more cameras tonight to see how it does with a load.
Now that I have it running I started to tweak it as I don't need jpegs just movies of the capture.
I noticed that some settings in the Wiki were not present in motion.conf.
Then I looked at the version. FreeBSD's version is two years old and many versions behind.
So I might consider trying to upgrade this UNMAINTAINED port. Is anybody out there using it?
It seems to even work on the RaspberryPi too.
My thoughts are take this port over and try to port motioneye as well. Anybody need a simple GUI for motion?
https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki