Motion configuration file...

[Victormd]

I'm trying to setup motion in ubuntu 10.10. My webcam is detected and works - however, motion does not adhere to my configuration file, especially here:

# Threshold for number of changed pixels in an image that
# triggers motion detection (default: 1500)
threshold 2

# Automatically tune the threshold down if possible (default: off)
threshold_tune off

# Noise threshold for the motion detection (default: 32)
noise_level 2

# Automatically tune the noise threshold (default: on)
noise_tune off

I ran motion in setup mode to check the levels I was getting and based on the output, my levels are useless, here's an example:

[1] Changes: 140 - noise level: 13
[1] Changes: 209 - noise level: 13
[1] Changes: 352 - noise level: 13
[1] Changes: 461 - noise level: 13
[1] Changes: 651 - noise level: 13
[1] Changes: 865 - noise level: 13
[1] Changes: 986 - noise level: 13
[1] Changes: 1065 - noise level: 13
[1] Changes: 1115 - noise level: 13
[1] Changes: 1133 - noise level: 13
[1] Changes: 1220 - noise level: 13
[1] Changes: 1295 - noise level: 13
[1] Changes: 1308 - noise level: 13

and no motion was detected, only when the default (1500) was reached, did motion capture images...

Any thoughts?

[Sebastian.Ovide]

same problem here....

[keithandr2]

I'm having a similar problem in mint9, it won't save videos only images and it dumps them straight to the home folder instead of creating /tmp/motion like it should

[keithandr2]

its because your not using motion as root, if you use sudo motion it should work properly, or just give the user root access to the motion folder