Motion start errors

Question

Hello,

I installed the Motion package on my RPi (v2, with Debian) with a RPi camera using the instructions given at http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/665518/Raspberry-Pi-as-low-cost. When I run Motion, the camera light does not come on and I get bunch of errors. (See the full listing below).

I am not sure what to do? My RPi Camera works, because I can use camera functions (rapistill and rapivid) without any problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

=[-1242614944] [NTC] [ALL] conf_load: Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/mot$

[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "emulate_motion_$
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "output_normal"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "output_motion"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_cap_new"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_cap_moti$
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_video"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "locate"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "jpeg_filename"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "webcam_port"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "webcam_quality"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "webcam_motion"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "webcam_maxrate"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "webcam_localhos$
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "webcam_limit"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "control_port"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "control_localho$
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "control_html_ou$
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "sql_log_image"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "sql_log_mpeg"
[-1242512544] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "log_file"
[-1242512544] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using default log level (NTC) (6)
[-1242512544] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Motion mmaltest Started
[-1242512544] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Logging to syslog
[-1242512544] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using default log type (ALL)
[-1242512544] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using log type (ALL) log level (NTC)
[-1242512544] [NTC] [ENC] ffmpeg_init: ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3482368 LIBAVFOR$
[0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Thread 1 is from /etc/motion.conf
[0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Thread 1 is device: /dev/video1 input -1
[0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Stream port 0
[0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 6096
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_init: Thread 1 started , motion detection Enabled
[1] [NTC] [VID] vid_v4lx_start: Using videodevice /dev/video1 and input -1
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_get_capability:
------------------------
cap.driver: "gspca_zc3xx"
cap.card: "USB Camera (041e:403a)"
cap.bus_info: "usb-bcm2708_usb-1.2.2"
cap.capabilities=0x85000001
------------------------
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_get_capability: - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_get_capability: - READWRITE
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_get_capability: - STREAMING
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_select_input: name = "gspca_zc3xx", type 0x00000002, statu$
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_select_input: - CAMERA
[1] [WRN] [VID] v4l2_select_input: Device doesn't support VIDIOC_G_STD
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_set_pix_format: Config palette index 8 (MJPG) doesn't work.
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_set_pix_format: Supported palettes:
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_set_pix_format: (0) JPEG (JPEG)
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_set_pix_format: 0 - JPEG (compressed : 1) (0x4745504a)
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_set_pix_format Selected palette JPEG
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_do_set_pix_format: Testing palette JPEG (320x240)
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_do_set_pix_format: Using palette JPEG (320x240) bytesperli$
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980900, "Brightness", ran$
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_scan_controls:     "Brightness", default 128, current 128
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980901, "Contrast", range$
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_scan_controls:     "Contrast", default 128, current 128
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980910, "Gamma", range 1,6
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_scan_controls:     "Gamma", default 4, current 4
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980911, "Exposure", range$
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_scan_controls:     "Exposure", default 2343, current 2343
[1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_scan_controls: found control 0x00980912, "Gain, Automatic"$
[1] [NTC] [VID] vid_v4lx_start: Using V4L2
[1] [NTC] [ALL] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
[1] [ERR] [VID] v4l2_next: VIDIOC_DQBUF:
[1] [ERR] [VID] v4l2_next: VIDIOC_DQBUF:
[1] [ERR] [VID] v4l2_next: VIDIOC_DQBUF:
[1] [ERR] [VID] v4l2_next: VIDIOC_DQBUF:
[1] [ERR] [VID] v4l2_next: VIDIOC_DQBUF:
[1] [ERR] [ALL] motion_init: Error capturing first image
[1] [NTC] [ALL] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture buffer to 3 items
[1] [ERR] [VID] v4l2_next: VIDIOC_DQBUF:
[1] [ERR] [ALL] motion_loop: Video device fatal error - Closing video device
[1] [NTC] [VID] vid_close: Closing video device /dev/video1
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: End of event 1
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: Thread exiting
[0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Threads finished
[0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Motion terminating
[-1242614944] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using default log type (ALL)
[-1242614944] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using log type (ALL) log level (NTC)
[-1242614944] [NTC] [ENC] ffmpeg_init: ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3482368 LIBAVFOR$
[0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Thread 1 is from /etc/motion.conf
[0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Thread 1 is device: /dev/video1 input -1
[0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Stream port 0
[0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 6155
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_init: Thread 1 started , motion detection Enabled
[1] [NTC] [VID] vid_v4lx_start: Using videodevice /dev/video1 and input -1
[1] [ALR] [VID] vid_v4lx_start: Failed to open video device /dev/video1:
[1] [WRN] [ALL] motion_init: Could not fetch initial image from camera Motion c$
[1] [NTC] [ALL] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
[1] [NTC] [ALL] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture buffer to 3 items
[1] [WRN] [ALL] motion_loop: Retrying until successful connection with camera
[1] [NTC] [VID] vid_v4lx_start: Using videodevice /dev/video1 and input -1
[1] [ALR] [VID] vid_v4lx_start: Failed to open video device /dev/video1:
[1] [WRN] [ALL] motion_loop: Retrying until successful connection with camera
[1] [NTC] [VID] vid_v4lx_start: Using videodevice /dev/video1 and input -1
[1] [ALR] [VID] vid_v4lx_start: Failed to open video device /dev/video1:
[1] [WRN] [ALL] motion_loop: Retrying until successful connection with camera
[1] [NTC] [VID] vid_v4lx_start: Using videodevice /dev/video1 and input -1
[1] [ALR] [VID] vid_v4lx_start: Failed to open video device /dev/video1:=

Environment

Motion version:	3.2.12-3.4
ffmpeg version:	6:0.8.10-1+rpi1
Libraries:	libavcodec53 (>= 6:0.8.3-1~)	libavcodec-extra-53 (>= 6:0.8.6), libavformat53 (>= 6:0.8.3-1~), libavutil51 (>= 6:0.8.3-1~), libc6 (>= 2.13-28), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.24+dfsg-1), libpq5, debconf (>= 0.5)	debconf-2.0, adduser, debconf
Server OS:	raspberry Debian

-- AthenaHattutash - 06 May 2014

Answer

edit motion.conf file (/usr/local/etc/motion.conf) and check settings. See named of variables, this may be changed it latest versions motion: webcam_maxrate = stream_maxrate webcam_port=stream_port...

-- SemenovAlexey - 08 May 2014

Yes, you are using old config with newever motion. Param names have been changed, so you need to update your config

-- TosiaraT - 12 Apr 2015