Detailed topic list for Motion Web

ConfigOptionFfmpegFilename

Default value is equivalent to legacy 'oldlayout' option For Motion 3.0 compatible mode (directories based on date and time) choose: %Y/%m/%d/%H%M%S File extensio...

r7 - 06 Aug 2016 - 21:43 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionFfmpegOutputDebugMovies

Works like ffmpeg_output_movies but outputs motion pixel type pictures instead. This feature generates the special motion type movie where you only see the pixels...

ConfigOptionFfmpegOutputMovies

Generates a new film at the beginning of each new event and appends to the film for each motion detected within the same event. The current event ends when the ti...

ConfigOptionFfmpegTimelapse

This feature uses ffmpegs libavcodec to encode a timelapse movie saving a picture frame at the interval in seconds set by this parameter. Setting this option to 0...

r8 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionFfmpegTimelapseMode

Note that it is important that you use the conversion specifiers in ffmpeg_filename that ensure that the new timelapse file indeed is a new file. If the filename ...

ConfigOptionFfmpegVariableBitrate

Experiment for the value that gives you the desired compromise between size and quality.

ConfigOptionFfmpegVideoCodec

Supported formats are: * mpeg4 or msmpeg4 gives you files with extension .avi * msmpeg4 is recommended for use with Windows Media Player because it requir...

r13 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionForm

Form Topic for motion.conf options Name:* *Type: Size: Values: Tooltip message: Option text 50 Option Name always lower case and with under...

r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 17:12 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionFramerate

The faster you fetch pictures from the camera the more CPU load you get and the more pictures get included when Motion is detected. Motion will stop storing pictu...

r9 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionFrequency

This option is only relevant if you have a TV tuner card where you can select the tuner frequency. Your tuner card must support this feature.

ConfigOptionGap

Recommended value is 60 seconds (Default). The value 0 is allowed (but not recommended) and disables events causing all Motion to be written to one single mpeg fi...

r7 - 06 Aug 2016 - 22:11 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionHeight

The height of the image in pixels. Motion does not scale so should be set to the actual size of the v4l device. In case of a net camera motion sets the height to ...

r8 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionHue

Normally only relevant for NTSC cameras.

ConfigOptionInput

This parameter is really used only with video capture cards that has more than one input. However if you set the input number to e.g. 1 for a USB camera motion wr...

r8 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionIpv6Enabled

This sets the TCP/IP port number to be used for control of motion using http (browser). Port numbers below 1024 normally requires that you have root privileges. P...

ConfigOptionJpegFilename

Default value is equivalent to legacy 'oldlayout' option. For Motion 3.0 compatible mode (directories based on date and time) choose: %Y/%m/%d/%H/%M/%S %q This op...

r7 - 06 Aug 2016 - 22:35 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionLightswitch

Experiment to see what works best for your application. Note: From version 3.1.17 (snap release 2 and on) this option has changed from a boolean (on or off) to a ...

r11 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionLocate

The value 'preview' only works when 'output_normal' is set to either 'first' or 'best'.

r4 - 06 Aug 2016 - 22:40 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionLocateMotionMode

The value 'preview' only works when 'output_normal' is set to either 'first' or 'best'.

ConfigOptionLocateMotionStyle

* Set to 'box' will draw the traditional box. * Set to 'redbox' will draw a red box. * Set to 'cross' will draw a little cross to mark center. * Set to '...

ConfigOptionLogLevel

You can use this parameter to set how much information you want from the logging. You will typically use a high value when you are trouble shooting a problem. The...

ConfigOptionLogType

This enables users and developers to isolate logging information to a specific area of interest. The log types are Short Name COR Core STR ...

ConfigOptionLogfile

ConfigOptionLowCpu

* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic This is smart for running a server that also does other tasks such as running Apache, MySQL ...

r19 - 18 Nov 2010 - 23:37 by MattCastelein

ConfigOptionMaskFile

Full path of the PGM (portable gray map) mask file (binary format). If you have one or more areas of the camera image in which you do NOT want motion detected (e....

r9 - 10 Aug 2016 - 18:51 by ChrisAAA

ConfigOptionMaxMovieTime

The parameter sets the limit of the time and not the size of the file

NEW - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionMaxMpegTime

The parameter sets the limit of the time and not the size of the file

r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 19:43 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionMinimumFrameTime

This option is used when you want to capture images at a rate lower than 2 per second. When this is enabled the framerate option is used only to set the pace the ...

ConfigOptionMinimumGap

* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic This is the minimum gap between the storing pictures while detecting motion. The value zero ...

r7 - 23 Mar 2014 - 18:13 by AndrewKnutsen

ConfigOptionMinimumMotionFrames

Note that the picture frames are buffered by Motion and once motion is detected also the first frames containing motion are saved so you will not miss anything. T...

r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionMotionVideoPipe

Using this you can view the results in real time. E.g. by using the program camstream. The difference between this option and the video pipe option is that this o...

ConfigOptionMovieFilename

File extension .mpg or .avi is automatically added so do not include this. This option uses conversion specifiers which are codes that start by % and then a lette...

r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionMysqlDb

MySQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with MySQL libraries to use this feature. If you compiled motion with MySQL support you will need to set the mysql ...

r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 10:41 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionMysqlHost

MySQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with MySQL libraries to use this feature

r6 - 07 Aug 2016 - 10:21 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionMysqlPassword

MySQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with MySQL libraries to use this feature.

r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 10:41 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionMysqlUser

MySQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with MySQL libraries to use this feature

r5 - 07 Aug 2016 - 10:41 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionNetcamHttp

* 1.0: the historical implementation using HTTP/1.0, closing the socket after each http request. * keep_alive: Use HTTP/1.0 requests with keep alive header to ...

r4 - 07 Aug 2016 - 11:09 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionNetcamKeepalive

* off: The historical implementation using HTTP/1.0, closing the socket after each http request. * on: Use HTTP/1.1 requests that support keep alive as default...

ConfigOptionNetcamProxy

Use this if you need to connect to a network camera through a proxy server. Example of syntax: "http://myproxy.mydomain.com:1024 If the proxy port number is 80 y...

ConfigOptionNetcamTolerantCheck

r12 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionNetcamUrl

Motion can connect to a network camera through a normal TCP socket. All you need to give it is the URL. The URL given must return either one single jpeg picture o...

r12 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionNetcamUserpass

r7 - 07 Aug 2016 - 20:19 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionNightCompensate

* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic It has normally been the advice not to use this with 'noise_tune' turned on. However the lat...

r8 - 14 Apr 2008 - 16:12 by KennethLavrsen

ConfigOptionNoiseLevel

This is different from the threshold parameter. This is changes at pixel level. The purpose is to eliminate the changes generated by electric noise in the camera....

ConfigOptionNoiseTune

This feature makes Motion continuously adjust the noise threshold for distinguishing between noise and motion. The 'noise_level' setting is ignored when activatin...

ConfigOptionNorm

This value is only used for capture cards using the BTTV driver.