Thanks for the pointer to the differences on the config file options within motion.conf. I've had to tweak various parameters including the timelapse options, as well as the mmalcam stuff for low-light conditions. All seems to be working well right now but further testing will be required shortly wh...

You appear to have written that I wrote that. It was denoted by quotation marks and was taken from the 2nd link, as stated. I also highlighted the quoted part of the text in bold font. I hope that clarifies things for you. With regard to the actual issue at hand, I've already installed motion via ap...

Thanks for your post from around 2 years ago. Don't you just love the tinterweb? haha It has certainly clarified a few issues for me. I run 4 separate Raspberry Pi cameras (official Pi camera modules, 1 is NoIR and the other 3 are standard jobs) and moved away from the mmalcam option due to problems...

Thank you very much! This has bugged me each and every time I've used remote access. Since I have 11 Raspberry Pi units under my control, I've now been able to knock up quick SALT state to farm this change out to all Pi computers. For those interested in further knowledge, salt-master/salt-minion ar...

My desktop/GUI is now working 100% correctly and it wasn't before.

I've just encountered this on one of my Raspberry Pi 3 computers and used a quick script to locate the culprits: for a in `locate *.desktop` do echo "Checking file $a" cat $a | grep Icon if [ $? = 0 ]; then sleep .25; echo "Found Icon entry in $a" else echo "****************...

You can work around your current issue with the judicious use of crontab, if the config file doesn't understand that command. I tend to grab all the output from the camera shortly after midnight each day when the camera is not active, and dump the contents into a date/time-stamped folder. I remove t...

My error, apologies. It's a generic Linux/Unix command.
Perhaps that is something that the config file won't recognise.
I use that command regularly from the shell and also in scripts that I use when managing/sorting out photos produced by the Pi.

You need to do the following in order to achieve your goal. Note use of the so-called back ticks.

/home/pi/`date +%d%m%Y`

Back tick is located in top left hand side of keyboard and is NOT a single quote mark.