I managed to get the system working by not running motion in daemon but manually starting it as root (sudo motion).By looking at the task manager I found that when starting in daemon it runs 'motion' as the user. Before that I had tried giving ' motion ' audio and video permissions but still couldn'...

I have been having problems with either a cat or a fox fouling my lawn. I have used my Raspberry Pi to set up a web cam using Motion to detect and take pictures and have been able to see both foxes and cats in the garden (although I haven't caught them in the act yet). I have used the web cam in con...