I'm still at a loss with this. I will probably try reinstalling motion from scratch at some point.

That gives me no output at all. I also tried... ...and that gave no output either. Yet when I open a web browser to the Pi on port 8080 I do get the config page.

Here it is...
Thanks.

I've checked and Motion is already running, see below:
Here's my server settings as well:
Its very strange as I believe I have followed the online guides to the letter. I do appreciate your help, I'd love to get this working

SirLagz wrote:When motion is running, can you run a

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lsof -i | grep 8081

on the Pi to see what the output is (assuming that you're using default settings) ?

Well I did that (had to install lsof using apt-get first) and it returned no output at all??

I am using the default port settings.

Hi, sorry it took so long for me to reply. VLC didn't work either, I got a 'Cannot connect to stream' error. Also, occasionally I get a '404 Page not found' error when trying to view in a web browser (strangely, not everytime). It almost seems like a problem with the web server, although the config ...

SirLagz wrote:Can you access the stream via VLC rather than via web browser ?

Nice suggestion, I'll try it when I get home later.

I'm having issues with this as well. My camera is detected by the Pi, the camera's light is on, I can visit the config webpage (localhost and external) but when I try to go to the webcam view page, it doesn't work. The browser loads for a second or two then stops and the last webpage I was viewing s...