I have watchdog working fine on my Pi 2.

You should be able to set it to run as a daemon by editing /etc/default/motion and changing the "start_motion_daemon" value. If so then you should be able to start it with "sudo service motion start" and stop it with "sudo service motion stop".

So the %v is what casues the extra number, but there is no explanation as to what it actually means except this: # %v = event, %q = frame number, %t = thread (camera) number, An "event" is a period of activity that triggers the camera, this may mean you have one event with just one image and a seco...

FWIW I'm using an A+ with the camera module running motionPie and it's working absolutely fine. I also have another A+ running Raspbian with MotionEye as the camera software, also with no issues. I initially set up motion but found I had a lot of display issues with the various browsers I use day to...