Just managed to get Motionpi installed and running on a Pi B. It works and I can view a video stream over a browser. However I wanted to try and get the Pi to also drive a servo to move the camera around and I cannot seem to log into the terminal on the pi to install any software packages. I get acc...

Thank you. Then all I need to do is figure out how to use Pigio..

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@ Joan: Ah I see so if I paste the following at the command line:
wget abyz.co.uk/rpi/pigpio/pigpio.zip
unzip pigpio.zip
cd PIGPIO
make
sudo make install

the rest is generated by the system?

@ asandford: Thank you - wow that's a lot of typing! Do you have to enter all that at the command line and do you install it on a new rasp OS install? Once you've put in the last line what's next? Thanks.

'Five minutes at worst to download and install. Similar for servoblaster.'. As I say that seems to be the bit that defeats me, what are the steps to install and run? I have tried it but no response....

Joan - thanks for the pointer to http://abyz.co.uk/videos/pan_tilt_2.mp4. Unfortunately my PC couldn't play the file as it says it is corrupt. Thank you to all for their pointers. I had heard of servoblaster and I guess my original question was a little bit of a 'back to the basics' question of whet...

I thought I knew a little about the Raspberry Pi having done some projects - XBMC, file server, webcam - but the current one has me stumped and on the verge of binning the raspi. I would like a fairly simple set of instructions to setup the pi to control two servos in a pan and tilt mechanism. I kno...