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by cpu2007
Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:47 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

it keeps crashing, does anyone thing there's something wrong or an error shown in the log?
it looks fine to me.
by cpu2007
Sun Jun 23, 2013 7:46 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

ok I have changed the permissions of the folder motion which is in /etc/motion ; I've changed the rights using chmod 777 However the problem still persists. I've moved the motion folder somewhere else but it wasn't working any more so I put it back to the location where it was before. I have also ch...
by cpu2007
Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:42 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

I am not exactly sure what crashed but I have reason to believe that is motion that has crashed. 1) 192.168.0.16 is the ip of my rpi and I access it through ssh 2) 192.168.0.178 is the ip of my ip camera 3)192.168.0.16:8088 is the URL i use to access my ip camera through motion. I can access the 3rd...
by cpu2007
Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:01 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

I will try the instruction you've given on the .conf files once I get home. Thanks When you say power supply, do you mean the one of the IP camera or the one of the Rpi? In both cases, I don't see how can this be related. The reason why I am saying this is because: After the crash I can still access...
by cpu2007
Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:38 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

Thank you. I will be looking through the link you've provided, it seems very useful. It looks like that when I write motion in the command line, even if video0 has been commented it, its still tries to load it for some reason and because of it, it keeps saying unsuccessful;although the webcam can st...
by cpu2007
Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:27 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

Thank you very much You are great. It worked lol so, as you mentioned, the reason behind it not working was probably because it doesn't like the netcam_userpass parameter. I thought these parameters were for motions and motion then process them in its own way. Anyway the url I've used is as follow: ...
by cpu2007
Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:20 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

Ok, If I use the command "wget" this is what I get: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ wget 192.168.0.178/videostream.cgi --2013-06-18 19:56:56-- http://192.168.0.178/videostream.cgi Connecting to 192.168.0.178:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized Authorization failed. pi@raspbe...
by cpu2007
Tue Jun 18, 2013 3:51 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

192.168.0.178 is the IP address of my IP webcam 192.168.0.16 is the rpi IP address 192.168.0.178/videostream.cgi or 192.168.0.178/video.cgi are the only extensions that work and return raw video stream. In motion I have disabled and commented most of the settings and I am now accessing it through a ...
by cpu2007
Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:38 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

yes, I am accessing my pi through ubuntu

so what you're saying I should do is run the following command in the terminal?
wget 192.168.0.16/videostream.cgi

is that correct?
by cpu2007
Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:44 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

I am not sure. How can I find this info?

However, I have used the following parameters as well : netcam_url http://192.168.1.44/mjpg/video.mjpg
they do contain mjpg extension but none of it work ,even if I use the url directly in the browser.
by cpu2007
Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:39 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

http://192.168.0.178/videostream.cgi?rate=14 and what I use in netcam_url is this : 192.168.0.178/videostream.cgi if I use your link then it throws an error saying page not found etc. Use "http://192.168.0.178/videostream.cgi?rate=14" in netcam_url and see what happens ? Or have you already tried t...
by cpu2007
Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:23 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

Thank you I will check if there are two versions of motion installed that might be causing the problem. The led running on my laptop was my problem, accidentally i started installing motion and configuring it on my laptop while i was remotely accessing the rpi but that's fixed. Now I believe the con...
by cpu2007
Mon Jun 17, 2013 5:50 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

yes that's correct, the ip address is the ip of rpi:8088 which isn't working. I have already tested the actual ip address that I am passing to the motion.conf file. The ip address of the camera is 192.168.0.178/videostream.cgi . If i use this in the url, it does show the video in stream;i've used th...
by cpu2007
Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:33 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

yes I can access the camera through url but is giving a grey image (this is with ip camera which I bought from ebay and it's called db-power) the built in camera can be accessed through url as well but it shows a very crap video stream and I don't know how to fix that. Regarding whether the ip camer...
by cpu2007
Mon Jun 17, 2013 1:24 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

The problem is nothing is using that port which is 8088. The error failed to open the device in video0 because this file directory does not exist. My understanding is that this file/directory is only created by motion when you attach a usb webcam and then it tries to open it. However in my case I am...
by cpu2007
Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:48 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

ok,now I'm to the point where I can use the ip address and port to connect to the camera. however all I see is a grey screen after running the command "motion -n" i got the following logs can someone tell me how I can fix this? sudo motion -n [0] Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion....
by cpu2007
Fri Jun 14, 2013 8:26 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

I have tried to change the settings in the motion.conf file but no luck. The parameters that I've changed are: netcam_url {I've used my ip camera ip address plus /videostream.cgi as this extension streams video} netcam_userpass {the username and password to access the ip camera} webcam_port {i've se...
by cpu2007
Sun Apr 07, 2013 2:15 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

Re: surveillance camera through PI

The article talks about usb cameras, using lsusb I can check cams that are phisically attached to my pi but what about ip camera? how do I connect them?
by cpu2007
Mon Apr 01, 2013 3:19 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: surveillance camera through PI
Replies: 38
Views: 16132

surveillance camera through PI

Hello everyone I hope someone can help me with this. I have recently purchased an IP camera and it's set now so that I can access it through my network and also from outside(the internet). The camera comes with a web interface that allows me to access it through the browser and change settins,move t...
by cpu2007
Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:12 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Motion - Save Images to Directory According to Date
Replies: 25
Views: 27011

Re: Motion - Save Images to Directory According to Date

Thank you

I'll buy one of these ip cameras then and check how it works.

Would you be able to point out a guide/article where I can get instructions on how to setup a system with motion?

I'm fairly new to rpi and so far I managed to ssh into it and used x11 to get the UI running.
by cpu2007
Wed Feb 27, 2013 3:38 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Motion - Save Images to Directory According to Date
Replies: 25
Views: 27011

Re: Motion - Save Images to Directory According to Date

I'm looking for some cctv cameras that I can use with my rpi but unsure on what to buy. For example, there are wireless cameras that come with a receiver and these are cheap, can the receiver be connected to my rpi and control the camera etc? I found also some cameras called cctv IP wireless camera,...
by cpu2007
Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:07 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Motion - Save Images to Directory According to Date
Replies: 25
Views: 27011

Re: Motion - Save Images to Directory According to Date

I know this might be off topic but because we are talking about motion I thought I could get some advice. I'm new to rpi and would like to set a surveillance system, I've heard of midori and zoneminder but didn't find any appropriate guide that can help me set up a surveillance system. Can someone ...
by cpu2007
Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:58 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Motion - Save Images to Directory According to Date
Replies: 25
Views: 27011

Re: Motion - Save Images to Directory According to Date

I know this might be off topic but because we are talking about motion I thought I could get some advice. I'm new to rpi and would like to set a surveillance system, I've heard of midori and zoneminder but didn't find any appropriate guide that can help me set up a surveillance system. Can someone g...
by cpu2007
Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:56 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Installing linux on rpi remotely
Replies: 13
Views: 10637

Re: Installing linux on rpi remotely

Thank you for the clarification. I have installed xming and after reading a guide I have also created a config file using xlaunch. Unfortunately, I couldn't actually get in the desktop of rpi; i've used startx but it just hangs in there. However,when i typed "midori", it opened the midori browser in...
by cpu2007
Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:12 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Installing linux on rpi remotely
Replies: 13
Views: 10637

Re: Installing linux on rpi remotely

I'm not sure where I've read this but is it also possible to open graphical windows through command lines?
For example, in putty, if I run midori, will it open the browser in a window or it is compusory to have xming installed first?

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