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I have dozencrows wonderful adaptation of motion running on my pi. It fires up the pi camera and captures motion when it occurs. It creates a jpg file from the "center" of the motion detected, and an avi movie.

I have mail installed and the following works:

echo 'hi' | mail -s 'Sample Mail' <email address>

If I place this statement in place of value in the on_picture_save, et

; on_picture_save echo 'hi' | mail -s 'Sample Mail' <email address>

I do not get the email when the picture is saved. What am I missing?

thanks....

Try removing the leading semi-colon from your on_picture_save line, giving you: That semi-colon makes the line into a "comment" - i.e. it doesn't get read by motion. Taking it out should make it work (assuming you've got the mail side of things set up).

I've just got my camera and I'm trying to get motion running with the pi camera.
What setting are you using in motion.conf for videodevice?

Hi LBS!

There are a few ways to do this - you can set your Pi camera up as a webcam via a script triggered from a web server running on the Pi, then configure motion to read from that. See this thread for more: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 43&t=43844

Or you can try my customised version of motion which uses the Pi camera directly - read this thread for more info: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 43&t=44966