Switching "Motion" ON and OFF

[ciscokid]

Hi I am new to the Pi but have managed to successfully install Motion and configure it as a surveillance camera using the tutorial:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspber ... /?ALLSTEPS

However the camera automatically runs on start up using a motion daemon and continues in the background until Pi is finally powered down. I would like to have the facility to turn motion on or off (pause) using a switch connected to a GPIO otherwise the camera will fill up the SD card with me washing the car and a switch would be a convenient way to disable the camera

I am ok with connecting switches and LEDs etc but unsure how daemons work. Any ideas would be appreciated in using Python to switch "motion" on and off.
Thanks in advance.

[DougieLawson]

viewtopic.php?t=63276 gives you all the controls you want.

[ciscokid]

Brilliant thanks. I can now switch two cameras on and off over SSH. I just need to fiddle around with the hardware switch side of things and hopefully that should do the trick!