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[f524934]

Hi Forum,,

I'm trying to use 'motion' and need to adjust the conf file to change it from the default of /dev/video0 to what the raspberry pi camera uses. The trouble is, I don't know what to use instead. I can't see any reference to the camera in dmesg or syslog (at least not by searching for the string 'camera'). I am able to use the camera with raspistill so I know it works, I just don't know how it is represented under /dev

Can anyone enlighten me please?

Many thanks,
Tony

[jamesh]

See here..

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 43&t=44966

[f524934]

Many thanks, the answer seems to be that I need a special built version of motion and the link you gave has the magic
instructions.

Thanks again,
Tony

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sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev libavformat53 libavformat-dev libavcodec53 libavcodec-dev libavutil51 libavutil-dev libc6-dev zlib1g-dev libmysqlclient18 libmysqlclient-dev libpq5 libpq-dev

$ wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/xdfcxm5hu71s97d/motion-mmal.tar.gz

$ tar -zxvf motion-mmal.tar.gz

$ ./motion -n -c motion-mmalcam.conf

[avengery]

thanks for both of you but i still need more details
and what about the configuration the special build of motion