Motion - port 8081, works on Android, not on Windows?

[turbocharger]

Just bought my Pi, this is pretty much the first thing I'm trying to do, and my last brush with 'proper' computing was QBasic on DOS 6.2!

I followed this guide:
http://pingbin.com/2012/12/raspberry-pi ... er-motion/
and Motion runs on the Pi, but I'm having trouble viewing the image on anything but my phone. I've set "webcam_localhost off", and basically it looks like it *should* be working because I can see it ok on Chrome for Android:

[*]I can see the live image, working fine and updating each second, when I go to 192.168.0.9:8081 with Chrome for Android on my phone, which is using my Wifi network.
[*]I can't see the image in the normal "Internet" browser on my phone, or on Chrome or IE7 on either my Windows PC or my laptop.
[*]When I change motion.conf to show "webcam_port 80" (aiming to just use 192.168.0.9 to view the image) it stops working on Android Chrome too.

I'm not sure if the third point is related, but it all seems mighty strange. Any clues or pointers?

[turbocharger]

Anyone? I'm going to move on to Port Forwarding, it doesn't work at the moment but I don't know if that's a continuation of this problem or something else.

[SirLagz]

Moving the port to 80 will not work as the motion user ( which the daemon runs under ) doesn't have permissions to open port 80.
Leave the port on 8080, and use VLC on the windows computer to open the stream "http://192.168.0.9:8081" and you should see the motion output.

[PiSi]

Had similar yesterday - it didn't work from my windows laptop using Chrome or IE, Android tablet using Chrome but it did sort of work from my iPhone. All were on the same wireless network.

Did have to keep refreshing iPhone to show the new image though.

Didn't change to port 80 as looked like a browser issue.

Search came up showing Firefox was the only reliable browser it worked on. Guess its a server/browser conflict with no common solution.

Will try changing frame rates as well to reduce the load on the Pi.

Will try VNC as well.

Simon

[PiSi]

Can confirm this works with VNC - more options as well compared to the browser view.

Simon

[SirLagz]

Chrome works for me on my linux machine. What version of Chrome are you guys running ?

[PiSi]

Used Chrome on Windows 7 and Android 4.1.2 - guessing its an options or plugins issue for me as it worked on my iPhone.

Simon

Chrome works for me on my linux machine. What version of Chrome are you guys running ?

[SirLagz]

What version of Chrome did you use on Windows7 ?
I haven't installed any plugins on my install of Chrome.

[PiSi]

Using the current version of Chrome (Version 29.0.1547.66 m) on Windows 7.

Might just be an issue with my version or an option not selected.

Simon

What version of Chrome did you use on Windows7 ?
I haven't installed any plugins on my install of Chrome.

[SirLagz]

Looks like an issue with Chrome on Windows, doesn't work on my Win7 laptop.

[agocs]

I have the same problem. I googled some, and turned out that desktop Chrome does not handle properly the mjpg stream. It's ok on my Android Chrome, but on on Windows or Mac. I've found a solution written in JAVA, called Cambozola, but I couldn't make it work yet

[SirLagz]

VLC on windows will also work.

[shubhu2411]

Hi everybody
I am a newbie to raspberry pi but somehow I managed to run motion with my webcam. I can see my video streaming in my LAN as well as from internet but on port 8081. Is there any way I can make it run on port 80 so that I can view the video stream by typing only ip address. I am trying to develop a low cost network camera by which I can record and analyse behavioural experimental data by a sophisticated software package. But the software is allowing to add network camera by its IP only. Please suggest me how I can make it work.

[adlan]

Hye.
I'm facing a problem which I'm not able to view my webcam stream using browser on my android phone but I'm able to do so by using other browsers. Is there anyway to fix this problem?

[dlrlbgtm]

Create the following index.html file and place it in /var/www/

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<html>
<img src="http://192.168.0.102:8081">
</html>

Replace "192.168.0.102" by your local ip address for the pi.
Now when you go to 192.168.0.102 on your browser, you should see the video stream