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Motion - Motion detecting device

Motion uses a video4linux device for detecting movement. It makes snapshots of the movement which can later be converted to MPEG movies, making it usable as an observation or security system. It can send out email and SMS messages or execute an external command when detecting motion. If a change is detected a snapshot will be taken.

There is a working device list on the home page to check if your device will work with 'motion.' You can also feed video back to a video4linux loopback for realtime viewing. The program can also take snapshots at regular or irregular intervals using cron.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://motion.sourceforge.net/
Source tarballhttp://motion.sourceforge.net/download/motion-3.0.5.tar.gz
Version 3.0.5 (stable) released on 2002-12-14
Version 3.1.13 (devel) released on 2003-04-26
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manpages included; User guide available in HTML format from http://www.lavrsen.dk/sources/webcam/motion_guide.htm
Support contacts

Announce List<motion@lists.frogtown.com> http://www.frogtown.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/motion
Help List<motion@lists.frogtown.com> http://www.frogtown.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/motion
Developer List<motion@lists.frogtown.com> http://www.frogtown.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/motion
Bug List<motion@lists.frogtown.com> http://www.frogtown.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/motion

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • Full list is in the CREDITS file

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Weak prerequisitesBerkeley mpeg encoder (to create mpeg movies; available from http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/frame/research/mpeg/mpeg_encode.html); video loopback device (available from http://motion.sourceforge.net/vloopback/index.html

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2000-10-17
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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