Camera setup for the web interface

Note

You will encounter some issues even after following the instructions to the tee. We have included references that we used to fix the problem at the end of this chapter.

In this section, we will set up the camera to stream to a browser. The first step is installing the motion package:

sudo apt-get install motion

Once the package is installed, the following configuration changes need to be applied:

1. Edit the following parameters in /etc/motion/motion.conf:

daemon on
       threshold 99999
       framerate 90
       stream_maxrate 100
       stream_localhost off

2. Include the following parameter in /etc/default/motion:

       start_motion_daemon=yes

3. Edit /etc/init.d/motion as follows:

start)

       if check_daemon_enabled ; then

       if ! [ -d /var/run/motion ]; then

       mkdir /var/run/motion

       fi

       chown motion:motion /var/run/motion

       sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2

       chmod 777 /var/run/motion

       sleep 30

       log_daemon_msg ...