Description
Motion is a highly configurable program that monitors video signals from many types of cameras.
Set it up to monitor your security cameras, watch birds, check in on your pet, create timelapse videos and more.
Create videos or save pictures of the activity
Passthrough recording from many IP cameras
View live stream of cameras
Invoke scripts when activities occur
Log activity into multiple types of databases
Fully customizable masks for privacy or motion detection
Full tls(https) support with authentication for webcontrol and streams
Use Motion with many types of devices
Network cameras via RTSP, RTMP and HTTP
PI cameras
V4L2 webcams
Video capture cards
Existing movie files
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README
Motion
Description
Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. Or in other words, it can detect motion.
Documentation
The documentation for Motion is contained within the file motion_guide.html.
The offline version of this file is available in the doc/motion directory. The online version of the motion_guide.html file can be viewed here
In addition to the detailed building instructions included within the guide, the INSTALL file contains abbreviated building instructions.
Resources
Please join the mailing list here
We prefer support through the mailing list because more people will have the benefit from the answers. A archive of mailing list discussions can be viewed here
License
Motion is mainly distributed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL) version 2 or later. See the copyright file for a list of all the licensing terms of the various components of Motion.
The file CREDITS lists the many people who have contributed to Motion over the years.
Contributing
Issues and Patches should be submitted via github and include detail descriptions of the issue being addressed as well as any documentation updates that would be needed with the change.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Motion README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.