I just setup motion on my N800 with os2008 and it is working great looks like if you have a sip account setup you have to shut it off or it will kill the camera. But other wise it is a great app. I even used a java code to stream it to a webserver and now you can view it in IE firefox and more .. I hope to see a front end on this app soon that will be great .
I'm logged in as root, copied the files to /home/user, but when I try to ./motion I get "permission denied". Any thoughts?
Also, a follow-up, how would I turn it off, just close the camera?
Can't wait to monitor the dog when away. But wait, that DOES mean I have to leave my nokia behind...no way.
EDIT: Does this work on OS2008? I searched the "applications running on OS2008" thread but came up empty...
EDIT2: I changed permissions to 777 and got it to run, but it is still failing. Do I need to have the camera out prior to running the app, do I close the internet call app that automatically pops open when the camera is enabled? Any help would be appreciated.
I'd just like to point out that at $220, an N800 competes pretty well in price with dedicated video server cameras.
And in response to "why would I leave the camera behind", this will be useful for me, around the house, to monitor the kids playing when I'm in another room.
EDIT2: I changed permissions to 777 and got it to run, but it is still failing. Do I need to have the camera out prior to running the app, do I close the internet call app that automatically pops open when the camera is enabled? Any help would be appreciated.
Yes i have it working on my n800 runing os2008 mine will fail also from time to time. here is what i have to do to get it runing on my system
1st set your sip accounts off if you have any .
2nd open you camera/pop it out
3rd reboot your n800
4 when the system is loaded go right to xterm and start ./motion
5 it works !!!
I have tested this over and over and it seems like you can only get it working from a clean start without any sip accounts runing . I know there must be a way to reset the camera VIA command line i just can;t find out how to do it . So you will have to do it the way i am for now.
[1] setting control "Gain" to 3 (ret 0 )
[1] Started stream webcam server in port 8081
[1] v4l2_next: VIDIOC_DQBUF: Input/output error
[1] Resuming operation... this may be a N800 quirk
[1] v4l2_next: VIDIOC_QBUF: Invalid argument
[1] Video device fatal error - terminating camera thread
[1] Thread exiting
[1] Somebody stole the video device, lets hope we got his picture: Invalid argument
[0] Motion terminating
