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1. Re: motion without videodevice? (tosiara)
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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:30:03 +0200
From: tosiara <[email protected]>
To: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motion without videodevice?
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Or you can try to start motion with fake netcam_url instead
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:26 AM Joris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some general unix knowledge: /dev/null is only a sink for data, not a
> source thus you can't read from it.
> The thing that does what you are thinking of is /dev/zero
>
> I haven't tested if it is possible to let motion run on /dev/zero. (if it
> isn't, I apologise for this useless email)
>
> Regards,
>
> Op di 28 jan. 2020 om 02:04 schreef Jim Dodgen <[email protected]>:
>
>> I want to have motion running befor I add cameras. then fire a SIGHUP to
>> have motion re-read the configuration. I think I have used this in the
>> past (4.1) but am not sure. currently it goes into a loop with an error
>> using /dev/null Any ideas?
>>
>> ----cut here ----
>> daemon off
>> setup_mode off
>> frequency 0
>> framerate 1
>> videodevice /dev/null
>> ----cut here ----
>> Jim "Jed" Dodgen
>> [email protected]
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