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1. Re: motion without videodevice? (Jim Dodgen)
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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:04:50 -0800
From: Jim Dodgen <[email protected]>
To: tosiara <[email protected]>
Cc: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>, Jim
Dodgen <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motion without videodevice?
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Thanks for the help.
I think I'll just wait until I find cameras before I fork motion. and if at
some time cameras are all removed I'll kill motion, restarting when
cameras arrive.
I was just hoping that there was some built-in "idle: state for motion.
Not a be problem.
Jim "Jed" Dodgen
[email protected]
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:30 AM tosiara <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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