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1. Re: Motion on macOS (Mac mini 2023) (Dougie Nisbet)
2. mmal_vc could not create component vc.ril.camera (via prenestina)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 17:20:07 +0100
From: Dougie Nisbet <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Motion on macOS (Mac mini 2023)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Ah ok, thanks. It's a relief in a way. I don't fancy fighting the Apple
ecosystem and will stick with my rpis.
On 26/03/2023 17:05, MrDave wrote:
>
> Well, the following shouldn't surprise you......Apple does its own thing..
>
> To my knowledge, Apple was based upon BSD and that distro did not
> historically support v4l2.? Instead I seem to recall that Apple
> created its own proprietary variant called AVFoundation for webcams.?
> That "framework" isn't v4l2 so it won't be supported by a /dev/video
> device.
>
> I do recall that it was somehow put into ffmpeg so in theory, you
> could re-write Motion to read it in like what Motion does with the
> v4l2 device via the netcam_url option...Or try to write an ffmpeg
> script that reads the AVFoundation device and then streams it to a
> local port and then set up Motion to use the local address as the
> netcam_url
>
> Bottom line is that it isn't straight forward or even generally
> possible for webcams.? Only netcams are supported on Mac's..
>
>
> On 3/26/2023 7:00 AM, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
>> I?m trying to get motion running on a Mac and I think I?m close.
>> Downloaded and installed according to the documentation and looks ok:
>>
>> Hardware is a Mac mini 2023 running Ventura 13.2.1
>>
>> Motion is:
>>
>> dill:~ dougie$ motion -h
>>
>> motion Version 4.5.1+git20230125-ab0a463, Copyright 2000-2021 Jeroen
>> Vreeken/Folkert van Heusden/Kenneth Lavrsen/Motion-Project maintainers
>>
>>
>> I?ve tried to mimic the installs I have on my raspberry pi?s as much
>> as possible although of course the hardware is quite different. I?m
>> using a simple Logitech USB camera which I can get working with
>> FaceTime. System Information reports:
>>
>>
>> *HD Webcam C615:*
>>
>>
>> ? Model ID:UVC Camera VendorID_1133 ProductID_2092
>>
>> ? Unique ID:0x2400000046d082c
>>
>>
>> I think my problem is I?ve no idea what device to specify in the
>> config file. Normally for the rpis, module or USB, it?s /dev/video0.
>> What should I put for the Mac? Thanks for any pointers.
>>
>> Extract from log file:
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] main: Motion thread 1 restart
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0
>> is from /Users/dougie/.motion/motion.conf
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0
>> Camera Name: office Device: /dev/video0
>>
>> [1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] motion_init: Camera 0
>> started: motion detection Enabled
>>
>> [1:ml1:office] [ERR] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] init_camera_type: Unable
>> to determine camera type (MMAL, Netcam, V4L2, BKTR)
>>
>> [1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:40] motion_loop: Thread exiting
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] main: Motion thread 1 restart
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0
>> is from /Users/dougie/.motion/motion.conf
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0
>> Camera Name
>>
>> : office Device: /dev/video0
>>
>> [1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] motion_init: Camera 0
>> started: motion detection Enabled
>>
>> [1:ml1:office] [ERR] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] init_camera_type: Unable
>> to determine camera type (MMAL, Netcam, V4L2, BKTR)
>>
>> [1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:41] motion_loop: Thread exiting
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] main: Motion thread 1 restart
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0
>> is from /Users/dougie/.motion/motion.conf
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0
>> Camera Name: office Device: /dev/video0
>>
>> [1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] motion_init: Camera 0
>> started: motion detection Enabled
>>
>> [1:ml1:office] [ERR] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] init_camera_type: Unable
>> to determine camera type (MMAL, Netcam, V4L2, BKTR)
>>
>> [1:ml1:office] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:42] motion_loop: Thread exiting
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] sig_handler: Received signal 2.
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] main: Threads finished
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] main: Motion terminating
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] motion_remove_pid: Removed process
>> id file (pid file).
>>
>> [0:] [NTC] [ALL] [Mar 25 20:29:43] motion_remove_pid: Closing logfile
>> (/Users/dougie/log/motion.log).
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:43:28 +0200
From: via prenestina <[email protected]>
To: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: [Motion-user] mmal_vc could not create component
vc.ril.camera
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Hello,
I am just starting using (I wish) Motion on my RPI4 with Noir webcam
I compiled motion but now I have this error. Any suggestion?
Thank you
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