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.

Motion is a command line based tool. It has no graphical user interface. Everything is setup either via the command line or via configuration files.

The output from motion can be:

Also, motion has its own minimalistic web server. Thus, you can access the webcam output from motion via a browser.

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Homepage

https://motion-project.github.io/

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