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USB Webcam and Motion add-on
Webcam support on the DUO
Download UVC Video Drivers
Download Motion Application
Video drivers has been tested on arm ReadyNAS with RAIDiator 4.1.10
UVCVideo is the magic behind it all, and will install a range of drivers that will hopefully recognise your webcam. I have allowed for up to two webcams to be connected (/dev/video0 & /dev/video1). Note however, that USB video processing is processor-hungry, so don't expect lightning performance! If you have any issues with camera detection, try stopping and starting the UVCVideo resource.
Motion is a fantastic program that is highly configurable, and can be tailored to suit most requirements. It can act as a simple snapshot system for a webpage; a video surveillance system; a time-lapse capture system; and much more. It uses ffmpeg (0.4.8) to create videos, and I have included mysql support.
When you install motion, a /c/media/motion folder will be created and three files will be placed into the folder: a simple motion.conf to allow motion to start-up; a distribution version, motion-dist.conf; and a text version of the unix man-page.
If you choose a different folder, and that folder does not contain an existing motion.conf file, un-modified versions of these three files will be placed there (an existing motion.conf file will not be over-written). Only the motion.conf file is required for motion to run.
The sample motion.conf file instructs motion to do three things: create a mini http webserver accessible via port 8085; capture any movement detected as an avi file, and store this movie along with a jpeg preview of the avi file, in an "images" folder.
You will need to modify motion.conf to suit your requirements. Please read the manual and web resources for more information.
Sample two-camera feed to my iPhone using the netcamviewer app.
Geoff.
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Download UVC Video Drivers
Download Motion Application
Video drivers has been tested on arm ReadyNAS with RAIDiator 4.1.10
UVCVideo is the magic behind it all, and will install a range of drivers that will hopefully recognise your webcam. I have allowed for up to two webcams to be connected (/dev/video0 & /dev/video1). Note however, that USB video processing is processor-hungry, so don't expect lightning performance! If you have any issues with camera detection, try stopping and starting the UVCVideo resource.
Motion is a fantastic program that is highly configurable, and can be tailored to suit most requirements. It can act as a simple snapshot system for a webpage; a video surveillance system; a time-lapse capture system; and much more. It uses ffmpeg (0.4.8) to create videos, and I have included mysql support.
When you install motion, a /c/media/motion folder will be created and three files will be placed into the folder: a simple motion.conf to allow motion to start-up; a distribution version, motion-dist.conf; and a text version of the unix man-page.
If you choose a different folder, and that folder does not contain an existing motion.conf file, un-modified versions of these three files will be placed there (an existing motion.conf file will not be over-written). Only the motion.conf file is required for motion to run.
The sample motion.conf file instructs motion to do three things: create a mini http webserver accessible via port 8085; capture any movement detected as an avi file, and store this movie along with a jpeg preview of the avi file, in an "images" folder.
You will need to modify motion.conf to suit your requirements. Please read the manual and web resources for more information.
Sample two-camera feed to my iPhone using the netcamviewer app.Geoff.
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- I’m a complete Linux novice and only had my ReadyNAS Duo for about a month but I managed to get this plug-in working a treat without any real problems.
I have a few questions:
1. Is it possible to display a live video feed in the web page rather than the JPEG generated every 5 seconds?
2. Can you move the ‘webcam’ folder into a different location out of the Media folder as I would prefer to have a dedicated top level share for this? I’ve looked at the /c/media/webcam/.webcamrc file and the /etc/frontview/addons/bin/WEBCAM/start.sh file but I’m reluctant to make any modifications as I’m not familiar with the way this works.
If you can offer any advice regarding these questions it would be appreciated :)
P.S. Thank you Geoff for putting the time and effort into this! - I really wish to have an update of this topic as well
- Hey, I would be interested in this as well. Running a Duo here.
- Has any newer bin been released? Is it possible to use it with a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000?
The version linked in this thread together with GSPCA does not appear to work.
Thx in advance, nRg2410 - Apologies for being away so long.
I will try and resurrect my work on this soon. - Just wanted to let you know that there is interest (at least I am) in getting USB cameras work and people will be happy to try it if you make the add-on available and have more detailed instructions (for the technically challenged :-) )
Also would you update your post #1 to contain all the (latest) information so that people get to the right files without worrying whether they may have missed a post on one of the 3 pages.
Thanks for your efforts! - I'm also very interested! Would be great if you could add the latest bin that you created to the first post.
How perfect would it be to connect a webcam to the duo and let it capture video if there is motion :) and maybe send an email as well ;)
keep up the good work! - I would to get my logitech 9000 to work. Please help us out
//Lasse - Bump!
Just got a new ReadyNAS duo RND2120.. Super keen to get this working with my logitech quickcam pro, anyone know what's happened to this project?
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