User Guide

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wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/
xdfcxm5hu71s97d/motion-mmal.tar.gz
5. Type the following command and then press Enter:
tar zxvf motion-mmal.tar.gz
6. Type the following command and then press Enter:
sudo mv motion /usr/bin/motion
7. Type the following command and then press Enter:
sudo mv motion-mmalcam.conf /etc/motion.conf
8. Type the following command and then press Enter:
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/motion
Steps 6–8 above move Motion into a system folder and change
its owner.
Configuring the Software
Before starting Motion, you should check its configuration
settings. When you start Motion with no command-line
arguments, it reads its configuration settings from the file /etc/
motion.conf. To open this file:
1. On the Application Launcher, click LXTerminal.
2. Type the following command and then press Enter:
nano /etc/motion.conf
There are many settings that you can change, but the key ones
are:
Setting Description
width The width of still images and video frames in
pixels.
height The height of still images and video frames in
pixels.
framerate The maximum number of frames to capture per
second.