Video surveillance systems

Presentation

The hardware

You can find everything in the field of surveillance cameras at more or less affordable prices, they are generally supplied with dedicated proprietary software necessarily running under Windows, the fact of running it under Linux does not always allow you to take full advantage of all their functionalities, we will be satisfied with the standard and all the software intelligence being deported in the supervision software.

Without wanting to advertise for this or that brand, I was looking for an IP camera to place it outside, I first made my choice on the Reolink brand , but I was unable to make it work under Linux and even under Windows! And nothing is done on the part of this manufacturer for Linux users , so return to sender and I fall back on the Annke brand .

Annke C500 I51DL Camera and POE Adapter

Annke C500 I51DL Outdoor Station Camera

In either case these IP cameras are powered via the Ethernet cable (PoE Power over Ethernet) and this requires a router or a special adapter like the one you can see in the photo above.

Small downside, I had to go through Windows at least once to activate it with the home software by setting a password and the IP address but then all the configuration can be done from a browser under Linux by simply typing the IP address in the URL bar. The screenshots below were made with Firefox on Linux/Mageia 9.

Once you have entered your login, you come across the real-time viewing page which does not work under Linux but that is not a problem because you have no use for it.

On the other hand, the configuration page works perfectly and that is the point, we have access to all the possible parameters from the browser.

You can also choose an encoding using HEVC. Visualization is done simply by typing in a shell

ffplay rtsp://admin:password@192.168.2.110

I also have in my device an Annke WPT500 I51CP camera , the configuration is done under a mobile under Android with Annke Sight , it will be necessary to create an account, configure it by creating a password then by connecting it to the correct Wi-Fi network. It will be visible under Linux with the command ffplay rtsp://admin:password@192.168.2.138:554/ch0_1.264 You no longer need the application on Android , which you can then uninstall. This camera only generates streams with the HEVC codec , we will see later how this can be important. WPT500 I51CP Outdoor Station Camera

Stream a camera's video stream in rtsp

If your camera is not equipped with a basic rtsp compatible video stream server , you can set up one that can work with a simple webcam. I chose mediamtx which is much more than a simple rtsp server. The official website is https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx, where you can get the latest release that you unzip by typing

tar xvfz mediamtx-1.8.5.tar.gz

this gives the mediamtx-1.9.3 directory , the sources are compiled with the go language which must have been previously installed ( golang-bin package on my mageia). In the directory we type successively

go generate ./...
CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build .

This will give a mediamtx binary that you can then move to /usr/local/bin. We will also copy the configuration file mediamtx.yml to /usr/local/etc . We first launch it without necessarily being root

mediamtx

here are the traces

2024/10/25 16:45:46 INF MediaMTX v0.0.0
2024/10/25 16:45:46 INF configuration loaded from /usr/local/etc/mediamtx.yml
2024/10/25 16:45:46 INF [RTSP] listener opened on :8554 (TCP), :8000 (UDP/RTP), :8001 (UDP/RTCP)
2024/10/25 16:45:46 INF [RTMP] listener opened on :1935
2024/10/25 16:45:46 INF [HLS] listener opened on :8888
2024/10/25 16:45:46 INF [WebRTC] listener opened on :8889 (HTTP), :8189 (ICE/UDP)
2024/10/25 16:45:46 INF [SRT] listener opened on :8890 (UDP)

we launch the video stream with ffmpeg with /dev/video0 as source which corresponds to the webcam on an rtsp address corresponding to the machine on which mediamtx is launched

ffmpeg -f v4l2 -framerate 24 -video_size 640x480 -i /dev/video0 -f rtsp -rtsp_transport tcp rtsp://tetiaroa.kervao.fr:8554/monflux

This is what the server returns

2024/10/25 16:47:16 INF [RTSP] [conn 192.168.2.16:39506] opened
2024/10/25 16:47:16 INF [RTSP] [session 23cd16d2] created by 192.168.2.16:39506
2024/10/25 16:47:16 INF [RTSP] [session 23cd16d2] is publishing to path 'monflux', 1 track (MPEG-4 Video)

you can view the video stream from any machine on the network by typing

ffplay rtsp://tetiaroa.kervao.fr:8554/monflux

here is the server trace

2024/08/17 09:31:01 INF [RTSP] [conn 192.168.2.16:55664] opened
2024/08/17 09:31:01 INF [RTSP] [session bd9fc103] created by 192.168.2.16:55664
2024/08/17 09:31:01 INF [RTSP] [session bd9fc103] is reading from path 'monflux', with UDP, 1 track (MPEG-4 Video)

The webcam can be integrated and used in the video surveillance tools presented below.

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Zoneminder

Facility

You must start by creating a mysql database by typing:

mariadb -u root -p < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql

we check if the base is correctly created, it is simply called zm and we create a privileged user zmuser on the zm base with the password zmpass which will obviously have to be changed

mariadb -u root -p

here is the result

Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 25
Server version: 11.4.2-MariaDB Source distribution

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]> show databases;
+---------------------+
| Database |
+---------------------+
| MyMusic82 |
| MyMusic83 |
| MyVideos121 |
| MyVideos131 |
| digikam |
| digikam_similarites |
| digikam_vignettes |
| digikam_faces |
| information_schema |
| mysql |
| performance_schema |
| phpmyadmin |
| roundcubemail |
| spamassassin |
| syncstorage_rs |
| sys |
| tokenserver_rs |
| zm |
+----------------------+
18 rows in set (0.096 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> use mysql;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed
MariaDB [mysql]> CREATE USER 'zmuser' IDENTIFIED BY 'zmpass';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.087 sec)

MariaDB [mysql]> GRANT ALL ON zm.* TO 'zmuser'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.201 sec)

now I created the file /usr/lib/systemd/system/zoneminder.service which will contain

[Unit]
Description=ZoneMinder CCTV recording and security system
After=network.target mariadb.service httpd.service
Requires=mariadb.service httpd.service

[Service]
User=apache
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl start
ExecReload=/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl reload
ExecStop=/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Please note that the user must correspond to the owner of the Apache httpd process . The service is activated by typing

systemctl enable zoneminder

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The configuration file /etc/zm/zm.conf looks like this

# ============================================================
#
# ZoneMinder Base Configuration
#
# ============================================================
#
# *** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE ***
#
# To make custom changes to the variables below, create a new configuration
# file, with an extension of .conf, under the /etc/zm/conf.d
# folder, containing your desired modifications.
#

# Path to installed data directory, used mostly for finding DB upgrade scripts
ZM_PATH_DATA=/usr/share/zoneminder

# Path to ZoneMinder binaries
ZM_PATH_BIN=/usr/bin

# Path to ZoneMinder libraries (none at present, for future use)
ZM_PATH_LIB=/usr/lib64

# Path to ZoneMinder configuration (this file only at present)
ZM_PATH_CONF=/etc/zm

# Path to ZoneMinder web files
ZM_PATH_WEB=/usr/share/zoneminder/www

# Path to ZoneMinder cgi files
ZM_PATH_CGI=/usr/share/zoneminder/cgi-bin

# Username and group that web daemon (httpd/apache) runs as
# user and group owner of the apache daemon httpd
ZM_WEB_USER=apache
ZM_WEB_GROUP=apache

# ZoneMinder database type: n/a far only mysql is supported
ZM_DB_TYPE=mysql

# ZoneMinder database hostname or ip address and optionally port or unix socket
# Acceptable formats include hostname[:port], ip_address[:port], or
# localhost:/path/to/unix_socket
# the name of the server on which the mariadb server is running
ZM_DB_HOST=mariadb-serveur

# ZoneMinder database name
ZM_DB_NAME=zm

# ZoneMinder database user
ZM_DB_USER=zmuser

# ZoneMinder database password
# the password as defined in mariadb
ZM_DB_PASS=zmpass

# SSL CA certificate for ZoneMinder database
ZM_DB_SSL_CA_CERT=

# SSL client key for ZoneMinder database
ZM_DB_SSL_CLIENT_KEY=

# SSL client cert for ZoneMinder database
ZM_DB_SSL_CLIENT_CERT=

# Do NOT set ZM_SERVER_HOST if you are not using Multi-Server
# You have been warned
#
# The name specified here must have a corresponding entry
# in the Servers tab under Options
ZM_SERVER_HOST=

Another file /etc/zm/conf.d/01-system-paths.conf which will contain

# ============================================================
#
# ZoneMinder System Paths Configuration
#
# ============================================================
#
# This config file contains the variables previously found under Options -> Paths
#
# *** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE ***
#
# To make custom changes to the variables below, create a new configuration
# file, with an extension of .conf, containing your desired modifications.
#

# Full path to the folder events are recorded to.
# The web account user must have full read/write permission to this folder.
# directory where the events are recorded
# the owner of the httpd process must be the owner, it is apache
ZM_DIR_EVENTS=/media/motion/events

# Foldername under the webroot where ZoneMinder looks for optional sound files
# to play when an alarm is detected.
ZM_DIR_SOUNDS=sounds

# Full path to the folder where exported archives are stored
# The web account user must have full read/write permission to this folder.
# directory where the archives are exported
# the apache user must own the directory
ZM_DIR_EXPORTS=/var/tmp/zm

# ZoneMinder url path to the zms streaming server
ZM_PATH_ZMS=/zm/cgi-bin/nph-zms

# Full Path to ZoneMinder's mapped memory files
# The web account user must have full read/write permission to this folder.
ZM_PATH_MAP=/dev/shm

# Full Path to ZoneMinder's socket folder
# The web account user must have full read/write permission to this folder.
# sockets directory
# the apache user must own it
ZM_PATH_SOCKS=/var/run/zm

# Full path to ZoneMinder's log folder
# The web account user must have full read/write permission to this folder.
# logs directory
# the apache user must own it
ZM_PATH_LOGS=/var/log/zm

# Full path to ZoneMinder's swap folder
# The web account user must have full read/write permission to this folder.
ZM_PATH_SWAP=/var/tmp/zm

# Full path to optional arp binary
# ZoneMinder will find the arp binary automatically on most systems
ZM_PATH_ARP="/usr/sbin/arp"

#Full path to shutdown binary
ZM_PATH_SHUTDOWN="/sbin/shutdown"

# Path to FFmpeg binary
ZM_PATH_FFMPEG="/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg"

It will be necessary to ensure that the apache user is the owner of certain directories necessary for the operation of zoneminder

chown -R apache:apache /var/run/zm
chown -R apache:apache /var/log/zm
chown -R apache:apache /var/lib/zoneminder
chown -R apache:apache /usr/share/zoneminder/www
chown -R apache:apache /var/cache/zoneminder
chown -R apache:apache /etc/zm

Incidentally I created the following link

ln -s /var/cache/zoneminder/ /usr/share/zoneminder/www/cache

you will then need to modify the configuration of the Apache httpd server in the file /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd/conf, first of all the list of useful and necessary modules

LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so
LoadModule authn_core_module modules/mod_authn_core.so
LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so
LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule authz_core_module modules/mod_authz_core.so
LoadModule access_compat_module modules/mod_access_compat.so
LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule socache_shmcb_module modules/mod_socache_shmcb.so
LoadModule reqtimeout_module modules/mod_reqtimeout.so
LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so
LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule version_module modules/mod_version.so
LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
LoadModule unixd_module modules/mod_unixd.so
LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule cgid_module modules/mod_cgid.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule php_module modules/libphp.so

(...)

# the owner of the apache/httpd daemon

User apache
Group apache

(...)

#zoneminder specific directives
<Directory "/usr/share/zoneminder/www">
   Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride All
   Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory "/var/cache/zoneminder">
    Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory "/usr/share/zoneminder/cgi-bin">
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory "/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api">
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
   RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
   RewriteBase /zm/api
</Directory>

<Directory "/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/app">
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule ^$ webroot/ [L]
   RewriteRule (.*) webroot/$1 [L]
   RewriteBase /zm/api
</Directory>

<Directory "/usr/share/zoneminder/www/api/app/webroot">
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
    RewriteBase /zm/api
</Directory>

#alias zoneminder in this specific order
ScriptAlias ​​/zm/cgi-bin "/usr/share/zoneminder/cgi-bin"
Alias ​​/zm/cache "/var/cache/zoneminder"
Alias ​​/zm "/usr/share/zoneminder/www"

We will also ensure that the time zone variable in the /usr/local/apache2/conf/php.ini file is correctly initialized

date.timezone = Europe/Paris

we restart Apache httpd to take into account the update of these last two files

systemctl httpd restart

and we launch zoneminder by typing

systemctl start zoneminder

and this is what the command returns

systemctl status zoneminder

● zoneminder.service - ZoneMinder CCTV recording and security system
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/zoneminder.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2024-08-09 16:03:47 CEST; 11s ago
    Process: 3570 ExecStart=/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 3578 (zmdc.pl)
      Tasks: 5 (limit: 9239)
     Memory: 91.5M
        CPU: 2.077s
     CGroup: /system.slice/zoneminder.service
             ├─3578 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/bin/zmdc.pl startup
             ├─3606 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl --filter_id=1 --daemon
             ├─3610 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl --filter_id=2 --daemon
             ├─3616 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/bin/zmwatch.pl
             └─3620 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/bin/zmstats.pl

Aug 09 16:03:44 ultra.kervao.fr systemd[1]: Starting zoneminder.service...
Aug 09 16:03:47 ultra.kervao.fr systemd[1]: Started zoneminder.service.

Use

Here is the main screen with a camera added from the Add Camera command with Modect mode , meaning it will detect movements and create an event for each one.

It will be necessary to define the video source of the view, by putting the path

Then you have to proceed by trial and error for the rest of the parameters. Now when an event is detected the area(s) concerned will be indicated

Detect motion with motionplus

Facility

The motionplus program is a motion detection utility from various video sources, webcam, video stream, IP camera, wifi or whatever else available on the network. It integrates an httpd server where videos can be viewed in real time, you can also view events, that is to say any movement that has been recorded. The use of a database is necessary to manage events.

The official site is https://motion-project.github.io/ where you can find the original motion program and a revised version called motionplus presented here on this page, which you can decompress by typing

tar xvfz motionplus-release-0.2.2.tar.gz

this gives the motionplus-master directory we will first retrieve the lib64microhttpd-devel and lib64camera-devel packages, we will see later how to use an Apache httpd server. We return to the directory in which we type

autoreconf -fiv;./configure --with-ffmpeg=/usr/local/lib --with-mariadb=/usr/local/mysql

The with-ffmpeg option points to the directory where the ffmpeg libraries I compiled are located to prevent it from using the system version.This is the result

   **************************
      Configure status      
      motionplus 0.2.2
   **************************

CPPFLAGS: -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1 -I/usr/include/webp -I/usr/include/libcamera -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/opencv4 -I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql/ -D_REENTRANT  

LIBS: -pthread -ljpeg -lmicrohttpd -lwebpmux -lwebp -lsharpyuv -lcamera -lcamera-base -L/usr/local/lib -lavutil -lavformat -lavcodec -lswscale -lavdevice -lopencv_gapi -lopencv_stitching -lopencv_alphamat -lopencv_aruco -lopencv_barcode -lopencv_bgsegm -lopencv_bioinspired -lopencv_ccalib -lopencv_dnn_objdetect -lopencv_dnn_superres -lopencv_dpm -lopencv_face -lopencv_freetype -lopencv_fuzzy -lopencv_hdf -lopencv_hfs -lopencv_img_hash -lopencv_intensity_transform -lopencv_line_descriptor -lopencv_mcc -lopencv_quality -lopencv_rapid -lopencv_reg -lopencv_rgbd -lopencv_saliency -lopencv_shape -lopencv_stereo -lopencv_structured_light -lopencv_phase_unwrapping -lopencv_superres -lopencv_optflow -lopencv_surface_matching -lopencv_tracking -lopencv_highgui -lopencv_datasets -lopencv_text -lopencv_plot -lopencv_ml -lopencv_videostab -lopencv_videoio -lopencv_ximgproc -lopencv_video -lopencv_xobjdetect -lopencv_objdetect -lopencv_calib3d -lopencv_imgcodecs -lopencv_features2d -lopencv_dnn -lopencv_flann -lopencv_xphoto -lopencv_photo -lopencv_imgproc -lopencv_core -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/ -lmariadb -lsqlite3 -lpulse -pthread -lpulse-simple -lasound -lfftw3

LDFLAGS:


OS: linux-gnu
pthread_np: no
pthread_setname_np: yes
pthread_getname_np: yes
XSI error: no
webp support: yes
V4L2 support : yes
libcamera support : yes
FFmpeg support: yes
  libavformat version: 61.1.100
OpenCV: yes
  version: 4.6.0
SQLite3 support: yes
MYSQL support: no
PostgreSQL support: no
MariaDB support: yes
ALSA support: yes
PulseAudio support: yes
FFTW support: yes

Install prefix: /usr/local

make

then as root make install. Then we create the motionplus database

mariadb -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 10952
Server version: 11.4.2-MariaDB Source distribution

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]> create database motionplus;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.001 sec)

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Now we will modify the configuration file, a default motionplus-dist.conf configuration file has been created under /usr/local/etc/motionplus/ we rename it motionplus.conf. Below you will find the modifications that have been made

;*************************************************
;***** Camera
;*************************************************
device_name
device_id
target_dir /emile/photo/motion

The target_dir variable points to where snapshots and videos will be stored, I placed it in the directory tree of my Apache server so that they can be visible.

(...)

;*************************************************
; Device config files - One for each device.
;*************************************************
camera /usr/local/etc/motionplus/camera1.conf
camera /usr/local/etc/motionplus/camera2.conf
camera /usr/local/etc/motionplus/camera3.conf

Definition of the cameras that will be used and that will be described in the files mentioned above

(...)

;*************************************************
;***** Scripts
;*************************************************
on_event_start /usr/local/bin/motionmail
on_event_end

script to be launched if there is an event in progress. The script simply contains

#!/bin/bash
mail -s “Motion event” olivier.hoarau@funix.org

(...)

;*************************************************
;***** Picture
;*************************************************
picture_output off
picture_filename %v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S-%q

;*************************************************
;***** Movie
;*******************************************
movie_output on
movie_max_time 120
movie_quality 45
movie_container mp4
movie_filename %v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S

for each event it is a video using the mp4 container (and the x265 codec) which will be used, you must set picture_output to on to have snapshots

(...)

;*************************************************
;***** Database
;******************************************************

database_type mariadb
database_dbname motionplus
database_host mariadb-server
database_port 3306
database_user root
database_password password

These last directives allow access to the motionplus database. The software does not integrate an email or SMS alert system by default, however we have the on_motion_detected parameter which will allow you to launch a script that can make this alert.

Now for a secure connection with password and TLS encryption we will add the following lines

;***** Web Control
;*************************************************
webcontrol_port 8080
webcontrol_localhost off
webcontrol_parms 3
webcontrol_auth_method digest
webcontrol_authentication user:motdepasse
webcontrol_tls on
webcontrol_cert /etc/ssl/public/apache.crt
webcontrol_key /etc/ssl/apache/apache.key

I used the personal certificate and key defined here.

For more details about the configuration file, see this page https://motion-project.github.io/motionplus_config.html

We now define the camera configuration files, example below with an IP camera accessible via rtsp and a webcam.

; /usr/local/etc/motionplus/camera1.conf
;
; This config file was generated by motionplus 0.2.2

;*************************************************
; Configuration options specific to camera 1
;*************************************************

;*************************************************
;***** Camera
;*************************************************
device_name MyCam1
device_id 101

;*************************************************
;***** Source
;*************************************************
netcam_url rtps://admin:password@192.168.2.110

;*************************************
;***** Image
;*************************************************
width 1280
height 720

;*************************************************
;***** Overlays
;*************************************************
text_left CAMERA 1

;*************************************************
;***** Movie
;*************************************************
movie_filename CAM01_%t-%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S

and the file for the second camera

; /usr/local/etc/motionplus/camera2.conf
;
; This config file was generated by motionplus 0.2.2

;*************************************************
; Configuration options specific to camera 2
;*************************************************

;*************************************************
;***** Camera
;*************************************************
device_name Patio
device_id 102

;*************************************************
;***** Source
;*************************************************
v4l2_device /dev/video0

;*************************************************
;***** Image
;*************************************************
width 352
height 288

;*************************************************
;***** Overlays
;*************************************************
text_left Camera2
text_right Patio\n%Y-%m-%d\n%T-%q

;*************************************************
;***** Movie
;*************************************************
movie_filename CAM02_%t-%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S

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Now we launch motionplus, the owner of the process must be able to write in the directory designated by target_dir (avoid root...). Here is the result

Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][00:motionplus] conf_process: Processing config file /usr/local/etc/motionplus/motionplus.conf
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][00:motionplus] conf_edit_stream_preview_method: Invalid stream_preview_method combined
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][00:motionplus] conf_process: Processing config file /usr/local/etc/motionplus/camera1.conf
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][00:motionplus] conf_process: Processing config file /usr/local/etc/motionplus/camera2.conf
Oct. 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][00:motionplus] conf_process: Processing config file /usr/local/etc/motionplus/camera3.conf
Oct. 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][00:motionplus] log_init: Logging to syslog
Oct. 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][00:motionplus] log_init: MotionPlus 0.2.2 started
Oct. 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][00:motionplus] log_init: Using log type (ALL) log level (NTC)
Oct. 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][00:motionplus] mytranslate_init: Language: English
Oct. 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][STR][00:motionplus] webu_init_webcontrol: Starting webcontrol on port 8080
Oct. 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][STR][00:motionplus] webu_init_webcontrol: Started webcontrol on port 8080
Oct. 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ENC][00:motionplus] motpls_av_init: libavcodec version 61.3.100
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ENC][00:motionplus] motpls_av_init: libavformat version 61.1.100
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][VID][00:ml00:camera-sud] netcam_start: Opening Netcam
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][VID][02:ml02:Piece2] netcam_start: Opening Netcam
oct. 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][00:motionplus] main: Motionplus pid: 1331263
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][VID][01:ml01:Piece1] netcam_start: Opening Netcam
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][05:nc05:Piece2] netcam_handler: Norm: Camera handler thread [5] started
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][02:ml02:Piece2] mlp_ring_resize: Resizing buffer to 4 items
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][01:ml01:Piece1] mlp_ring_resize: Resizing buffer to 4 items
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][06:nc06:Piece1] netcam_handler: Norm: Camera handler thread [6] started
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][05:nc05:Piece2] netcam_connect: Norm: Camera (Piece2) connected
Oct. 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][05:nc05:Piece2] netcam_connect: Norm: Netcam capture FPS is 15.
Oct. 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][05:nc05:Piece2] netcam_connect: Norm: Unable to determine the camera source FPS.
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][06:nc06:Piece1] netcam_connect: Norm: Camera (Piece1) connected
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][06:nc06:Piece1] netcam_connect: Norm: Netcam capture FPS is 15.
Oct 25 17:09:33 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][06:nc06:Piece1] netcam_connect: Norm: Unable to determine the camera source FPS.
Oct 25 17:09:35 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][00:ml00:camera-sud] netcam_ntc:
Oct 25 17:09:35 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][00:ml00:camera-sud] netcam_ntc: ******************************************************
Oct 25 17:09:35 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][00:ml00:camera-sud] netcam_ntc: The network camera is sending pictures at 0x0
Oct 25 17:09:35 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][00:ml00:camera-sud] netcam_ntc: resolution but config is 1280x720. If possible change
Oct. 25 17:09:35 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][00:ml00:camera-sud] netcam_ntc: the netcam or config so that the image height and
Oct. 25 17:09:35 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][00:ml00:camera-sud] netcam_ntc: width are the same to lower the CPU usage.
Oct 25 17:09:35 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][00:ml00:camera-sud] netcam_ntc: ******************************************************
Oct 25 17:09:35 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][00:ml00:camera-sud] netcam_ntc:
Oct. 25 17:09:35 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][00:ml00:camera-sud] mlp_ring_resize: Resizing buffer to 4 items
Oct. 25 17:09:35 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][03:nc03:camera-sud] netcam_handler: Norm: Camera handler thread [3] started
Oct. 25 17:09:35 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][02:ml02:Piece2] mlp_init: Camera 103 started: motion detection Enabled
Oct. 25 17:09:35 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][01:ml01:Piece1] mlp_init: Camera 102 started: motion detection Enabled
Oct 25 17:09:36 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][03:nc03:camera-sud] netcam_connect: Norm: Camera (camera-sud) connected
Oct 25 17:09:36 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][03:nc03:camera-sud] netcam_connect: Norm: Netcam capture FPS is 21.
Oct. 25 17:09:36 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][NET][03:nc03:camera-sud] netcam_connect: Norm: Camera source is 20 FPS
Oct. 25 17:09:37 ultra.kervao.fr motionplus[1331263]: [NTC][ALL][00:ml00:camera-sud] mlp_init: Camera 101 started: motion detection Enabled

You will notice that when passing in front of the webcam the videos accumulate under /emile/photo/motion, it works!! The log will give the following line to each movement identified as an event.

[NTC][ALL][ml01:MyCam2] mlp_detected_trigger: Motion detected - starting event 1

The application has a web interface visible at the URL http://localhost:8080/. We see the different views in real time

Configuration is possible from the interface

Events are accessible via Recordings

First of all, for motionplus to be launched via systemd, we will ensure that the daemon parameter is set to off in the configuration file