USB webcam on Hassio

Installation Home Assistant OS
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thanks, I install that addon, but still I cant open/start my Raspberry Pi camera. I cant see anything from it. Should I change something?

{
  "config": "",
  "videodevice": "/dev/video0",
  "input": 0,
  "width": 640,
  "height": 480,
  "framerate": 2,
  "text_right": "%Y-%m-%d %T-%q",
  "target_dir": "/share/motion",
  "snapshot_interval": 30,
  "snapshot_name": "%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S-snapshot",
  "picture_output": "on",
  "picture_name": "%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S-%q",
  "webcontrol_local": "on",
  "webcontrol_html": "on"
}
23

here’s mine.
{
“config”: “”,
“videodevice”: “/dev/video0”,
“input”: 0,
“width”: 640,
“height”: 480,
“framerate”: 2,
“text_right”: “%Y-%m-%d %T-%q”,
“target_dir”: “/share/motion”,
“snapshot_interval”: 3,
“snapshot_name”: “latest”,
“picture_output”: “off”,
“picture_name”: “%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S-%q-motion-capture”,
“webcontrol_local”: “on”,
“webcontrol_html”: “on”
}

i turned picture_output off because otherwise it filled my sdcard up. now i just use the last taken image to display which obviously overwrites itself.

did you forward the port in your router?

24

plus did you add this to your configuration.yaml?

Blockquote

camera:

  • platform: local_file
    name: kitchen cam
    file_path: /share/motion/lastsnap.jpg

Blockquote

also can’t remember if I manually had to add the motion folder or if the addon makes that directory. just check at /share/ and if motion dir is missing then just create one.

25

Is the HerrHofrat addon still working for other people? Not showing up in Hassio for me

26

i can’t remember exactly when it all changed but it won’t work on the latest release of hassio because the missing architecture code. just use mine for now :wink:

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27

I’ve followed the above instructions. My USB camera is working, recording in the ‘/share/motion’ folder…, etc.
However I have 2 questions:

  • how to get the image displayed on-line in ‘hassio’ ?,
  • how to stop recording in ‘/share/motion’ ? (because my SD-card is going full).
28

I created a fork of the addon which exposes the MJPEG feed, but there is some issue and it doesn’t display on the HA front-end. Maybe you will have better luck https://github.com/robmarkcole/hassio-addons/tree/master/motion

Re managing the SD card, you should use automations with https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/folder/

29

O.K. Interesting - I’ll try…
The option ‘periodic snapshot’ is interesting.
Is it possible to have the snapshots saved to external USB stick with ex. 8GB size?
Then if full - start overwriting old snapshots?

30

that certainly will have come up on the forums before

31

OK, so I must read more about that…

32

Hello. is this motion add-ons still working? I am having the same trouble here.
I want to display the USB cam which is plugged in to my raspberry pi 3 to the lovelace user interface. Any idea how? Thanks

33

can this be done on hassos?

34

Does Motion add-on support PTZ cameras like Obsbot?

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