Welcome to the home of Motion, a software motion detector. It is a wiki so you can collaborate and contribute to almost any page. You are required to register first. You need a valid email address but it will not be visible or accessible to others unless you add it to your user page yourself.

Documentation

• Motion Guide - A very detailed online documentation
• Frequently Asked Questions

Download

• Downloads / SVN

Support

• Support Requests
• Bug Reports
• Feature Requests
• Mailing List
• FreeNode IRC

• Working Devices
• User Feedback
• Affiliated Business

Development

• Motion Patches - contribute your modification and see what others have shared

• Related Projects (incl video4linux loopback device)

• Technology
• Road Map
  • Motion Rearchitecture Discussion, Motion Watchdog, Extend Replace Conversion Specifiers Discussion, Motion Plugin Index, VideoForLinuxTwoDiscussion

• Motion at Sourceforge - for file releases.

• Motion Http API new for 3.2, XML RPC API old for 3.1
• Motion Tracking

• Miscellaneous Information - Information that does not fit in any other bucket

What is Motion?

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; in other words, it can detect motion.

The program is written in C and is made for the Linux operating system. Motion is a command line based tool whose output can be either jpeg, ppm fies or mpeg video sequences. Motion is strictly command line driven and can run as a daemon with a rather small footprint.

Motion is the perfect tool for keeping an eye on your property, keeping only those images that are interesting.

See the list of features to learn more about what Motion can do. View examples of images created by Motion. Or see examples of Motion in real life.

Motion download files are hosted at Sourceforge.

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