Skip to content

Report Motion Issue

Calin Crisan edited this page Mar 13, 2017 · 1 revision

In order to provide necessary details for a bug report to the Motion Project, it is recommended that you run motion manually, separately, outside of motionEye.

First you'll need to log in to your motionEyeOS and run some shell commands. Stop the motionEye server:

/etc/init.d/S85motioneye stop

Then change the directory to where motion configuration files live:

cd /data/etc

And then just start the motion daemon by hand, redirecting the output/error to a file:

motion -c motion.conf -d 6 -n &> /data/output/motion.log

Now you can use your favorite SFTP client to collect the log file as well as your motion configuration files:

  • /data/output/motion.log
  • /data/etc/motion.conf
  • /data/etc/thread-*.conf

Make sure you remove any sensitive data (i.e. passwords, IP addresses and whatnot) from these files before attaching them to the issue you're going to create.