Dynamically Adding / Removing a Camera

[dsshap]

Hi - I want to confirm that there is no way to add a new camera to be monitored without affecting the RTSP connections of other cameras defined in ./motion/conf.d/cam_x.conf

Creating a new camera conf and issuing SIGHUP causes motion to disconnect and reconnect on all the RTSP connections. Which makes sense.

I havent been able to find an option to tell motion to start / stop monitoring an individual camera.

[genius3000]

You are correct, only issuing a SIGHUP to essentially restart motion or actually restarting motion will add or remove a camera.

[angrycoding]

Hi - I want to confirm that there is no way to add a new camera to be monitored without affecting the RTSP connections of other cameras defined in ./motion/conf.d/cam_x.conf

Creating a new camera conf and issuing SIGHUP causes motion to disconnect and reconnect on all the RTSP connections. Which makes sense.

I havent been able to find an option to tell motion to start / stop monitoring an individual camera.

Actually there is a way to achieve this. Create for example 6 configuration files for cameras, and set netcam_url to empty value in each of the files. Start motion with those configuration files. Then use webcontrol url to dynamically set / clear netcam_url. That is the way I do that in my setup and it works quite well without affecting other cameras.