adding webcam string to ipfire

This is useful as it contains examples useful in bringing up a webcam server, as well as uploading info to dropbox.

Also demonstrates adding to pakfire (ipfire module)


https://ict.ken.be/add-webcam-stream-to-ipfire

Things to remember

• Ipfire default web interface is on http port 81 or https port 444
• Add .1 to version in /opt/pakfire/etc/pakfire.conf and do pakfire update --force so you can install addons from testing branch
• Use pakfire to install motion
• Motion by default streams on port 2500, but you can set this in /etc/motion.conf
• Needed to add a video user and video group
• The boot file /etc/init.d/motion needs some adjustments to allow starting motion at boot time
• Set firewall rule correct to forward the port: From any to firewall red for tcp on port 2500 for webcam

Posts that helped me on the way

• http://www.chriswpage.com/tag/motion-detection/
• http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionGuide
• http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/configuration/ipfire/pakfire/testing
• https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader

Adjustments to motion configuration
/etc/motion.conf

mkdir -p /var/motion/cam1
chown -R video: /var/motion/cam1
mkdir -p /var/run/motion/
chown video:video /var/run/motion/
chmod 755 /var/run/motion/
loadproc sudo -u video /usr/bin/motion

Move snapshots to dropbox
/etc/motion.conf

on_picture_save /etc/init.d/dropbox/up-snapshot.sh %f %Y%m%d %H%M%S

up-snapshot.sh

/etc/init.d/dropbox/du.sh upload $1 cam1/$2/$2-$3-snapshot.jpg && rm -f $1

Sync dropbox to main website on ipfire
sync.sh

rm -rf /srv/web/localhost/html/
/etc/init.d/dropbox/du.sh download html/ /src/web/localhost/
find /srv/web/localhost/html -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find /srv/web/localhost/html -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;