This file is: motion_kill.txt

First created: Sunday 15th May 2011, 16:30 PT, AD
Last updated:  Sunday 15th May 2011, 16:35 PT, AD




How to stop (kill) the motion process






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In one terminal window, start motion by typing motion as root...

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cd /home/anne/motion_videos

root@server:~/motion_videos# motion
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /home/anne/.motion/motion.conf
[0] Motion 3.2.11 Started
[0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3412993 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3415808
[0] Thread 1 is from /home/anne/.motion/motion.conf
[1] Thread 1 started
[1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo"
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.11 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] cap.card: "UVC Camera (046d:0994)"
[1] cap.bus_info: "usb-0000:00:1d.7-3"
[1] cap.capabilities=0x04000001
[1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] - STREAMING
[1] Supported palettes:
[1] 0: MJPG (MJPEG)
[1] 1: YUYV (YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV))
[1] index_format 6 Test palette YUYV (320x240)
[1] Using palette YUYV (320x240) bytesperlines 640 sizeimage 153600 colorspace 00000008
[1] found control 0x00980900, "Brightness", range 0,255 
[1] 	"Brightness", default 128, current 128
[1] found control 0x00980901, "Contrast", range 0,255 
[1] 	"Contrast", default 32, current 32
[1] found control 0x00980902, "Saturation", range 0,255 
[1] 	"Saturation", default 32, current 32
[1] found control 0x00980913, "Gain", range 0,255 
[1] 	"Gain", default 0, current 82
[1] mmap information:
[1] frames=4
[1] 0 length=153600
[1] 1 length=153600
[1] 2 length=153600
[1] 3 length=153600
[1] Using V4L2
[1] Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
[1] Started stream webcam server in port 8081
[1] File of type 8 saved to: /home/anne/motion_videos/01-20110515160506.swf
[1] File of type 1 saved to: /home/anne/motion_videos/01-20110515160506-01.jpg
[1] File of type 1 saved to: /home/anne/motion_videos/01-20110515160507-00.jpg
[1] File of type 1 saved to: /home/anne/motion_videos/01-20110515160507-01.jpg
[1] File of type 1 saved to: /home/anne/motion_videos/01-20110515160508-00.jpg
[1] File of type 8 saved to: /home/anne/motion_videos/02-20110515160713.swf
[1] File of type 1 saved to: /home/anne/motion_videos/02-20110515160713-01.jpg
[1] File of type 1 saved to: /home/anne/motion_videos/02-20110515160714-00.jpg
[1] File of type 1 saved to: /home/anne/motion_videos/02-20110515160714-01.jpg
[1] File of type 8 saved to: /home/anne/motion_videos/03-20110515160837.swf
[1] File of type 1 saved to: /home/anne/motion_videos/03-20110515160837-01.jpg


[0] httpd - Finishing
[0] httpd Closing
[0] httpd thread exit
[1] Thread exiting
[1] Calling vid_close() from motion_cleanup
[1] Closing video device /dev/video0
[0] Motion terminating
root@server:~/motion_videos# 

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In another terminal window:

anne@server:~$ sudo -s
[sudo] password for anne: 
root@server:~# ps -ef | grep motion
root      2113  2036  0 16:04 pts/0    00:00:00 motion
root      3161  3092  0 16:10 pts/1    00:00:00 grep motion
root@server:~# ps -ef | grep motion
root      2113  2036  0 16:04 pts/0    00:00:01 motion
root      4246  3092  0 16:16 pts/1    00:00:00 grep motion
root@server:~# kill 2113
root@server:~# pwd
/home/anne
root@server:~# 


NOTE, after the kill 2113 command was issued,
the first terminal window reported:

[0] httpd - Finishing
and etc as shown in the last lines of the first terminal window,
ending in "Motion terminating"


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After motion had terminated, I was then able to open the cheese application which then took over the Logitech Orbit camera.

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NOTICE: when motion first is started up, after a few lines it reports:
Thread 1 is from /home/anne/.motion/motion.conf

Therefore, the motion configuration file read is from
/home/anne/.motion/motion.conf

So if you update 
/home/anne/.motion/motion.conf
taking instructions from
http://www.annedawson.net/motion_manual.txt

you should be able to fine tune the camera according to your needs for video and photo capture of motion.

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