Report Motion Issue

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 motionEye machine and run some shell commands. Stop the motionEye server (using sudo if necessary):

systemctl stop motioneye  # for systemd 
/etc/init.d/motioneye stop  # for sysvinit

Then change the directory to where motion configuration files live:

cd /etc/motioneye

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

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

Now collect the log file as well as your motion configuration files:

• ~/motion.log
• /etc/motioneye/motion.conf
• /etc/motioneye/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.