How to enable web control over port 7999 in motioneyeOS??

[Ed Strange]

Hi,

i just spend the last 3 hours editing different config files, reinstalling etc... nothing... only my nerves are blank.... after update it make constantly reboots now...  Grrrrr

Can someone please tell me how to enable control over port 7999 ?? I need to send http commands to enable and disable motion.

That would make my day

[Ed Strange]

So this is normally the way to do it:

logged in via ssh to RPi0 with motionEyeOS installed,

cd /data/etc
nano motion.conf

find the line that starts with webcontrol_localhost and make sure it is set to false and not to on.
press ctrl-x, y, enter [this exits editor, confirms save, confirms file name].

But that still doesn't work on my zero W. It only shows me this test without links:

Motion 4.2.2 Running [1] Camera
1

[Rolf Pedersen]

On 11/25/19 5:17 AM, Ed Strange wrote:

So this is normally the way to do it:

logged in via ssh to RPi0 with motionEyeOS installed,

cd /data/etc
nano motion.conf

find the line that starts with webcontrol_localhost and make sure it is set to false and not to on.
press ctrl-x, y, enter [this exits editor, confirms save, confirms file name].

But that still doesn't work on my zero W. It only shows me this test without links:

Motion 4.2.2 Running [1] Camera
1

FWIW,

[root@pi0w etc]# grep webcontrol motion.conf  
webcontrol_interface 1
webcontrol_parms 2
webcontrol_localhost off
webcontrol_port 7999

[root@pi0w etc]# grep localhost camera-1.conf
stream_localhost off

I would use off as opposite of on, don't know if it makes a difference.  Having struggled with the localhost on setting blocking access from the network, I've learned to look in a variety of conf files, including for the camera(s), motion.conf, and motioneye.conf.  I've seen true vs. false and on vs. off, and configure thus.  That has helped me.

[Ed Strange]

It seems to be a different problem as discussed here at the bottom:

https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/issues/1778#issuecomment-558478989