How can I change the storage directory for a camera?

[James]

I know how to input a new directory in the GUI. But when I try to change the location from the default /var/lib/motioneye/Camera1 to something like /home/<user>/<drive>, it doesn't seem to be able to save anything to that directory.

[StarbaseSSD]

Are you running the motionEye as root, or did you change it to run as a user? If you changed the user that you are running motionEye as, does that user have RW access to the folder you are trying to write to?

[StarbaseSSD]

Also, is the path /home/<user>/<drive> local or network?

[James]

I didn't change anything from default. I installed it using sudo on my main user account if that matters.

The /home/<user>/<drive> path is local, but on a different drive than the OS.

[StarbaseSSD]

In the setting, general, what do you have for:

motionEye Version
Motion Version
OS Version

What does 

>ls -la /home/<user tab show for permissions for the <drive> folder? For example one of my /home/<user>/local shows:
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi   pi    4096 Nov 20  2021 local (755)

for my NAS storage the permissions are

drwxrwxrwx 2 root root    0 May 21 06:26 Camera3  (777)

[James]

motionEye Version 0.43.1b1
Motion Version 4.6.0
OS Version Ubuntu 22.04

ls -la /home/toast/4tbBigBoy

total 52
drwxrwxr--+  7 toast  toast   4096 Jun 30 02:21 .
drwxrwx---+ 29 toast  toast   4096 Jul  3 10:05 ..
drwxrwxr-x   2 motion motion  4096 Jun 30 02:21 cctv
drwxr-xr-x  13 toast  toast   4096 Jun  5 16:41 DDriveClone
drwx------   2 toast  toast  16384 May  6 20:30 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   5 toast  toast  16384 Jun  3 01:15 Movies
drwxr-xr-x  12 toast  toast   4096 Jun 16 02:01 TVShows

This drive has my media library, but I'm wanting to put the motion camera folders into the cctv folder here

[StarbaseSSD]

If you do:

sudo chmod 777 -R /home/toast/4tbBigBoy/cctv

a) does it stick (give drwxrwxrwx as permissions)

if you do another ls -la /home/toast/4tbBigBoy

b) does it work?

[James]

I got the permissions to stick, but motion still wont save to that folder. It also shows the Disk Usage as 0.0/0.0GB 0%.

ls -la /home/toast/4tbBigBoy
total 52
drwxrwxr--+  7 toast  toast   4096 Jun 30 02:21 .
drwxrwx---+ 29 toast  toast   4096 Jul  3 10:05 ..

drwxrwxrwx   5 motion motion  4096 Jul  3 12:14 cctv

ls -la /home/toast/4tbBigBoy/cctv
total 20
drwxrwxrwx  5 motion motion 4096 Jul  3 12:14 .
drwxrwxr--+ 7 toast  toast  4096 Jun 30 02:21 ..
drwxrwxrwx  2 toast  toast  4096 Jul  3 12:14 Camera1
drwxrwxrwx  2 toast  toast  4096 Jul  3 12:14 Camera2
drwxrwxrwx  2 toast  toast  4096 Jul  3 12:14 Camera3

[StarbaseSSD]

If you are editing the Camera1 info, the path for root directory should be:

/home/toast/4tbBigBoy/cctv

[James]

It's showing the same thing when I set it to that path.

[StarbaseSSD]

What does

df -h

show for the path for your 4tbBigBoy????

[James]

df -h /home/toast/4tbBigBoy
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1       3.6T  815G  2.7T  24% /home/toast/4tbBigBoy

[StarbaseSSD]

try

getfacl -E /home/toast/4tbBigBoy

getfacl -E /home/toast/4tbBigBoy/cctv

getfacl -E /home/toast/4tbBigBoy/cctv/Camera1

Out of curiosity, what is your 4tb drive formatted as?

[mario bruno grondana]

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie to Linux. I take advantage of this open post for the same problem.
I installed Motioneye on Docker on Debian 12. I would like the video storage to be an ext4 USB disk which Debian sees as /media/usbdisk.
I log in as user, but I have RW permissions on the external disk and I am in the sudoers group.
In the Camera File Storage section on Motioneye I write as path /media/usbdisk, but Motioneye writes to /var/lib/docker/overlay2/b97c14acacefff5556cbb6e4542b770f6255cb3d6755e4806a745e18c40da959/diff/media/usbdisk. How can I indicate the exact route? Thank you and sorry for my english

[James]

$ getfacl -E /home/toast/4tbBigBoy
getfacl -E /home/toast/4tbBigBoy/cctv
getfacl -E /home/toast/4tbBigBoy/cctv/Camera1

getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: home/toast/4tbBigBoy
# owner: toast
# group: toast
user::rwx
user:plex:rwx
group::r-x
mask::rwx
other::r--

getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: home/toast/4tbBigBoy/cctv
# owner: motion
# group: motion
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::rwx

getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: home/toast/4tbBigBoy/cctv/Camera1
# owner: toast
# group: toast
user::rwx
group::rwx

This drive is formatted with ext4.

[StarbaseSSD]

I have a feeling that it's related to group and other permissions below:

# file: home/toast/4tbBigBoy
# owner: toast
# group: toast
user::rwx
user:plex:rwx

group::r-x <<<***<<<***
mask::rwx
other::r-- <<<***<<<***

To fix, try:
sudo chmod -R 777 / home/toast/4tbBigBoy

and do the

getfacl -E /home/toast/4tbBigBoy

again...

[James]

Just FYI, the first command you gave me was malformed. It started running that command recursively from the root of the filesystem because of the space between / and home/toast/4tbBigBoy. I probably should've caught that before running it but now I can't use sudo because of this error:

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /home/toast/4tbBigBoy
sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is world writable
sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is world writable
sudo: /etc/sudoers is world writable
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: error initializing audit plugin sudoers_audit

Initial googling says that I need to reboot into recovery mode to fix this, but I also welcome any suggestions you have.