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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">I had this working</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri"> fine</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">in June, but not so much today.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">The setup is mostly like what is outlined here:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://iiternal.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-cheap-surveillance-camera-using.html"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">http://iiternal.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-cheap-surveillance-camera-using.html</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Things look fine on the RPi side</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri"> (the date is wrong):</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion.conf</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] Motion 3.2.12 Started</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] Created process id file /var/run/motion/motion.pid. Process ID is 2088</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] Motion running as daemon process</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3482368 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3478785</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] Thread 1 is from /etc/motion/motion.conf</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Thread 1 started</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo"</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] cap.card: "Microsoft® LifeCam VX-2000"</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] cap.bus_info: "usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3.4"</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] cap.capabilities=0x04000001</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] - STREAMING</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Config palette index 8 (YU12) doesn't work.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Supported palettes:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] 0: YUYV (YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV))</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] 1: MJPG (MJPEG)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Selected palette YUYV</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] motion-httpd/3.2.12 running, accepting connections</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Test palette YUYV (320x240)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Using palette YUYV (320x240) bytesperlines 640 sizeimage 153600 colorspace 00000000</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] found control 0x00980900, "Brightness", range -16,16</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] #011"Brightness", default -8193, current 0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] found control 0x00980901, "Contrast", range 1,32</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] #011"Contrast", default 57343, current 16</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] found control 0x00980902, "Saturation", range 0,60</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] #011"Saturation", default 57343, current 18</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] found control 0x00980903, "Hue", range -45,45</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] #011"Hue", default -8193, current 0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] found control 0x00980910, "Gamma", range 100,200</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] #011"Gamma", default 61432, current 150</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] mmap information:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] frames=4</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] 0 length=153600</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] 1 length=153600</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] 2 length=153600</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] 3 length=153600</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Started stream webcam server in port 8081</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">I can use wget on my</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri"> desktop computer (win7-64) and see the connection and a trickle of data:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Lucida Console">$ wget 192.168.0.3:8081</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Lucida Console">--2013-09-20 22:35:19-- <A HREF="http://192.168.0.3:8081/">http://192.168.0.3:8081/</A></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Lucida Console">Connecting to 192.168.0.3:8081... connected.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Lucida Console">HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Lucida Console">Length: unspecified [multipart/x-mixed-replace]</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Lucida Console">Saving to: `index.html'</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Lucida Console"> [ <=> ] 130,974 2.95K/s</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Nothing shows up when I try to connect with Chrome.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">I am thinking the issue is with the 2.9K/s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri"> data transfer rate.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">pi@raspberrypi /var/log $ ifconfig</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:27:eb:3a:de:a1 </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri"> inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri"> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri"> RX packets:8888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri"> TX packets:9888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri"> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri"> RX bytes:504663 (492.8 KiB) TX bytes:7587363 (7.2 MiB)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">Any suggestions?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Calibri">---> Paul</FONT></SPAN></P>
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