Initialization of network cameras (ESP32-CAM)

[josefmoellers]

Hi,

I'm planning to use a few ESP32-CAMs with motion.

Before I actually connect to them, I'd like to initialize them, especially I' like to set the resolution to 800x600.
Is there a built-in method to do that, eg by specifying a program to be run first, or do I have to put that into eg the systemd service file?

Thanks in advance,

Josef

[Mr-Dave]

Your title is for "network camera" but when I google ESP32 cameras I see something a bit more like a PI camera. If you've set it up as a network camera, then Motion doesn't have any readily available functionality to execute a pre-connect setup script.

If however the camera is supported by libcamera, then you could use that functionality to setup the camera. (Note that you'd have to build Motion from source to get the libcamera functionality since it isn't in a release yet)

[josefmoellers]

So, what I take from this is that motion does not have an initialization mechanism and I'll put that into the systemd's service file.
It might even be better because motion uses the files in /etc/motion/conf.d to detect the cameras available and the program specified as the ExecPreStart can detect which cameras are actually available, configure them and put an appropriate file in /etc/motion/conf.d before actually starting motion.
Thanks anyway,
Josef