Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. Or in other words, it can detect motion.
Find out more about motion at https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion
Find out more about the snap of motion at https://github.com/ogra1/motion-snap
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap can be installed on elementary OS from the command line. Open Terminal from the Applications launcher and type the following:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install motion-ogra, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install motion-ogra --edge
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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