help with motion and Logitech QuickCam Messenger Plus

[fvdw]

i will sent you a pm

[wrumph]

fvdw,

Can you pm me the temp fix for the webcam?

-Will

[fvdw]

yes of course, no problem I will sent you a pm

[wrumph]

worked great thanks! Is there an easy way to password protect the video stream?

[fvdw]

I don't know from my memory but the program used is "motion" homepage with documentation see here http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome

[Jocko]

Hi wrumph

it seems that you can't require authentication on the video stream (but only with the control channel)

But you can bypass this at least for the remote access :whistle

You must set the proxy feature on the web server.

So, first do not forward the port 8090 with your ISP router (like this only from your LAN you have a direct access without authentication).

Create a file proxy.conf in the folder /etc with this content:

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LoadModule proxy_module /usr/modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/modules/mod_proxy_http.so
<Location /mywebcam >
    ProxyPass http://localhost:8090
</Location>

Now the conf files used by the apache server is also in the folder \etc. So you must edit all files httpd.x (0,1,2...)but also httpd.conf to remove '#' at the last line of the these files

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#Include /etc/proxy.conf

Restart fully the server

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killall httpd
/usr/bin/httpd -f httpd.conf -d /etc

Now, if you have forwarded the port 80 (or 443 for https protocol), the url to get the video stream will be http://yourPublicIP/mywebcam. You can replace yourPublicIP by your DDNS. (your public IP is the WAN IP provided by your ISP).

If you are not yet authenticated, the browser will ask you to login. The login is the usual login for the web interface : admin-nas. If you have also authorized some user accounts to use the console, their login can be used.

So it's not an easy way :mrgreen:

[wrumph]

Thanks for the info Jocko. I noticed that motion implemented a patch for stream authentication. Is there anything non standard that would brake if I where to apply this patch?

http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/ ... mAuthPatch

[Jocko]

Thank for this information.

To install the patch you need of course to compile again motion...

Currently, motion version is patched for the firmware and so you can not do directly.

[fvdw]

I will try to recompile motion with this patch included

[fvdw]

I recompiled motion with the patches and using a the latest development version. It has now the ability to request authentication to view the web stream
Small point, they chaged the names of several parameters in the configuration file. As a result the default one that we use doesn't start motion properly. So besides the new motion binary you alos need to replace the configuration file.

It will be included in the next release or send me a pm if you cannot wait..