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You can ind the IP address of your Raspberry Pi by typing
/sbin/ifconfig | less
The output will look something like this:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d8:eb:97:18:16:ef
inet addr: 192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
Your IP address is the number provided after inet addr: , which in this case is 192.168.0.2 .
Software
You will be using a great piece of open-source software to do all of this called Motion. Motion
was founded by Jeroen Vreeken and has since had over 100 people contribute to the code. At
the time of this writing, Motion is being maintained by Kenneth Lavrsen and Angel
Carpintero at www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome . Installing
Motion requires that you run a command from the command prompt on your Raspberry Pi.
Unless you are familiar with assigning permissions in Linux, I recommend that you use the
root user and not the standard user for this project.
You can create the root user by typing
sudo passwd root
The system will prompt you for a password twice. After that is complete log in to your
Raspberry Pi using root as the username and the new password you just set.
After you are logged in as the root user, your command prompt should look like this:
root@raspberrypi:~#
If you have not done so recently, you should make sure that your Raspberry Pi is up to date
by typing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
hese updates will take some time to complete. You are now ready to install Motion. At the
command prompt type
sudo apt-get install motion