DNS-323 based home security camera

Quite some time ago, I bought a wireless IP camera from Amazon UK, intending to set it up at home as a DIY security camera. Whilst it was great value for money, the web based user interface was quite limited and basically I wasn't able to do what I wanted.

After some googling, I found out about 'motion', motion detection software, seemingly designed for the job. I figured if I could run 'motion' on my DNS-323, I could make a workable solution.

EasyN FS-613A-M136 Wireless Pan & Tilt IP Camera
Motion

Recently I got around to trying it, and am pleased with the results so far, his how I did it -

Download and install development tools (thanks fonz) necessary to build motion using -

wget http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/0.7/oabi/packages/
funpkg -i

for each of the packages below -

autoconf-2.68-oarm-2.txz
automake-1.11.3-oarm-1.txz
binutils-2.22-oarm-3.txz
gcc-4.5_20120202-oarm-1.txz
gcc-solibs-4.5_20120202-oarm-1.txz
libjpeg-8c-oarm-2.txz
linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0-oarm-2.txz
make-3.81-oarm-2.txz
mpfr-3.1.0-oarm-2.txz
uClibc-0.9.30.3-oarm-1.txz
uClibc-solibs-0.9.30.3-oarm-1.txz

Download motion source, configure, and make -

motion-3.2.12.tar.gz

./configure --without-v4l

make

A small patch afterwards, to get it to link properly -

gcc  -o motion motion.o conf.o draw.o jpegutils.o video.o video2.o video_common.o netcam.o netcam_ftp.o netcam_jpeg.o netcam_wget.o track.o alg.o event.o picture.o rotate.o webhttpd.o webcam.o  -lm  -ljpeg -lpthread

root@dlink-EEF76A:/mnt/HD_b2/tmp/motion-3.2.12# cat motion.conf 

netcam_url http://192.168.0.111:81/videostream.cgi?showlength=1
netcam_userpass admin:password
locate on

framerate 2

And voila -

root@dlink-EEF76A:/mnt/HD_b2/tmp/motion-3.2.12# ./motion -c motion.conf 

[0] Processing thread 0 - config file motion.conf

[0] Motion 3.2.12 Started

[0] Thread 1 is from motion.conf

[1] Thread 1 started

[1] Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items

Works nicely!