Motion - takes snapshot without motion detected

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Published on 2014-06-08T21:26:41Z Indexed on 2014/06/08 21:29 UTC
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I've been installed the standard motion 3.2.12 package on debian 7.5. I would like to get snapshot ONLY when motion is detected, but it still saves a picture every second without any activity in front of the camera.

I'm using a TENVIS JPT3815W IP camera

motion.conf

here is my configuration file

setup_mode off
target_dir /media/videos/log/webcam

netcam_url http://webcam/snapshot.cgi
netcam_tolerant_check on
netcam_userpass admin:alpha1237

# Output frames at 1 fps when no motion is detected and increase to the
# rate given by webcam_maxrate when motion is detected (default: off)
webcam_motion off
output_all off

# detection settings 1-255 default 32
noise_level 50
# Maximum framerate for webcam streams (default: 1)
webcam_maxrate 25
pre_capture 0

framerate 25
gap 30
locate on
mail [email protected]

text_right "FRONT CAMERA %Y/%m/%d - %T"
text_double on

ffmpeg_cap_new on
ffmpeg_cap_motion on
ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4

output_motion off
snapshot_interval 0

# Quality of the jpeg (in percent) images produced (default: 50)
quality 90


# Restrict webcam connections to localhost only (default: on)
webcam_localhost off

# Limits the number of images per connection (default: 0 = unlimited)
# Number can be defined by multiplying actual webcam rate by desired number of seconds
# Actual webcam rate is the smallest of the numbers framerate and webcam_maxrate
webcam_limit 0

Issue

when I start motion images are stored in /media/videos/log/webcam nearly every second. I hjust want to get images when a motion is detected and the according video clip

Any idea where the configuration fails ?

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