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this is a great app, very simple to install and use. my question is does it save the pics somewhere as a file which we need to erase or just overwrites or is just a stream.

are you using api calls, or just pulling from /dev/video?

danesh - you can edit the config file to enable saving of images based on time or motion sensing. I usually save them to the mmc card. You could also automate a script to ftp/sftp/scp them to your website if need be.

schmots - standard v4l2 video capture. Nothing special to make it work on the N800 except for tweaking a few lines in the source to ignore device capture errors.

Thanks for porting this app... works great!
I was curious about the 320x240 picture resolution, because I saw a comment on the web that the camera was VGA, 640x480. I changed width and height in motion.conf to those values, but motion quits before starting the web server. I then tried CIF, 352x288, and that works. Any idea why 640x480 doesn't work? The camera API example at http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/h..._api_bora.html is configured at 640x480.

It could be a simple issue with the app still being beta-level for V4L2 support. I will continue to compile new svn builds and put them online. Next step is a .install package to make things easier for you guys.

Sources please? Or even better, a garage project..

This is very cool! Finally something that gives me some hope that the n800 camera will be usable down the road.

@Moonshine
Thanks for digging this up! Didn't know about it! Nice All it needs is some interface so we don't need to start it from the terminal... Hmm that shouldn't even be hard... we'll see...

This would be awesome if it were a .deb with interface -- I am to think to get things going to well from the command line, I guess...

Great work konfoo fellah! This is brilliant. I just remembered why I love the N800 so much. It's a new toy every day.

Seriously, your work compiling this is much appreciated. Thanks!