Implements the Motion project in a docker container. Motion is a software motion detector that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. It is developed in the Motion-Project at GitHub

See the Motion Guide for information about setting up the motion config file.

This container uses docker volumes to set up motion and control motion's behavior.

You can test it out like this:

sudo docker run --rm \
 -v '/path/to/localconfig:/etc/motion' \
 -it jwater7/motion

or run it in daemon mode:

sudo docker run -d --name=my-motion --restart=always \
 -v '/path/to/localconfig:/etc/motion' \
 jwater7/motion

A sample docker-compose:

  my-motion:
    image: jwater7/motion
    container_name: my-motion
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/localconfig:/etc/motion"
    environment:
      - "TZ=America/Los_Angeles"
    restart: always