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I installed motion to do live streaming with my webcam. Before this, I have tested the webcam with taking photo, it's working. I have configured the motion.conf and set stream_localhost to off.

When I access the ipaddress:8081, google chrome show site can't be reached. ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Please note that i have a wordpress site on the ipaddress port 80 (default). Is that the cause that i can't play live stream?

Please assist, thank you.

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Reset to default
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Be sure that motion service is running. If you run it as service (daemon) you can check it with following command:

sudo service --status-all

If you see a minus [-] sign in front of motion you must first start it with

sudo service motion start

Then you may see the streaming video.

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  • Hi, i have check the running service, but motion is not in the list. I have config the file etc/default/motion to set daemon to yes and start the service. Any idea?
    – hellojoshhhy
    Nov 14, 2016 at 5:52
  • If motion is not in the list, then it is not running. Can you post your config file? My motion.conf file is in /etc/motion/motion.conf. Is there anything in log file /var/log/motion.log or system default logfile?
    – Mubin Icyer
    Nov 14, 2016 at 9:06
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probably just this parameter to set off in motion.conf file to allow external connections :

# Restrict stream connections to localhost only (default: on)
stream_localhost off
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