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    From Adrian@[email protected] to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Thu Sep 10 23:42:12 2026
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    I'm running motion on a Pi, but would also like to be able to take the occasional still from the same camera. It seems that I can't run the
    rpicam-* software at the same time whilst motion is running. Does
    anyone know of a means of doing this.

    TIA

    Adrian
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@[email protected] to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Fri Sep 11 03:20:24 2026
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    On Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:42:12 +0100, Adrian wrote:

    I'm running motion on a Pi, but would also like to be able to take
    the occasional still from the same camera. It seems that I can't run
    the rpicam-* software at the same time whilst motion is running.
    Does anyone know of a means of doing this.

    Does PipeWire help? I understand it is supposed to do for both video
    and audio what PulseAudio could only do for audio.
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  • From Adrian@[email protected] to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Fri Sep 11 14:21:30 2026
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    In message <117vs1o$2i5d3$[email protected]>, Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <[email protected]d> writes
    On Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:42:12 +0100, Adrian wrote:

    I'm running motion on a Pi, but would also like to be able to take
    the occasional still from the same camera. It seems that I can't run
    the rpicam-* software at the same time whilst motion is running.
    Does anyone know of a means of doing this.

    Does PipeWire help? I understand it is supposed to do for both video
    and audio what PulseAudio could only do for audio.

    Thanks, I'll have a look.

    I should have mentioned (in case it's relevant), that I'm running a Pi3
    with Trixie, and the video is done using libcamify and motion.

    Adrian
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