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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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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