Installing Motion on Ubuntu

Install motion:

sudo apt-get install motion

Enable motion to start at boot:

sudo nano /etc/default/motion

Find the line that says start_motion_daemon=no and change it to start_motion_daemon=yes.

Enable the stream to be viewed from other computers on the local network, and also make the output a little bigger:

sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf

Change the following values:

daemon on    
width 640     
height 480     
framerate 100     
stream_localhost off    

Reboot, and then go to http://localhost:8081 (or the IP address of the PC).