---
name: "motion-control"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "motion"
version: "3.2.3-2.1"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/motion-control"
---

# motion-control(1)

Controlling Motion via xml-rpc

## NAME

motion-control - Controlling Motion via xml-rpc

## SYNOPSIS

**motion-control**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly motion-control.

Since version 3.1.12 Motion comes with a new exciting feature which is the ability to control Motion while it is running.

This means that Motion now has a built in http server called xmlrpc-httpd. This listens on a port specified by the new 'control\_port' config file option. The control protocol is called xml-rpc. It is the job of motion-control to control these new control features of Motion.

See section "Controlling Motion via xml-rpc" in /usr/share/doc/motion/motion\_guide.html for further information.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

## AUTHORS

Jeroen Vreeken (pe1rxq@amsat.org), Folkert van Heusden, Kenneth Lavrsen (kenneth@lavrsen.dk)

This minimal manual page was written by Frederik Dannemare \<frederik@dannemare.net\> for the Debian project.