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Is there any hope?

Hi. Nice to meet you.

First off, I want to say that I searched before asking. But it didn't help because searching for "ports" gets mixed up with TCP/IP ports in the search results, and because all matches I've found are rather old. I found one particular forum post that seems to imply that OpnSense used to work with ports but doesn't anymore. As a total newbie with FreeBSD and OpnSense, I decided to ask before I go ahead and format my computer and install OpnSense. I have it running as a VM for the time being just to get a first hand appraisal of it.

So I want something that is not in the Plugins or Packages list. But it's there in the FreeBSD ports.

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/multimedia/motion

and

https://github.com/opnsense/ports/tree/master/multimedia/motion

Can I have it? Is it installable? Is that safe in the sense that it's not going to make a mess of my OpnSense installation? Is it going to work? Are there any pitfalls?

Thank you for your attention.