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Is there any hope?

I use motion on several raspberry pis for streaming cams and doing motion detection (storing pics or vids). I would NEVER EVER consider to use it on my firewall/router....

Again: why not?

I created a new jail and used zoneminder from the binary package.

I investigated ZoneMinder and didn't like it even before I installed it because in my Linux machine it requires 94 additional packages. 265 MB. In comparison with that, Motion is tiny and it is working pretty well in my Linux machine. There is a learning curve, but it's paid off. My problem now is I can't leave this machine running 24/7. But the firewall machine already is. So yes, the firewall machine would be the perfect new home for Motion in my case.

I don't know about the memory usage, but the IO on disk is not much if you calibrate it adequately and get rid of the false positives so it will ever store very few photos.

On the other hand, I'm also investigating the possibility of installing Motion in IPFire. OpnSense seems very difficult for my limited knowledge, IPFire is definitely easier. I appreciate the help anyway. OpnSense seems to be an excellent firewall, I just may not be adequately trained to use it.

Why not?

Thank you for the honesty. I really appreciate it.

It is a little off-putting though. Can I at least install the package I want and never update OpnSense again until my last day on Earth so that nothing breaks? Is that possible, or is there some kind of requirement to update OpnSense from time to time?

Thank you.
Can you please inform me what "build it from the source tree" means exactly? I mean, the procedure? I know a lot about Linux but nothing about FreeBSD except whatever I type in the terminal pretending it's Linux and it works by coincidence.

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.