I have a few questions about Motion-MMAL for the Raspberry Pi B+ model, running on Raspbian: Sorry if these are noob questions.
1) I want to disable the live stream capability completely; however, i can only find information on how to keep the live stream local
2) If I do not visit the local address for the live stream, is it still technically uploading data and live streaming?
I think if you comment out the webcam_port value in motion.conf then you will not be streaming. Default is 0 for disabled.
So motion will still be recording video if there is actual motion. Nobody will be able to view a live stream.