diff --git a/srcpkgs/motion/patches/Fix-detection-of-sqlite3-when-cross-compiling.patch b/srcpkgs/motion/patches/Fix-detection-of-sqlite3-when-cross-compiling.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..62b7a6f9895
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/motion/patches/Fix-detection-of-sqlite3-when-cross-compiling.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+From d1a2397daa805b0acc965acf85dfdb7297ba6069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Fabrice Fontaine <fabrice.fontaine@orange.com>
+Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 20:25:51 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix detection of sqlite3 when cross-compiling
+
+Replace usage of AC_CHECK_FILE by test -f to check the existence of
+sqlite3.c as AC_CHECK_FILE does not work when cross-compiling
+
+Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fabrice.fontaine@orange.com>
+---
+ configure.ac | 10 +++-------
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git configure.ac configure.ac
+index f069ccc..0f18f08 100644
+--- configure.ac
++++ configure.ac
+@@ -460,16 +460,13 @@ else
+ 
+     # first we check to see if the sqlite3 amalgamation (sqlite3.c), is in with our source
+     # this is the prefered way to use sqlite
+-    AC_CHECK_FILE([sqlite3.c],
+-        [
++    if test -f sqlite3.c; then
+         SQLITE3_SUPPORT="yes"
+         VIDEO="$VIDEO sqlite3.o"
+         TEMP_LIBS="$TEMP_LIBS -ldl"
+         AC_DEFINE([HAVE_SQLITE3],1,[Define to 1 if you have SQLITE3])
+         AC_DEFINE([HAVE_SQLITE3_EMBEDDED],1,[Define to 1 if you have SQLITE3 embedded support])
+-        ]
+-        ,
+-        [
++    else
+         # if sqlite3.c is not found then we look for the shared library
+         AC_CHECK_LIB(sqlite3, sqlite3_open,
+             [
+@@ -478,8 +475,7 @@ else
+             AC_DEFINE([HAVE_SQLITE3],1,[Define to 1 if you have SQLITE3 shared library support])
+             ]
+         )
+-        ]
+-    )
++    fi
+ 
+     CFLAGS=$saved_CFLAGS
+     LIBS=$saved_LIBS
diff --git a/srcpkgs/motion/template b/srcpkgs/motion/template
index dfa0e0f2dab..173ab1aac9c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/motion/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/motion/template
@@ -1,32 +1,18 @@
-broken="ffmpeg 3.0"
-
 # Template file for 'motion'
 pkgname=motion
-version=3.2.12+20140318
-revision=3
+version=3.4.1
+revision=1
+wrksrc="motion-release-${version}"
 build_style=gnu-configure
-hostmakedepends="automake"
-makedepends="v4l-utils-devel zlib-devel"
+hostmakedepends="automake pkg-config"
+makedepends="v4l-utils-devel zlib-devel ffmpeg-devel"
 short_desc="A motion detector software"
 maintainer="Andrea Brancaleoni <miwaxe@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
-homepage="http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome"
-_commit=ad7e243fcaee500f67297305d9235556fb4270b9
-wrksrc="$pkgname-$_commit"
-distfiles="https://github.com/sackmotion/motion/archive/${_commit}.tar.gz"
-checksum=67e99398f0941012ee909a98673b9473b69780bf3b8a971594fcfa255ed4efeb
-
-if [ -z "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
-	configure_args="--enable-ffmpeg"
-	hostmakedepends+=" ffmpeg-devel"
-	makedepends+=" ffmpeg-devel"
-fi
+homepage="https://motion-project.github.io/"
+distfiles="https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/archive/release-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=0d1702c7958fd03b99bf4fdcb45d8e604864e5867034f825f2fc543e8be64549
 
 pre_configure() {
 	autoreconf -fi
 }
-
-post_install() {
-	mv $DESTDIR/usr/share/motion* $DESTDIR/usr/share/motion
-	mv $DESTDIR/usr/share/doc/motion* $DESTDIR/usr/share/doc/motion
-}