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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Increasing sensitivity (Adam Goryachev)
2. Re: motion daemon not starting (Kinney Baughman)
3. Re: Increasing sensitivity (tosiara)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 09:32:59 +1000
From: Adam Goryachev <mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Increasing sensitivity
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On 18/05/18 08:24, Jbyrnescu--- via Motion-user wrote:
> How about an infrared camera? That may help.
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone. So please excuse the mistakes.
>
>> On May 17, 2018, at 1:17 PM, James Allsopp via Motion-user
>> <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I've got motion working on my raspberry pi and it's great, but I'm trying to
>> use it as a baby monitor. It's a Logitech Webcam C270, but it's not really
>> sensitive enough in low light. Is there a way of altering the settings to
>> change the levels, so that the images appear brighter?
>>
>> Thanks
>> James
You could use the NoIR version of the RaspberryPi camera, and if you
still need better, add some IR lighting. Just make sure any light is
"indirect" so it's not shining directly at the baby, and/or use a
diffuser to help scatter the light.
Not sure how good it will get, but it works well for office areas which
are totally dark at night ;)
Regards,
Adam
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 19:58:41 -0400
From: Kinney Baughman <baughma...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motion daemon not starting
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On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Chris <motion_ch...@goxp.de> wrote:
> It looks like motion.service is systemd service.
> PClinux (as one of the few distros) does not use systemd. It uses
> initd, so the init script you mentioned before should be the one
> working for your OS.
>
I was going to say the same thing.
So it's curious that you a motion.service file on your system at all.
Which raises the question as to how it got there.
Did you use synaptic to install motion on your system? You said that you
did. But somehow you think you got an incomplete install out of it.
I've read back through this thread. You mention issuing this command:
"cp /usr/share/motion/examples/motion.init-Debian > /etc/init.d/motion"
Debian is a systemd distro and not an init.d system like PC Linux OS. I
don't understand how you have Debian anything on your system.
You also mention creating motion.conf file in a non-standard place along
with a couple other files.
You shouldn't have to do any of this.
It's beginning to look like you've mangled your installation. It just
shouldn't be this hard to get motion up and running.
Sometimes you just have to start all over instead of trying to fix what you
have. It's OK. It's happened to all of us. You've learned a lot in the
process and odds are you'll discover your mistake the second time around.
I recommend removing the motion install you have. Run whatever command
synaptic says run to delete/purge your motion install. Then delete all the
files and folders you created manually and start all over. Especially make
sure you clear out your init.d folder and sub-folders of all things
motion.
See what you can find in the PC Linux OS forums for motion and follow their
advice and stay away from advice from people who use systemd.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. But it'll be OK! :-) Live and learn.
Good luck.
> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 6:03 AM, Ralph Shamie <oldne...@att.net> wrote:
> > So, I copied my file motion.init-Debian to /etc/init.d/motion:
> >
> > [root@L6 ~]# cp /usr/share/motion/examples/motion.init-Debian
> > /etc/init.d/motion
> >
> > [root@L6 ~]# ls -al /etc/init.d/motion
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1324 May 15 21:26 /etc/init.d/motion*
> >
> > I have the feeling I need to change attributes on this file.
> Incidentally,
> > there is another file in the examples directory called
> >
> > motion.service:
> >
> > [Unit]
> >
> > Description=Motion daemon
> >
> > After=local-fs.target network.target
> >
> >
> > [Service]
> >
> > PIDFile=/var/run/motion.pid
> >
> > ExecStart=/usr//usr/bin/motion -n
> >
> > Type=simple
> >
> > StandardError=null
> >
> >
> > [Install]
> >
> > WantedBy=multi-user.target
> >
> > I don't know where that one would go. As far a directions on github, the
> > directions don't match the files in the PCLinuxOS repository.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Ralph
> >
> >
> >
> > On 05/15/2018 11:26 PM, Terry Parker wrote:
> >
> > You could try copying the file. You would probably be better off to
> download
> > the source code and compile and install that way. There are instructions
> on
> > how to do that, it's not very difficult.
> >
> > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:10 PM, Ralph Shamie <oldne...@att.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Terry,
> >>
> >> Thank you. I do not have a motion file in /etc/init.d. I am running
> PCLOS,
> >> which uses rpm files.
> >>
> >> Do you think I should try copying this file?
> >>
> >>
> >
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 07:30:15 +0300
From: tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com>
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Do you have any other camera that you can compare in the same environment?
If it is too dark - there will be no way to increase brightness without
cutting infrared filter and using extra infrared illumination
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:17 PM, James Allsopp via Motion-user <
motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got motion working on my raspberry pi and it's great, but I'm trying
> to use it as a baby monitor. It's a Logitech Webcam C270, but it's not
> really sensitive enough in low light. Is there a way of altering the
> settings to change the levels, so that the images appear brighter?
>
> Thanks
> James
>
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