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Today's Topics:
1. Re: motion detection not whole screen but just a specified
portion of the screen (Kinney Baughman)
2. Re: motion detection not whole screen but just a specified
portion of the screen (mylin)
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Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 12:32:46 -0400
From: Kinney Baughman <baughma...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motion detection not whole screen but just
a specified portion of the screen
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Right! Add a line like this to your motion.conf file:
mask_file /etc/motion/mask.pgm
You can, of course, place the mask file anywhere you want. But I keep mine
in my "/etc/motion" folder since I'm running motion as root.
If you're running as a normal user, you may want to place it in your user
folder somewhere.
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 5:24 PM, Joerg Weber <mot...@alcatraz.ath.cx> wrote:
> It is turned on by specifying the mask file. If you turn on 'setup mode'
> temporarily, you can verify that the mask is actually in use.
>
> Brgds Joerg.
>
>
> 1. Juni 2018 22:11 Uhr, "mylin" <my...@ix.netcom.com
> <%22mylin%22%20%3cmy...@ix.netcom.com%3E>> schrieb:
>
> >> turn the setup feature on to make sure motion recognizes the file as a
> mask file
>
> How do you turn the mask feature on?
>
> Thanks.
> Martin
>
>
> On 18-06-01 03:14 PM, Kinney Baughman wrote:
>
> If you add a mask file, turn the setup feature on to make sure motion
> recognizes the file as a mask file.
> If it doesn't, it'll throw an error.
> That motion was *not* recognizing my mask file escaped me for longer than
> I want to admit.
> My advice is to take one of the jpg's issued by motion and use it as a
> base file from which to create the mask. Follow the instructions in the
> guide.
> I made one from scratch using the exact same dimensions as the motion
> files I was capturing, edited in GIMP and motion didn't like it.
> I followed the same process with a motion generated file and I was fine.
> YMMV.
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 2:51 PM, mylin <my...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> So is this where and how I added it to the conf file?
>
> # PGM file to use as a sensitivity mask.
> # Full path name to. (Default: not defined)
> ; mask_file value
> mask_file /home/martin/motion_mask/motion_mask.pgm
>
>
>
> On 18-06-01 02:29 PM, mylin wrote:
>
> Yup, I just found that same web link on how to do this.
>
> http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigOptionMaskFile
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> On 18-06-01 01:20 PM, Terry Parker wrote:
>
> Create a mask file:
> http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigOptionMaskFile
> also area_detect is an option:
> http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigOptionAreaDetect
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 11:37 AM, mylin <my...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Normally motion detects anything that moves or changes anywhere that is
> viewing on the cam.
>
> Is there way to configure it so that only a specific area or size of the
> viewing will detect motion?
>
> Thanks.
> Martin
>
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Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 22:34:53 -0400
From: mylin <my...@ix.netcom.com>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motion detection not whole screen but just
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Thanks for the tip. I'll keep it in mind for checking if it is picking
up only the masker area or not.
Thanks.
Martin
On 18-06-02 12:37 PM, Kinney Baughman wrote:
> When trying to figure out what motion is, or is not, picking up on as
> motion, I find? it helpful to turn this option on as well:
>
> locate_motion_mode on
>
> If you see motion outside of your "mask" zone, then you know your mask
> file isn't working.
>
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 5:24 PM, Joerg Weber <mot...@alcatraz.ath.cx
> <mailto:mot...@alcatraz.ath.cx>> wrote:
>
> It is turned on by specifying the mask file. If you turn on 'setup
> mode' temporarily, you can verify that the mask is actually in use.
>
> Brgds Joerg.
>
>
> 1. Juni 2018 22:11 Uhr, "mylin" <my...@ix.netcom.com
> <mailto:%22mylin%22%20%3cmy...@ix.netcom.com%3E>> schrieb:
>
> >> turn the setup feature on to make sure motion recognizes
> the file as a mask file
>
> How do you turn the mask feature on?
>
> Thanks.
> Martin
>
>
> On 18-06-01 03:14 PM, Kinney Baughman wrote:
>> If you add a mask file, turn the setup feature on to make
>> sure motion recognizes the file as a mask file.
>> If it doesn't, it'll throw an error.
>> That motion was *not* recognizing my mask file escaped me for
>> longer than I want to admit.
>> My advice is to take one of the jpg's issued by motion and
>> use it as a base file from which to create the mask. Follow
>> the instructions in the guide.
>> I made one from scratch using the exact same dimensions as
>> the motion files I was capturing, edited in GIMP and motion
>> didn't like it.
>> I followed the same process with a motion generated file and
>> I was fine.
>> YMMV.
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 2:51 PM, mylin <my...@ix.netcom.com
>> <mailto:my...@ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
>>
>> So is this where and how I added it to the conf file?
>>
>> # PGM file to use as a sensitivity mask.
>> # Full path name to. (Default: not defined)
>> ; mask_file value
>> mask_file /home/martin/motion_mask/motion_mask.pgm
>>
>>
>>
>> On 18-06-01 02:29 PM, mylin wrote:
>>> Yup, I just found that same web link on how to do this.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigOptionMaskFile
>>>
>>> <http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigOptionMaskFile>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 18-06-01 01:20 PM, Terry Parker wrote:
>>>> Create a mask file:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigOptionMaskFile
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigOptionMaskFile>
>>>> also area_detect is an option:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigOptionAreaDetect
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigOptionAreaDetect>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 11:37 AM, mylin
>>>> <my...@ix.netcom.com <mailto:my...@ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Normally motion detects anything that moves or
>>>> changes anywhere that is viewing on the cam.
>>>>
>>>> Is there way to configure it so that only a
>>>> specific area or size of the viewing will detect
>>>> motion?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Martin
>>>>
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