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Today's Topics:
1. Problem with change from night settings to day settings and
vice versa (Freek de Kruijf)
2. Re: video storage (prismb...@gmail.com)
3. Feature request: Detect connections lost to Camera and stop
recording (f...@gmx.net)
4. Car headlights and glitches (Tim Baker)
5. USB outdoor camera. (Adam Briggs)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2018 13:50:42 +0200
From: Freek de Kruijf <fr...@opensuse.org>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Motion-user] Problem with change from night settings to day
settings and vice versa
Message-ID: <6863694.cukG4qhQGu@eiktum>
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I have a Raspberry Pi 3B with Raspbian with a NoIR camera, in fact an infrared
sensitive camera, and use motion to look for unwanted visits.
I have the following settings in motion.conf, with which I have experimented
to find a more or less working system:
auto_brightness = on
brightness = 128
contrast = 128
saturation = 128
hue = 128
This gives me at night an image that shows the light of an infrared light
shining on objects in the image. Only "auto_brightness = on" did not give me a
proper image during the night.
It also gives me a proper image during the day.
However I have to restart motion in the morning and at nightfall, otherwise I
see a gray image without any details when the night becomes day or the day
becomes night.
It is not very difficult to schedule a restart at these times, but I wonder
how motion can do this for me.
At these times I do not need to change any settings, I just need a restart of
motion.
--
fr.gr.
member openSUSE
Freek de Kruijf
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 06:58:21 -0700
From: prismb...@gmail.com
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] video storage
Message-ID:
<cagd+p+ylvvvp-nw8bttcrzm6z5thpqbbrcgtasi8wt0wtkv...@mail.gmail.com>
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You might be able to utilize the SQL functionality that motion provides to
help achieve what you want.
On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 7:05 PM genius3000 <genius3000+motion@g3k.solutions>
wrote:
> Neither, Motion doesn't include any built-in space limiting currently.
> I use a script to check for files older than x days, delete them (and then
> remove empty folders). I use crontab to run this script once a day.
> You could also use the "on_movie_end" in Motion and check used space,
> dates, etc across your save directory.
>
> </genius3000>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Roberts <for...@n0sq.tech>
> To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 19:41
> Subject: [Motion-user] video storage
>
> I don't see anything in the config files for limiting storage space. Can
> limits be placed in the config files or is this hardwired into the
> application? If it's hardwired, then at what storage size does it cycle?
>
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 23:20:42 +0200
From: "f...@gmx.net" <f...@gmx.net>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Motion-user] Feature request: Detect connections lost to
Camera and stop recording
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Hi,
thx for sharing your project!
motion keep recording continuously even when a cam lost its connection.
After loosing connection motion records a Gray screen.
It is possible to implement continuously recording only when a camera is in
good connection state?
Best regards
Sebastian
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 22:47:49 +0100
From: Tim Baker <t...@tjbaker.co.uk>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Motion-user] Car headlights and glitches
Message-ID: <999c4d21-c636-4b90-9395-3507ffc3d...@tjbaker.co.uk>
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I?m using motion with a cheap SQ11 USB webcam on my Pi 2 Model B facing into
the garden.
Going well and I?ve reduced the amount of false positives a lot, but at night
car headlights shine through gaps in the hedge, and even with a mask.pgm it
seems to sometimes trigger it at night. Daytime, it?s fine.
Are there any settings that would help with this? The camera is behind a glass
window, and I think even though I?ve masked out the gaps in the hedge, I
suspect flare and refraction is causing ?movement? to the camera. The camera is
quite noisy, unsurprisingly given it?s cheap Chinese **??! hence the higher
noise level and noise tune. I?d rather not extend the mask as a lot of the
centre is already blacked out. The camera isn?t NOIR or anything, but I have
PIR lights outside which should light up, and seem to be good enough to show up
as motion on the cam.
I have these settings:
lightswitch 100
smart mask speed 10
threshold 10000
noise_level 256
noise_tune on
minimum_motion_frames 6
event_gap 30
stream_maxrate 30
stream_motion on
framerate 30
Also I get grey block glitches sometimes, but I?m guessing that?s either the
long 5m cable extension to the camera or the cheap camera, only running it at
720p as that?s the real resolution. Annoying but I can live with that?whereas
I?ve gotten the deluge of jpgs down to a slower stream now, but it would be
nice to have fewer at night.
But I?m new to motion, so any help would be appreciated. Thinking of upgrading
the camera and maybe Pi Zero at some point which would be cleaner and better,
but until then this is a good temp solution.
Tim
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 23:42:54 +0000 (UTC)
From: Adam Briggs <adbr...@yahoo.com>
To: Motion Discussion List <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Motion-user] USB outdoor camera.
Message-ID: <1458742893.2219139.1536536574...@mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, Has anyone used an outdoor USB camera with Motion?
Thanks,Adam.?
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