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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Gray images only. Unceasing motion detection.
(Kinney Baughman)
2. Re: stream_maxrate (tosiara)
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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 13:31:16 -0400
From: Kinney Baughman <baughma...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Gray images only. Unceasing motion
detection.
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Good eye!
I inevitably do that at least once when working up a new config file.
Thank you for your persistence!
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 12:04 PM tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Great that you have resolved your original issue. Now also check your
> area_detect as I suspect it is not working as you expect
> Change:
> area_detect value 456789
> To:
> area_detect 456789
>
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 7:00 PM Kinney Baughman <baughma...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes. I am.
>>
>> But Mr. Dave's suggestion seems to have done the trick.
>>
>> I changed vid_control_params to:
>>
>> vid_control_params brightness=100,contrast=100,saturation=100,hue=100
>>
>> And now I have a picture. Now to adjust all those parameters until I get
>> them where they're supposed to be.
>>
>> Thanks for the response.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 11:45 AM tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Are you using area_detect?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019, 18:22 Kinney Baughman <baughma...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Stick a fork in me. I'm done. Time to get some help.
>>>>
>>>> I've been using motion for 10+ years. But the latest upgrade to 4.2.2
>>>> has killed it for me.
>>>>
>>>> I can get motion running. It finds the camera. It then proceeds to
>>>> find motion several times a second. I have an "event_end" script that
>>>> sends me an email with a link to the video sitting on the web root
>>>> designated for motion. Within minutes I have hundreds of emails.
>>>>
>>>> I'm running motion on an Odroid. Using the latest version of Arch
>>>> Linux. The web cam is my tried and true Logitech C260 that I have to
>>>> modprobe uvcvideo in order to use. But I've been doing that since forever.
>>>>
>>>> What have I tried? What haven't I tried.
>>>>
>>>> I carefully compared my old config file with the new one and tried to
>>>> make all the necessary changes. Maybe I missed something or left an old
>>>> directive in and can't see it. But if I did, motion isn't barking about it
>>>> in the log files.
>>>>
>>>> I've run in debug mode until I'm blue in the face. Daemon mode and not
>>>> daemon mode.
>>>>
>>>> After making sure the camera is detected, the palette setting is the
>>>> obvious thing to check. The camera seems to be capable of 2 different
>>>> palettes, YUYV and MJPG. I've tried both. By not specifying the palette,
>>>> I've let motion pick the one it wants.
>>>>
>>>> I've swapped out the camera with another of the same vintage. Nothing
>>>> changes.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe my camera is no longer compatible? After 10+ years, is that
>>>> possible?
>>>>
>>>> For readability, I'm attaching, instead of pasting, the top of my
>>>> motion.log file running in debug mode. Maybe someone can see something I'm
>>>> missing.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your attention.
>>>>
>>>>
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:27:37 +0300
From: tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] stream_maxrate
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Which exact stream framerate do you get if you comment out both
stream_motio and stream_maxrate?
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 5:11 AM Ronnie McMaster <ronnie.mcmas...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> It is and does accept the number 2. No errors on start, nor in the logs.
> On 8/11/19 1:21 PM, tosiara wrote:
>
> stream_motion accepts only "on" or "off", not a framerate
>
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019, 21:38 Ronnie McMaster <ronnie.mcmas...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It was defaulting to the FPS set for recording. I had stream_maxrate set
>> to 1. This limitation was being ignored until I set stream_motion to a
>> framerate. Though once setting stream_motion to 2, which is working,
>> stream_maxrate seems to be ignored now, as the stream is staying the same
>> when motion is detected. I am not bothered since this is the only camera
>> this server is monitoring.
>>
>>
>> On 8/11/19 10:21 AM, tosiara wrote:
>>
>> stream_maxrate has default value "1". How could it be ignored?
>> "stream_motion on" will force FPS to 1 only when there is no active
>> event. During the event framerate will increase to the one specified in
>> maxrate
>>
>> I'd suggest you to try to troubleshoot your original issue. Motion should
>> stream 1 fps by default
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:09 PM Ronnie McMaster <
>> ronnie.mcmas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes. All of the other inputs were working properly. I did find the fix
>>> myself, though. *stream_motion* has to be set in this latest version of
>>> Motion in order for the *stream_maxrate* to be recognized.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ronnie McMaster
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 12:53 PM Thomas Drebert <dreb...@web.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> not that I know, but do you start motion with the correct config file?
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>> Thomas D.
>>>>
>>>> Am Do., 8. Aug. 2019 um 20:26 Uhr schrieb Ronnie McMaster
>>>> <ronnie.mcmas...@gmail.com>:
>>>> >
>>>> > I have stream_maxrate set to 1 FPS, but that is being ignored when
>>>> streaming to remote devices. Is there another setting that needs to be
>>>> enabled/adjusted?
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > Ronnie
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