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1. Re: Getting an Equal Sign (=) into on-Screen Text (John Vaccaro)
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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:23:15 -0500
From: John Vaccaro <jvacc...@gmail.com>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Getting an Equal Sign (=) into on-Screen
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Hello;
My Bash code appends a plus, minus or equal sign to indicate the
direction of change in the atmospheric pressure. The plus and minus
signs display just fine, The equal sign does not display. I'm using %3D
as the symbology to be interpreted by motion as an equal sign.
Has anyone else encountered this feature ;-) My code logs the exact
string that curl feeds to Motion and everything interprets correctly
except the equal sign. The percent sign (Hex %25) also is not displayed.
Screen grab:
Log snippet:
*john@arach:~/Dropbox/Code/motionwx$ tail -7 motionwx.log **
*
/Overcast%2055F%20Humidity%3A55%25\nWind%20Northwest@{3}mph%20Press%3A30.08%22%3D//
//Old Pressure Reading: 30.08//
//Pressure Change: %3D=//
//New Pressure Reading:30.08//
//removed 'motionwx.lck'//
//November 27, 2020 - 20:02:07? motionwx (PID:1100338) update of WX to
send to Motion server FINISHED/
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All the Best?
/John /
On 11/18/20 4:36 AM, tosiara wrote:
> Try to update to 4.3.2
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 1:21 AM John Vaccaro <jvacc...@gmail.com
> <mailto:jvacc...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello;
>
> Any update on where this bug stands in the list of priorities and
> when a fix might be expected?
>
> If anyone has found a workaround that will let me display the
> percent sign (%) in the text overlays, I'd be pleased to hear it.
>
> --
>
> All the Best?
>
> /John /
>
> On 10/20/20 7:17 AM, tosiara wrote:
>> When using curl to communicate with motion, all the params must
>> be URL-encoded as required by HTTP protocol. Percent symbols is a
>> special one that is used to encode hex values. In order to use
>> percent symbol as is it is required to encode it as double
>> percent: %%, or as a hex value (like you are using) %25
>>
>> However, the percent symbol is also a reserved special symbol in
>> motion. So after the URL conversion you will end up having a
>> string with a trailing percent sign. Which confuses motion as it
>> expects a specifier to follow.
>>
>> Registered as a bug:
>> https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/issues/1227
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 11:41 PM John Vaccaro <jvacc...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:jvacc...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Motion Users;
>>
>> I'm using Motion 4.3.1-1 on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model2? using
>> PiOS (Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster); Kernel 5.4.51-v7 5.4.51-v7)
>>
>> All is working as advertised and I have bash code to collect
>> weather and rainfall stats and put them into the picture
>> using text_left via /curl/.
>>
>> The problem I'm encountering is trying to include the Percent
>> sign (%) after the humidity level.
>>
>> No amount of jiggering will get the % appended to the
>> humidity value.
>>
>> This is the string I am feeding to string_left that works
>> correctly:
>> /Partly%20Cloudy%2079F%20Humidity%3A60\nWind:South@{10}mph/
>>
>> This string gets me an error message from Motion daemon:
>> /Mostly%20Cloudy%2081F%20Humidity%3A58%25\nWind:South@{11}mph/
>>
>> The error message is *The server did not understand your
>> request.*
>>
>> What do I do to protect the /%/ sign or its hex equivalent
>> /%25/ from having Motion interpret**the string as a hex code
>> other than that of the percent sign?*
>> *
>>
>> --
>>
>> All the Best?
>>
>> /John /
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