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1. Re: Getting an Equal Sign (=) into on-Screen Text (tosiara)
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Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 09:40:45 +0200
From: tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Getting an Equal Sign (=) into on-Screen
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Hi,
Motion has historicaly limitted support of symbols that can be printed. I'm
currently working on adding more symbols and should have working build for
testing some time next week
On Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 03:24 John Vaccaro <jvacc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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*
>
> --
>
> 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> 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> 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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