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Re: Set motion to only take one or two HQ photos (mittscotch...@gmail.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 10:49:43 -0600 From: Mitchell Scott <mittscotch...@gmail.com> To: Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Motion-user] Set motion to only take one or two HQ photos Message-ID: <48114055-e97d-342c-85f9-298f51b71...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hello everyone, I have been studying the documentation and am unable to find an appropriate set of settings where the camera only takes one or two shots when motion is detected. As of right now it fires off 10+ pictures every time motion is detected and I would really like to decrease that amount. I am thinking one way to do this is to simply have two cameras, one webcam for watching and then an R-Pi HQ camera, and have the webcam trigger an event to take a picture with the R-Pi, that way I get only one or two HQ photos instead of a bunch. I'm assuming this will also decrease the motion blur because the lens is not open for too long? I am totally new to photography so I'm groping int he dark here. Anyways, if a scenario like this can be achieved with just one camera please let me know the best way to go about doing it! For context, the camera will be used to take pictures of people as they ride across a zip line. Thank you for your time, -Mitchell ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 23:11:42 +0200 From: tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com> To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Set motion to only take one or two HQ photos Message-ID: <cachtdwrpgsh2qzgfuxjisiqzy_t7e365e6bnwtk5aas+tk5...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" You can configure to take one photo by specifying "best" or "first". If you need two, you could use a script to dump an image from mition's stream. I do that to take 3 images with 1 second delay each On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 18:51 Mitchell Scott <mittscotch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, I have been studying the documentation and am unable to > find an appropriate set of settings where the camera only takes one or > two shots when motion is detected. As of right now it fires off 10+ > pictures every time motion is detected and I would really like to > decrease that amount. > > I am thinking one way to do this is to simply have two cameras, one > webcam for watching and then an R-Pi HQ camera, and have the webcam > trigger an event to take a picture with the R-Pi, that way I get only > one or two HQ photos instead of a bunch. I'm assuming this will also > decrease the motion blur because the lens is not open for too long? I am > totally new to photography so I'm groping int he dark here. > > Anyways, if a scenario like this can be achieved with just one camera > please let me know the best way to go about doing it! For context, the > camera will be used to take pictures of people as they ride across a zip > line. > > Thank you for your time, > > -Mitchell > > > > _______________________________________________ > Motion-user mailing list > Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user > https://motion-project.github.io/ > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/motion-user > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 21:25:07 +0000 From: chuck elliot <c.ell...@pobox.com> To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Set motion to only take one or two HQ photos Message-ID: <4fa6c7e3-272c-96a4-e3c2-9933417c6...@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed If your version has them you could try playing with appropriate values for framerate, movie_max_time and minimum_frame_rate to give you short videos with only a few frames that you could extract using ffmpeg. On 27/02/2021 4:49 pm, Mitchell Scott wrote: > Hello everyone, I have been studying the documentation and am unable > to find an appropriate set of settings where the camera only takes one > or two shots when motion is detected. As of right now it fires off 10+ > pictures every time motion is detected and I would really like to > decrease that amount. > > I am thinking one way to do this is to simply have two cameras, one > webcam for watching and then an R-Pi HQ camera, and have the webcam > trigger an event to take a picture with the R-Pi, that way I get only > one or two HQ photos instead of a bunch. I'm assuming this will also > decrease the motion blur because the lens is not open for too long? I > am totally new to photography so I'm groping int he dark here. > > Anyways, if a scenario like this can be achieved with just one camera > please let me know the best way to go about doing it! For context, the > camera will be used to take pictures of people as they ride across a > zip line. > > Thank you for your time, > > -Mitchell > > > > _______________________________________________ > Motion-user mailing list > Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user > https://motion-project.github.io/ > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/motion-user ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 22:20:14 +0000 From: Richard Bown <rich...@g8jvm.com> To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Motion-user] lightswitch setting Message-ID: <b2840bcdb40d44c057045d2644e83db54249d465.ca...@g8jvm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" The default for lightswitch is off, If 100 is ignore sudden light level changes, does 1 make motion more susceptible to a large light level change ? It would be nice to be able to trigger motion when external lights come on Richard ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 19:36:59 -0600 From: <mittscotch...@gmail.com> To: "'Motion discussion list'" <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Set motion to only take one or two HQ photos Message-ID: <000001d70d72$35b00580$a1101080$@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi there, thank you for the advice. Would you mind sharing the script so I might be able to make a similar one? -Mitchell From: tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2021 3:12 PM To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Set motion to only take one or two HQ photos You can configure to take one photo by specifying "best" or "first". If you need two, you could use a script to dump an image from mition's stream. I do that to take 3 images with 1 second delay each On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 18:51 Mitchell Scott <mittscotch...@gmail.com <mailto:mittscotch...@gmail.com> > wrote: Hello everyone, I have been studying the documentation and am unable to find an appropriate set of settings where the camera only takes one or two shots when motion is detected. As of right now it fires off 10+ pictures every time motion is detected and I would really like to decrease that amount. I am thinking one way to do this is to simply have two cameras, one webcam for watching and then an R-Pi HQ camera, and have the webcam trigger an event to take a picture with the R-Pi, that way I get only one or two HQ photos instead of a bunch. I'm assuming this will also decrease the motion blur because the lens is not open for too long? I am totally new to photography so I'm groping int he dark here. Anyways, if a scenario like this can be achieved with just one camera please let me know the best way to go about doing it! 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