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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Snapshot vs picture (Yash Sondhi)
2. Re: Set motion to only take one or two HQ photos (Harlan Daneker)
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 09:05:33 -0500
From: Yash Sondhi <ysond...@fiu.edu>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Snapshot vs picture
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Hi,
You could try minimum frame time, and specify the time at which you want it to
take images.
Cheers
On 1 Mar 2021, 19:44 -0500, Rainer <feyerpictu...@gmail.com>, wrote:
> I am probably missing something simple again, however, I am missing it:
>
> Continuing to work on my meager Motion GUI to view/copy/move/delete
> clips recorded by motion, I now am working on adding a listbox for
> snapshots/ pictures for a faster search through captured motion.
>
> In order to do so, I need motion to save a picture (jpg) when motion is
> triggered, and then subsequently at intervals while there is still motion.
>
> All I have found is that snapshots have an interval property ( range in
> seconds ) and pictures have an option to record when motion starts, but
> I can't find a way to complete it.
> So,
>
> - Snapshot intervals would be great if recording starts when motion is
> detected, stop interval recording when motion is done.
>
> - Pictures start correctly with motion, but should continue at intervals
> until motion is done.
>
>
> What am I missing?
>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 14:55:25 -0500
From: Harlan Daneker <hdane...@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
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*This gives me an error:*
curl -s "http://localhost:8081/1/current"; > snapshot1.jpg
Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x3c 0x21)
*This works for me:*
curl -s "http://localhost:8081/current"; > snapshot1.jpg
Thanks for posting this!
On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 5:35 AM tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The script is very simple:
>
> curl -s "http://localhost:8081/1/current"; > snapshot1.jpg
> sleep 1
> curl -s "http://localhost:8081/1/current"; > snapshot2.jpg
> sleep 2
> curl -s "http://localhost:8081/1/current"; > snapshot3.jpg
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 3:38 AM <mittscotch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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>
> 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
> >
> >
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