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Re: Auto Focus (Arrow22) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 17:46:05 -0700 From: "Arrow22" <arro...@siliconmagi.com> To: <c.ell...@pobox.com>, "'Motion discussion list'" <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Auto Focus Message-ID: <000201d73e23$60552810$20ff7830$@SiliconMagi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This sounds like the best so far, I have the script playing a sound for each cam I will start looking at ffplay Thank you From: chuck elliot [mailto:c.ell...@pobox.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 1:56 PM To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Auto Focus You can achieve something similar using the script option 'on_event_start' to run a script that uses ffplay to display the camera output and then stop it with 'on_event_end'. 'not elegant but it works ;o) On 30/04/2021 7:41 pm, Arrow22 wrote: First, I am using IP cams Second, vid_control_params does not have anything to do with the webserver interface only camera fine tuning for picture/video Normally localhost:8080 shows all cameras in a video matrix block The autofocus function I want is when motion is detected on one of the cameras, that camera?s video goes full screen End of motion event, back to 8080 Playing with a bunch of ideas but still not sure what I can do after I hack this out. Can I publish the changes on my site? Does the GNU allow me to do this? Does the Original Author have to okay the changes? From: tosiara [mailto:tosi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2021 10:14 PM To: Motion discussion list <mailto:motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Auto Focus There is already a config called "vid_control_params" that controls USB V4L cameras. If your camera supports turing autofocus on/off - just use vid_control_params https://motion-project.github.io/motion_config.html#vid_control_params On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 1:14 AM Arrow22 <arro...@siliconmagi.com <mailto:arro...@siliconmagi.com> > wrote: Am I allowed to change the source code? I wanted to add another Flag called Autofocus=true/false It would ?full screen? the camera that detects motion. A function that would seem to be a no brainer in any surveillance system. First time dealing with GNU not sure what I can do Thanks for any information _______________________________________________ Motion-user mailing list Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto: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 _______________________________________________ Motion-user mailing list Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto: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: 2 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 17:49:50 -0700 From: "Arrow22" <arro...@siliconmagi.com> To: <c.ell...@pobox.com>, "'Motion discussion list'" <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Auto Focus Message-ID: <000701d73e23$e6053f40$b20fbdc0$@SiliconMagi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I responded to this before but wanted to ask about the webcontrol Specifically webcontrol_parms 2 How can I send messages to any part of Motion with this at 2 and not 0 From: chuck elliot [mailto:c.ell...@pobox.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 1:56 PM To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Auto Focus You can achieve something similar using the script option 'on_event_start' to run a script that uses ffplay to display the camera output and then stop it with 'on_event_end'. 'not elegant but it works ;o) On 30/04/2021 7:41 pm, Arrow22 wrote: First, I am using IP cams Second, vid_control_params does not have anything to do with the webserver interface only camera fine tuning for picture/video Normally localhost:8080 shows all cameras in a video matrix block The autofocus function I want is when motion is detected on one of the cameras, that camera?s video goes full screen End of motion event, back to 8080 Playing with a bunch of ideas but still not sure what I can do after I hack this out. Can I publish the changes on my site? Does the GNU allow me to do this? Does the Original Author have to okay the changes? From: tosiara [mailto:tosi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2021 10:14 PM To: Motion discussion list <mailto:motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Auto Focus There is already a config called "vid_control_params" that controls USB V4L cameras. If your camera supports turing autofocus on/off - just use vid_control_params https://motion-project.github.io/motion_config.html#vid_control_params On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 1:14 AM Arrow22 <arro...@siliconmagi.com <mailto:arro...@siliconmagi.com> > wrote: Am I allowed to change the source code? I wanted to add another Flag called Autofocus=true/false It would ?full screen? the camera that detects motion. A function that would seem to be a no brainer in any surveillance system. 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