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1. Re: Gray glitching but only one of of two identical cameras
(Barry Martin)
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Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 08:40:38 -0500
From: Barry Martin <barry3mar...@gmail.com>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Gray glitching but only one of of two
identical cameras
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Hi Roger/All who are following this!
Just to keep up-to-date: At about 4 o?clock (1600) yesterday afternoon I
reset my Pi4?s gpu_mem from 512MB to 256 MB. Seems counter-intuitive to
decrease the graphic memory for video problems but maybe I was starving
the CPU. Anyway, at the time of the update Camera1?s video feed (to the
monitor) had been frozen for a couple of hours. Camera2?s video feed was
chugging along happily. Both cameras were sending motion-triggered
recordings to the NSA.
Did a reboot to update the memory configuration. Since then things seem
to be working as they should ? have had previous fixes works for a while
so not celebrating yet. Both cameras seem to be holding at 5 fps, though
have seen a one to two second video freeze; might try cutting gpu_mem a
little more. (The gpu_mem in the Pi4 works differently from earlier
versions; if somebody reading this is using a Pi3 might make things worse.)
I semi-figured out logging to it?s own file: in motion.conf I have
*log_file /mnt/NSA320/Unit_1/%m-%d/motion.log* ==> to the server in the
basement, Unit #1?s partition (clever name, huh?!). The what I wanted it
to do was to a daily file, hence the month and date variables but
they?re not working; work elsewhere. Figuring the log_file field doesn?t
input variable but rather a literal. Works in movie_filename, which is a
?type: string? as is log_file, per
https://motion-project.github.io/motion_config.html . OTOH might not be
necessary to have separate/daily logs: relatively short. I had looked at
syslog which was constantly updating and HUGE.
Suggestions? It also looks like motion.log with the default level of 6
only logs at boot start, though I haven?t done a motion restart.
..I just took a closer look at motion.log: it /is/ updating! The file
was created yesterday and here the ?Modified? column is showing
?yesterday? as opposed to the time of the last entry a few minutes ago.
Just assumed (yeah: I know!) when I saw ?yesterday? it hadn?t been altered.
Barry
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