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1. Re: Configuration help (Roger Heflin)
2. Re: Configuration help (Steven Haigh)
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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 08:41:06 -0500
From: Roger Heflin <roger.hef...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Configuration help
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Do one of the cameras for the 1fps capture (but the snapshot should work
anyway).
My snapshot filename definition looks like this:
snapshot_filename ./snapshots/%Y%m%d/%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S-%v-%q
If you are using the same file name and re-writing it every second and
reading it into something else the is a good chance that you will read the
file at the wrong time a significant amount of the time. You may want to
have the filename just write out minutes and seconds in the name such that
the files get re-written each hour, or even just used seconds and let the
file get re-written every 60 seconds and have the other tool reading a
second behind so that it gets a complete file. I had some code that used
inotify and copied the file on the create and often that separate process
would copy the file before the file was completely written. I had to put
some delay in for it to work.
or, do a 2nd camera with the low-res for detection + high res for capture.
On the corruption, have you viewed the live camera feed from motion to see
if that is also corrupted from time to time?
There are some camera models/vendors that don't handle packet loss at all,
and lose frames.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:27 AM Steven Haigh via Motion-user <
motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I was trying not to do it that way - as performing motion detect on the
> high resolution stream takes up 40-50% of a CPU core on my system...
>
> Running motion detect on the low resolution stream seems to be fine - but
> has the problem that I can't trigger captures from the high resolution
> stream based on motion from the low resolution one.
>
> I tried with the 'snapshot' option, but the JPG it seems to produce is
> garbled junk :\
>
> Right now, for the picture, I'm using:
>
> picture_output on
> picture_output_motion off
> picture_quality 50
> picture_filename /tmp/cameras/front_door
>
> ## This also kills the /1/stream down to 1fps - which is not ideal.
> #minimum_frame_time 1
>
> ## The below outputs a corrupted JPG as the snapshot...
> #snapshot_interval 1
> #snapshot_filename /tmp/cameras/front_door_snapshot
>
>
> --
> Steven Haigh ? net...@crc.id.au ? https://www.crc.id.au
>
> On Tue, Apr 5 2022 at 08:19:37 -0500, Roger Heflin <roger.hef...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> You should be able to setup 2 cameras in motion separately handling the 2
> streams.
>
> I have a low-res URL going to one motion thread/camera that captures 2fps,
> and I have a separate thread using a different URL on the same camera (high
> resolution) that is used for motion capture.
>
> So long as the camera allows you should be able to use 2 of the same
> stream URL in different threads for the same camera.
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 11:52 PM Steven Haigh via Motion-user <
> motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having a hell of a time trying to do some image processing with
>> motion + nodered + home assistant + deepstack.
>>
>> I have motion configured as follows:
>> netcam_url rtmp://
>> 172.31.1.245/bcs/channel0_ext.bcs?channel=0&stream=2&user=x&password=x
>> netcam_params framerate=30,capture_rate=30
>> width=896
>> height=672
>>
>> netcam_high_url rtmp://
>> 172.31.1.245/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=x&password=x
>> netcam_high_params framerate=15,capture_rate=15
>>
>> The camera outputs match the settings above - but the resolution on
>> netcam_high_url is 2560x1920.
>>
>> I'm trying to output the netcam_url via the motion API url /1/stream and
>> /1/current to show in the Home Assistant dashboard and feed as a MJPEG
>> camera.
>>
>> I'm also trying to output 1fps as a JPG to a file as /tmp/snapshot.jpg so
>> that I can ingest that into deepstack via nodered and do object recognition.
>>
>> It seems that no matter what I do, I either destroy motion by setting
>> minimum_frame_time to 1, or get the 1fps output with that option - but
>> destroy the stream output.
>>
>> Is there a way I can ratelimit just the saving of pictures to 1 per
>> second from the netcam_high_url input?
>>
>> I've done every possible combination of configuration options, but just
>> can't seem to get this happening.
>> --
>> Steven Haigh ? net...@crc.id.au ? https://www.crc.id.au
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From: Steven Haigh <net...@crc.id.au>
To: Roger Heflin <roger.hef...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Configuration help
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The process that I was using to pull the image into deepstack will do
so on a file change - so after the data has been written to a file.
I've added the image as an attachment - because it seems to be the same
file written again and again...
The actual picture saved by both picture_output and
picture_output_motion are fine.
I do note however that picture_output is written at 15 fps - which is
kinda overkill for using the file changed trigger - as even though
deepstack is GPU accelerated, it can't do 15fps :D
I also validated the RTMP endpoint in VLC - and that plays properly -
so the problem isn't there...
I also get the correct image via:
- <http://172.31.1.89:8001/1/current> (single image)
- <http://172.31.1.89:8001/1/stream> (MJPEG stream)
that being said, it only seems like the snapshot is of the low
resolution stream as well - not from netcam_high_url.
As such, it seems like I have to use the 'picture_output' option - but
then I'm still stuck with the framerate problems...
--
Steven Haigh
? net...@crc.id.au <mailto:net...@crc.id.au>
? https://www.crc.id.au <https://www.crc.id.au/>
On Tue, Apr 5 2022 at 08:41:06 -0500, Roger Heflin
<roger.hef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do one of the cameras for the 1fps capture (but the snapshot should
> work anyway).
>
> My snapshot filename definition looks like this:
> snapshot_filename ./snapshots/%Y%m%d/%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S-%v-%q
> If you are using the same file name and re-writing it every second
> and reading it into something else the is a good chance that you will
> read the file at the wrong time a significant amount of the time.
> You may want to have the filename just write out minutes and seconds
> in the name such that the files get re-written each hour, or even
> just used seconds and let the file get re-written every 60 seconds
> and have the other tool reading a second behind so that it gets a
> complete file. I had some code that used inotify and copied the file
> on the create and often that separate process would copy the file
> before the file was completely written. I had to put some delay in
> for it to work.
>
> or, do a 2nd camera with the low-res for detection + high res for
> capture.
>
> On the corruption, have you viewed the live camera feed from motion
> to see if that is also corrupted from time to time?
>
> There are some camera models/vendors that don't handle packet loss at
> all, and lose frames.
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:27 AM Steven Haigh via Motion-user
> <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> <mailto:motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote:
>> I was trying not to do it that way - as performing motion detect on
>> the high resolution stream takes up 40-50% of a CPU core on my
>> system...
>>
>> Running motion detect on the low resolution stream seems to be fine
>> - but has the problem that I can't trigger captures from the high
>> resolution stream based on motion from the low resolution one.
>>
>> I tried with the 'snapshot' option, but the JPG it seems to produce
>> is garbled junk :\
>>
>> Right now, for the picture, I'm using:
>>
>> picture_output on
>> picture_output_motion off
>> picture_quality 50
>> picture_filename /tmp/cameras/front_door
>>
>> ## This also kills the /1/stream down to 1fps - which is not ideal.
>> #minimum_frame_time 1
>>
>> ## The below outputs a corrupted JPG as the snapshot...
>> #snapshot_interval 1
>> #snapshot_filename /tmp/cameras/front_door_snapshot
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steven Haigh
>>
>> ? net...@crc.id.au <mailto:net...@crc.id.au>
>> ? https://www.crc.id.au <https://www.crc.id.au/>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 5 2022 at 08:19:37 -0500, Roger Heflin
>> <roger.hef...@gmail.com <mailto:roger.hef...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> You should be able to setup 2 cameras in motion separately handling
>>> the 2 streams.
>>>
>>> I have a low-res URL going to one motion thread/camera that
>>> captures 2fps, and I have a separate thread using a different URL
>>> on the same camera (high resolution) that is used for motion
>>> capture.
>>>
>>> So long as the camera allows you should be able to use 2 of the
>>> same stream URL in different threads for the same camera.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 11:52 PM Steven Haigh via Motion-user
>>> <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>>> <mailto:motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm having a hell of a time trying to do some image processing
>>>> with motion + nodered + home assistant + deepstack.
>>>>
>>>> I have motion configured as follows:
>>>> netcam_url
>>>> rtmp://172.31.1.245/bcs/channel0_ext.bcs?channel=0&stream=2&user=x&password=x
>>>>
>>>> <http://172.31.1.245/bcs/channel0_ext.bcs?channel=0&stream=2&user=x&password=x>
>>>> netcam_params framerate=30,capture_rate=30
>>>> width=896
>>>> height=672
>>>>
>>>> netcam_high_url
>>>> rtmp://172.31.1.245/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=x&password=x
>>>>
>>>> <http://172.31.1.245/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=x&password=x>
>>>> netcam_high_params framerate=15,capture_rate=15
>>>>
>>>> The camera outputs match the settings above - but the resolution
>>>> on netcam_high_url is 2560x1920.
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to output the netcam_url via the motion API url
>>>> /1/stream and /1/current to show in the Home Assistant dashboard
>>>> and feed as a MJPEG camera.
>>>>
>>>> I'm also trying to output 1fps as a JPG to a file as
>>>> /tmp/snapshot.jpg so that I can ingest that into deepstack via
>>>> nodered and do object recognition.
>>>>
>>>> It seems that no matter what I do, I either destroy motion by
>>>> setting minimum_frame_time to 1, or get the 1fps output with that
>>>> option - but destroy the stream output.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way I can ratelimit just the saving of pictures to 1
>>>> per second from the netcam_high_url input?
>>>>
>>>> I've done every possible combination of configuration options, but
>>>> just can't seem to get this happening.
>>>> --
>>>> Steven Haigh
>>>>
>>>> ? net...@crc.id.au <mailto:net...@crc.id.au>
>>>> ? https://www.crc.id.au <https://www.crc.id.au/>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> 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/>
>>>>
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