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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Keeping Motion under control. (Harlan Daneker)
2. Re: Keeping Motion under control. (Richard Bown)
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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 09:12:39 -0500
From: Harlan Daneker <hdane...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Keeping Motion under control.
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On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 4:53?AM Brian <brian_dorl...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi thanks Stewart.
>
> The goal is to keep anything interesting and to be able to see the
> development as the chicks grow.
>
> I guess I would like at least one video of 10 seconds duration every hour.
>
> But, the people who own the farm want live video when ever they select
> the HDMI from the Raspi4 we are using.
>
> Testing at about 30,000 to 40000 pixels as threshold, That is OK, not
> sure about the load that produces though.
>
> the amount of pixels that change depends upon whether the movement is
> close to the camera, or at the far end of the nesting box.
>
> Cheers Brian
>
>
>
>
> Somehow this reply was sent incorrectly. Sorry about that.
>
>
>
>
>
> Am 2/29/2024 um 4:46 PM schrieb Stewart Andreason:
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > First define what your goal is. What amount of motion you want to
> > trigger a recording, and how long or how many frames you want to save.
> > Then work backward to fit that goal.
> >
> > Some configuration settings to consider in motion:
> >
> > threshold
> >
> > You can set how many frames of movement it takes to get a trigger.
> >
> > minimum_motion_frames
> >
> > You can reduce the trigger with a mask.
> >
> > mask_file
> >
> > You could set up a time lapse.
> >
> > snapshot_interval
> >
> > Constant movement is a challenge to fine tune.
> >
> > Stewart
> >
> >
> > On 2/29/24 03:10, Brian wrote:
> >> Hi, we have two cameras running in Bird nesting boxes, kestrels and
> >> Little Owls.
> >>
> >> Most of the time there is not much going on, but then when 4-5
> >> Kestrels are hatched and continually moving
> >>
> >> and the parents are bringing back food, then Motion is basically
> >> recording video 24x7.
> >>
> >> So I would like to introduce some kind of delay parameter that
> >> would increase automatically, but then also decrease if there is no
> >> motion at all
> >> or less motion than before.
> >>
> >> I see the various things that can be triggered and I guess this could
> >> be done with external scripts being triggered.
> >>
> >> Has anyone already done something like this? Any parameters that
> >> would help me maybe?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance Brian.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:31:28 +0000
From: Richard Bown <rich...@g8jvm.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Keeping Motion under control.
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You can disable motion detection and it still allows you to stream
the video, you can send the command using cron to disable and enable motion
detection,? but minimum period on cron is 1 minute,? so you could do 1 min
every hour.
HTH,? Richard
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On 1 Mar 2024, 14:13, at 14:13, Harlan Daneker <hdane...@gmail.com> wrote:
>timelapse
>
>On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 4:53?AM Brian <brian_dorl...@t-online.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi thanks Stewart.
>>
>> The goal is to keep anything interesting and to be able to see the
>> development as the chicks grow.
>>
>> I guess I would like at least one video of 10 seconds duration every
>hour.
>>
>> But, the people who own the farm want live video when ever they
>select
>> the HDMI from the Raspi4 we are using.
>>
>> Testing at about 30,000 to 40000 pixels as threshold, That is OK, not
>> sure about the load that produces though.
>>
>> the amount of pixels that change depends upon whether the movement is
>> close to the camera, or at the far end of the nesting box.
>>
>> Cheers Brian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Somehow this reply was sent incorrectly. Sorry about that.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 2/29/2024 um 4:46 PM schrieb Stewart Andreason:
>> > Hi Brian,
>> >
>> > First define what your goal is. What amount of motion you want to
>> > trigger a recording, and how long or how many frames you want to
>save.
>> > Then work backward to fit that goal.
>> >
>> > Some configuration settings to consider in motion:
>> >
>> > threshold
>> >
>> > You can set how many frames of movement it takes to get a trigger.
>> >
>> > minimum_motion_frames
>> >
>> > You can reduce the trigger with a mask.
>> >
>> > mask_file
>> >
>> > You could set up a time lapse.
>> >
>> > snapshot_interval
>> >
>> > Constant movement is a challenge to fine tune.
>> >
>> > Stewart
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2/29/24 03:10, Brian wrote:
>> >> Hi, we have two cameras running in Bird nesting boxes, kestrels
>and
>> >> Little Owls.
>> >>
>> >> Most of the time there is not much going on, but then when 4-5
>> >> Kestrels are hatched and continually moving
>> >>
>> >> and the parents are bringing back food, then Motion is basically
>> >> recording video 24x7.
>> >>
>> >> So I would like to introduce some kind of delay parameter that
>> >> would increase automatically, but then also decrease if there is
>no
>> >> motion at all
>> >> or less motion than before.
>> >>
>> >> I see the various things that can be triggered and I guess this
>could
>> >> be done with external scripts being triggered.
>> >>
>> >> Has anyone already done something like this? Any parameters that
>> >> would help me maybe?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance Brian.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Motion-user mailing list
>> > Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
>> > https://motion-project.github.io/
>> >
>> > Unsubscribe:
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