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Today's Topics:
1. Re: motionplus bug and issues switching from motion
(Stewart Andreason)
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Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2024 20:12:21 -0700
From: Stewart Andreason <sandrea...@gmail.com>
To: Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motionplus bug and issues switching from
motion
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Follow up,
I spent hours writing code to mimic the POST packet, but could not get
it to accept changes to config.
The use case motionplus does not work with, is when a PTZ camera is to
be moved, I first send from my text window, a pause to motion, send the
call to the camera, wait for movement to finish and focus, change the
mask and text overlays, sending those changes to motion, and then
unpause motion. This version of motionplus seems to only work with the
html web interface using javascript. I can not automate it without
completely mimicing the loading of pages and sending fake clicks.
I don't see any way to get the status of motion; Is it running?, paused?
When clicking on pause and unpause in the webcontrol page, I don't see a
POST being sent, but instead only SSH packets show up in wireshark. I
can't mimic that.
If motion loses the ability to accept GET by http request, then it will
not be usable.
I hope I overlooked something... but at this point, this is my report.
Over to you Dave.
Stewart
On 8/2/24 22:25, Stewart Andreason wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Testing motionplus-0.2.0 for first time to compare to motion-4.6.0.
> Only one serious bug, the rest are usability and clarity issues.
>
> The biggest barrier to drop in replacement of motion, will be
> rewriting headless programs that communicate to motion via http GET
> commands. But since POST does not really have any additional burden
> (time, single tcp) in usage over GET, I guess it will be okay
> afterward. Tomorrow I'll use wireshark to get the POST requirements.
>
>
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