Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Motion Detection with RaspiCam, Non-Module version
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@bhepler It works perfectly !
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@bhepler I was hoping you could give me a hand. I’ve got your motion working but. Pm2 is not auto starting the motion. Everything is working fine if I manually “pm2 start motion” and " pm2 start mm" and I’ve tried adding @pm2 start motion to my auto start along side my “pm2 start mm” but that only breaks both processes. I’m trying to get both the magic mirror and the motion to auto start upon reboot.
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@stangarrang Sure, no problem. Quick question: Did you enter
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@bhepler yes that was one of the first things I did but after reboot nothing was saving. Actually just as you replied I went through a couple steps for pm2 startup plus the command that came after. After that I did a pm2 save and now things are working well :) thanks for your prompt reply!
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is it possible to use Motion to activate the screen and MMM-Facial-Recignition simultaneously? Maybe also use the
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@AnduriI It should be. The motion system will operate independently of the mirror and only controls the signal running down the HDMI cable to the monitor. The Pi camera and the Magic Mirror process are still running.
If you create a simple python script to control the pinouts on the Pi, you should be able to switch on some simple LED lights to illuminate the front of the mirror.
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@bhepler
Hello, I am a true n00b and I am having issues with your process for getting the Pi camera to work. I copied and pasted your first line exactly and I get the following.pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev libavformat56 libavformat-dev libavcodec56 libavcodec-dev libavutil54 libavutil-dev libc6-dev zlib1g-dev libmysqlclient18 libmysqlclient-dev libpq5 libpq-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package libmysqlclient-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source Package libmysqlclient18 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Unable to locate package libavformat56 E: Unable to locate package libavcodec56 E: Unable to locate package libavutil54 E: Package 'libmysqlclient18' has no installation candidate E: Package 'libmysqlclient-dev' has no installation candidate pi@raspberrypi:~ $What did I do wrong? Please help and thank you in advance.
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@dam4
Are you running raspbian Jessie or Stretch?Looks like the names where changed
Jessie: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libmysqlclient-dev
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@yawns I am pretty sure I am running Jessie. How do I know for sure?
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@dam4
In the terminal runcat /etc/os-releaseMaybe you need to run
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@yawns
It looks like I am running stretch. This is what I get;pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)" NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="9" VERSION="9 (stretch)" ID=raspbian ID_LIKE=debian HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums" BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs" pi@raspberrypi:~ $ -
@dam4 I had the same problem and couldn’t get the correct dependencies resolved, but I just got it to work on stretch by following the Abbreviated Building Guide instructions here: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/blob/master/motion_guide.html
I had already tried the way you did so I had the motion.conf from the other build which I had modified, and it worked with that version.
edit:
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake build-essential pkgconf libtool libzip-dev libjpeg-dev git libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libavdevice-dev cd ~ git clone https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion.git cd motion autoreconf -fiv ./configure make make install -
@jasonarends
I just tried git clone https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion.git and it tells me this;fatal: destination path ‘motion’ already exists and is not an empty directory.
I did a ls -al and it doesn’t show up as a directory. Should I remove the ‘motion’ that is in green from the home directory and try again?
I have to go to work so I will have to work on this tomorrow. Thank you for your help.
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yep, you have the original motion binary in your home directory still, you can just remove that.
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@jasonarends
Thank you for your help. I have tried this and it seemed to install. The only thing I had an issue with was when I entered make install it would not create a directory and it failed. I then ran it as sudo make install and it seemed to install. I am running my MagicMirror now to see if it works. How long does it take to turn the monitor off? Again thank you for your help. -
@jasonarends
How long does it take for the screen to blank out? So far the screen has stayed on and hasn’t even flickered. I have something in front of the Pi camera so it doesn’t pick up any movement and it has been over an hour now. Please help. -
@dam4
Hi, make sure that you’ve edited your motion.conf file that it is using according to the instructions in the original post:framerate 4 - run the detection video at 4 frames per second threshold 2500 - increase the # of pixels to trigger the screen. We want them to get close to the mirror minimum_motion_frames 2 - Motion must be detected in 2 consecutive frames (at 4 FPS) event_gap 60 - This is important. This is how long in seconds after no motion the screen will turn off. output_pictures off - Do not save images ffmpeg_output_movies off - Do not record video stream_port 0 - Turn off remote viewing webcontrol_port 0 - Turn off HTTP control of camera on_event_start vcgencmd display_power 1 - Important! This is the command to turn on the screen on_event_end vcgencmd display_power 0 - Important! This is the command to turn off the screenI’ve copied my config here: https://pastebin.com/61hiygKX (edit: updated conf)
If you put motion.conf in /etc/motion it should pick it up by default without having to specify anything.Make sure you’ve set the event_gap, on_event_start, and on_event_end at the very least for testing.
You can also just try running the command
vcgencmd display_power 0by itself to make sure the command works to turn off the monitor.
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@jasonarends
My motion.conf is located in my home directory. I looked for /etc/motion and I don’t have a directory called motion in /etc. So I made one and put motion.conf in there. My screen still doesn’t shut off. I did look over my motion.conf file and all my settings were exactly like yours. I did follow all the steps at the beginning of this post. I can also type in vcgencmd display_power 0 and it turns off the monitor and vcgencmd display_power 1 turns it back on. This is really getting frustrating. Thank you for your help.I also copied your updated_motion.conf.sh and double checked it and they match with the exception yours has a .sh at the end where mine does not. Is it supposed to have the .sh on the end of the file name or did it get added due to it being uploaded?
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@dam4
Does your camera work outside of motion? Can you doraspistill -o cam.jpgand get a picture?
If so, try launching motion with:
/usr/local/bin/motion -c /etc/motion/motion.confjust to be sure that it’s reading the correct file, and then if you can watch the output and paste it here (or pastebin if it’s large) it might help us troubleshoot.
Here’s what the first part of mine looks like with some of the config stuff cut out:
[27690520:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Motion 4.0.1+gitb103dc0 Started [27690520:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Logging to syslog [27690520:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using log type (ALL) log level (INF) [27690520:motion] [INF] [ALL] conf_output_parms: Writing configuration parameters from all files (1): [27690520:motion] [INF] [ALL] Thread 0 - Config file: /etc/motion/motion.conf ---snip--- [0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] main: Camera ID: 0 is from /etc/motion/motion.conf [0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] main: Camera ID: 0 Camera Name: (null) Device: /dev/video0 [0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] main: Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 30877 [1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_init: Camera 0 started: motion detection Enabled [1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] vid_start: Opening MMAL cam [1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] mmalcam_start: MMAL Camera thread starting... for camera (vc.ril.camera) of 640 x 480 at 4 fps [1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] create_camera_component: MMAL camera component created [1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items [1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture buffer to 2 items [1:ml1] [INF] [ALL] mlp_detection: Lightswitch detected [1:ml1] [INF] [EVT] event_new_video: Source FPS 4 [1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_detected: Motion detected - starting event 1
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