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    Motion Detection with RaspiCam, Non-Module version

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      dam4 @jasonarends
      last edited by yawns

      @jasonarends
      I feel I am so close I followed the instructions exactly and I have motion started in pm2. it still doesn’t work. As I checked the motion-error-2.log I am seeing the following;

      Error: Cannot find module '/home/pi/motion'
          at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:469:15)
          at Function.Module._load (module.js:417:25)
          at Object. (/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/ProcessContainerFork.js:73:21)
          at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
          at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
          at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
          at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
          at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
          at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)
          at run (bootstrap_node.js:383:7)
      

      This is displayed over and over. I have checked for the directory /home/pi/motion and it is there. What am I missing?

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        bhepler Module Developer @dam4
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          bhepler Module Developer @dam4
          last edited by

          @dam4 Hmm. It sounds like a permissions issue. IIRC, you installed motion with sudo. It’s possible that the pm2 process doesn’t have rights to the motion folder.

          If you enter ls -ah /home/pi/motion, what does that return?

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            dam4 @bhepler
            last edited by

            @bhepler
            This is what I get when I type that in.
            pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls -ah /home/pi/motion
            . CONTRIBUTING.md mask1.png netcam_ftp.h rotate.o
            … COPYING md5.c netcam_ftp.o stream.c
            aclocal.m4 copyright md5.h netcam.h stream.h
            alg.c CREDITS md5.o netcam_http.c stream.o
            alg.h .depend mmalcam.c netcam_http.h test_builds.sh
            alg.o draw.c mmalcam.h netcam_http.o track.c
            autom4te.cache draw.o mmalcam.o netcam_jpeg.c track.h
            camera1-dist.conf event.c mmx.h netcam_jpeg.o track.o
            camera1-dist.conf.in event.h motion netcam.o .travis.yml
            camera2-dist.conf event.o motion.1 netcam_rtsp.c version.sh
            camera2-dist.conf.in FAQ motion.c netcam_rtsp.h video_bktr.c
            camera3-dist.conf ffmpeg.c motion-dist.conf netcam_rtsp.o video_bktr.h
            camera3-dist.conf.in ffmpeg.h motion-dist.conf.in netcam_wget.c video_bktr.o
            camera4-dist.conf ffmpeg.o motion_guide.html netcam_wget.h video_common.c
            camera4-dist.conf.in .git motion.h netcam_wget.o video_common.h
            CHANGELOG .gitignore motion.init-Debian normal.jpg video_common.o
            CODE_STANDARD INSTALL motion.init-Debian.in outputmotion1.jpg video_loopback.c
            conf.c ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md motion.init-FreeBSD.sh outputnormal1.jpg video_loopback.h
            conf.h jpegutils.c motion.init-FreeBSD.sh.in picture.c video_loopback.o
            config.h jpegutils.h motion.o picture.h video_v4l2.c
            config.h.in jpegutils.o motion.service picture.o video_v4l2.h
            config.log logger.c motion.service.in pwc-ioctl.h video_v4l2.o
            config.status logger.h motion.spec raspicam webhttpd.c
            configure logger.o motion.spec.in README.md webhttpd.h
            configure.ac Makefile netcam.c rotate.c webhttpd.o
            conf.o Makefile.in netcam_ftp.c rotate.h
            pi@raspberrypi:~ $

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              dam4 @bhepler
              last edited by

              @bhepler The motion works only when MagicMirror isn’t running. I have it starting with pm2. When MagicMirror is running the motion doesn’t work. Any suggestions?

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                bhepler Module Developer @dam4
                last edited by

                @dam4 What the hell… ls is the “list” command. It should only show you the listing for the file, including dates and permissions. But it’s… executing.

                Just to be sure: pm2 shows two separate processes when you type pm2 status, correct?

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                  dam4 @bhepler
                  last edited by

                  @bhepler I copied and pasted exactly what you wrote for the command to make sure I didn’t mistype something.
                  Yes there are two processes running when I type pm2 status. One is MagicMirror and the other is motion.

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                    trividar
                    last edited by

                    Does anyone get it to work on stretch? I tried it but without success.

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                      AnduriI
                      last edited by

                      Hey there,

                      I have this running for quite some time and it works in general. But after some hours it gets really slow and unresponsiv. A motion need a few seconds before it is detected. I already have enabled a daily reboot, but still these few hours are enough. I also tried only restarting motion via pm2, but this leads to problems. I checked it with pm2 monit and got this:

                      motion > [0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 13536 
                      motion > [1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_init: Thread 1 started , motion detection Enabled
                      motion > [1] [ALR] [VID] mmalcam_start: MMAL Camera thread starting... for camera (vc.ril.camera) of 640 x 480 at 4 fps
                      motion > [1] [ALR] [VID] mmalcam_start: MMAL Camera using video capture
                      motion > [0] [ERR] [ALL] main: Thread 1 - Watchdog timeout, trying to do a graceful restart
                      motion > [0] [ERR] [ALL] main: Thread 1 - Watchdog timeout, did NOT restart graceful,killing it! 
                      motion > [0] [NTC] [STR] stream_stop: Closing motion-stream listen socket & active motion-stream sockets 
                      motion > [0] [NTC] [STR] stream_stop: Closed motion-stream listen socket & active motion-stream sockets
                      motion > [0] [INF] [ALL] motion_cleanup: Calling vid_close() from motion_cleanup 
                      motion > [0] [INF] [VID] vid_close: calling video source cleanup 
                      motion > [0] [ALR] [VID] MMAL Camera cleanup 
                      motion > /home/pi/motion.sh: Zeile 2: 13536 Speicherzugriffsfehler  (Speicherabzug geschrieben) ./motion -c motion.conf
                      PM2 > App [motion] with id [0] and pid [13532], exited with code [139] via signal [SIGINT] 
                      PM2 > Starting execution sequence in -fork mode- for app name:motion id:0
                      PM2 > App name:motion id:0 online
                      motion > [0] [NTC] [ALL] conf_load: Processing thread 0 - config file motion.conf
                      motion > [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Motion mmaltest Started 
                      motion > [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Logging to syslog 
                      motion > [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using log type (ALL) log level (INF)
                      motion > [0] [NTC] [ENC] ffmpeg_init: ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3670272 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3670272
                      motion > [0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Thread 1 is from motion.conf
                      motion > [0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Thread 1 is device: /dev/video0 input -1
                      motion > [0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Stream port 8081
                      motion > [0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 13583 
                      motion > [1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_init: Thread 1 started , motion detection Enabled
                      motion > [1] [ALR] [VID] mmalcam_start: MMAL Camera thread starting... for camera (vc.ril.camera) of 640 x 480 at 4 fps
                      motion > [1] [ALR] [VID] mmalcam_start: MMAL Camera using video capture
                      

                      Can anyone suggest how to correctly restart motion?

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                        Freebond @trividar
                        last edited by

                        @trividar I’m trying to install it right now. You posted 2 months ago. Did you get it running?

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