Motion Detection with RaspiCam, Non-Module version

[dam4]

@jasonarends
I did get a picture when I typed that in so I know my camera is working.

Here is the link to my config stuff.

config stuff

it sits there and my screen never blanked out, but I did notice that when I moved the block in front of the camera it did do something and when I put it back it did shut off the monitor.

[jasonarends]

@dam4 sounds like it might be working - especially based on these lines:

[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_detected: Motion detected - starting event 1
display_power=1
...
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] mlp_actions: End of event 1
display_power=0

I found a couple other config options and I think I was able to disable all the “event_newfile: File of type 2 saved to: /run/shm/lastsnap.jpg” stuff. I wonder if that’s what was causing memory leaks for @bhepler I set the pre_capture and post_capture to 0

You might need to play with some of the settings for threshold and event_gap to get it to behave like you want but it sounds like you’re almost there. I set mine up in pm2 like mentioned earlier in the thread and it’s been working fine for the last day for me.

[dam4]

@jasonarends
How would I set it up in pm2? I’d like to try it.

[dam4]

@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?

[bhepler]

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[bhepler]

@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?

[dam4]

@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:~ $

[dam4]

@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?

[bhepler]

@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?

[dam4]

@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.

[trividar]

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

[AnduriI]

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?

[Freebond]

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