Pi camera use for turning on mirror

[reallykeene]

I have read multiple forums about motion detector and facial recognition for turning on the magic mirror. Is there one that is plug and play, or has a good walkthrough? I’m having difficulties with python and the motion software.

[sdetweil]

@reallykeene i use a logitech webcam for my camera… and I use the motion project for interfacing to the camera

https://motion-project.github.io/

sudo apt-get install motion

i didn’t want to try to interface a module to lots of different camera… motion handles that.
I didn’t want to deal with coding for all the different options I might needs (sensitivity, lightswitch flash. …

you name it… motion handles it…

i don’t know how it interfaces with face reco, but it can capture images, and forward those on for matching

[sdetweil]

i wrote my own module as I use TV and it can’t turn off, and I wanted webcam…

https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-SleepWake

uses the motion module discussed above…

[reallykeene]

@sdetweil ok I now have motion working. Tested with vlc. But I’m unable to get your module to work. What screen shots might you need to help?
I changed the time to 1min but the screen will not hide.

[sdetweil]

@reallykeene did u set the motion config to trigger my script?

[sdetweil]

@reallykeene also, if u look in /var/log/motion.log to see motion events