Help with MMM-SleepWake

sdetweil

@chanster can u show me what u added to motion.conf?

chanster

These are the two lines I updated in motion.conf

# Command to be executed when an event starts. (default: none)
# An event starts at first motion detected after a period of no motion defined by event_gap

on_event_start value /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion started

# Command to be executed when an event ends after a period of no motion
# (default: none). The period of no motion is defined by option event_gap.

on_event_end value /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion ended

I noticed something else. Last night, before I went to bed, I turned motion off (I was just running it from the command line, not as a service). This morning my display was in power saving mode again (yellow light) and I couldn’t get it to wake up. I had to manually run this command from the command line to get the screen to turn on again :

/opt/vc/bin/tvservice -p && sudo chvt 6 && sudo chvt 7

It’s strange that your module had put my screen to sleep even though there was no motion even to trigger it.

sdetweil

@chanster remove the word value from both lines in motion.conf

sdetweil

@chanster motion wakes up. timer puts to sleep

sdetweil

@chanster u can run the exteral_motion started command from the command line to test getting the commands working.

over ssh too. it’s just a command to tell module there was ‘motion’

chanster

@sdetweil Thank you !! I’m so stupid. Removing “value” did the trick ! Thank you for this module. Works perfectly.

sdetweil

@chanster glad u got it working.

help me fix the doc, what lead u to use value?

chanster

@sdetweil It was in the sample config file for Motion. It’s a rookie mistake that I should have replaced “value” and not merely append to this line :

# Command to be executed when an event starts. (default: none)
# An event starts at first motion detected after a period of no motion defined by event_gap
; on_event_start value

# Command to be executed when an event ends after a period of no motion
# (default: none). The period of no motion is defined by option event_gap.
; on_event_end value

sdetweil

@chanster ok, my module doc gives u the new lines for motion.conf

chanster

@sdetweil said in Help with MMM-SleepWake:

@chanster ok, my module doc gives u the new lines for motion.conf

Yes, nothing wrong with your docs at all.