MMM-SleepWake turn off but not turn on

sdetweil

@krosamont remove the ; in motion.conf on the two lines u edited

no leading ; or #

krosamont

@sdetweil thanks for the quick answer. Sorry I should have payed more attention to this. I have made the modification into 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 /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 /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion ended

But it still doesn’t turn on after the sleep…

sdetweil

@krosamont then u have to restart motion module

u can test the start/stop commands

from a terminal window or over ssh

sdetweil

@krosamont but it sleeps on timer(no motion) and wakes on motion.
how long after motion til motion fires the ended event?

look in /var/log/motion.log

may have to fiddle w some motion settings.

i changed my time gap down to 15 seconds
the camera is detecting motion constantly

krosamont

@sdetweil said in MMM-SleepWake turn off but not turn on:

start/stop commands

You mean going to the terminal and write:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo service motion start
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo service motion stop

I have done it. nothing happened

krosamont

@sdetweil the default setting is:

# Maximum number of frames to be captured per second.
# Valid range: 2-100. Default: 100 (almost no limit).
framerate 2

and I have changed the gap event from 60 to 15:

# Event Gap is the seconds of no motion detection that triggers the end of an event.
# An event is defined as a series of motion images taken within a short timeframe.
# Recommended value is 60 seconds (Default). The value -1 is allowed and disables
# events causing all Motion to be written to one single movie file and no pre_capture.
# If set to 0, motion is running in gapless mode. Movies don't have gaps anymore. An
# event ends right after no more motion is detected and post_capture is over.
event_gap 15

It sounds good, isn’t it?

I have also installed the module again :

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake $ npm install

and I have tried to use your module without using MMM-Face-Reco-DNN…
but still I don’t find the solution

krosamont

By the way, I have also noticed that no log are generated in motion.log when I am using the mirror? The log is generated only when I do this command:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ motion

Is it normal?

sdetweil

@krosamont motion is a module outside mm
u have to run it all the time

i think u will have to do
sudo motion &
to start it

krosamont

Hello @chanster,
How do you run your magic mirror project please?
@sdetweil I have tried:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo service motion start
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

Still nothing. And nothing appears in the log. I think this is the problem…

If I do:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo motion &
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

Then I get an error and the cam is playing my mirror but there, I have the log!!! :/

I think we are close…:face_with_monocle:

krosamont

@sdetweil you mean that it’s normal if I don’t see the motion log when I run the mirror?

sdetweil

@krosamont turn off the motion web servers that post video

i think there are 4 8080-8083
search the conf file

krosamont

@sdetweil

I have just found 8080 and 8081…there is no 8083.
I have changed them to 0:

# TCP/IP port for the http server to listen on (default: 0 = disabled)
#webcontrol_port 8080
webcontrol_port 0

# The mini-http server listens to this port for requests (default: 0 = disabled)
# stream_port  8081
stream_port 0

I have an error when I run:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo motion &
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

error:

[18.01.2021 17:45.26.632] [ERROR] Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
[18.01.2021 17:45.26.640] [ERROR] PythonShellError: mmal: mmal_vc_port_enable: failed to enable port vc.null_sink:in:0(OPQV): ENOSPC
mmal: mmal_port_enable: failed to enable connected port (vc.null_sink:in:0(OPQV))0x5b77ac0 (ENOSPC)
mmal: mmal_connection_enable: output port couldn't be enabled
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/tools/facerecognition.py", line 80, in <module>
    vs = VideoStream(usePiCamera=True, rotation=args["rotateCamera"]).start()
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/imutils/video/videostream.py", line 18, in __init__
    framerate=framerate, **kwargs)
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/imutils/video/pivideostream.py", line 10, in __init__
    self.camera = PiCamera()
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/picamera/camera.py", line 433, in __init__
    self._init_preview()
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/picamera/camera.py", line 513, in _init_preview
    self, self._camera.outputs[self.CAMERA_PREVIEW_PORT])
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/picamera/renderers.py", line 558, in __init__
    self.renderer.inputs[0].connect(source).enable()
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/picamera/mmalobj.py", line 2212, in enable
    prefix="Failed to enable connection")
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/picamera/exc.py", line 184, in mmal_check
    raise PiCameraMMALError(status, prefix)
picamera.exc.PiCameraMMALError: Failed to enable connection: Out of resources

    at PythonShell.parseError (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/node_modules/python-shell/index.js:254:21)
    at terminateIfNeeded (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/node_modules/python-shell/index.js:129:32)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/node_modules/python-shell/index.js:121:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:210:5)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12) {
  executable: '/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/bin/python3.7',
  options: null,
  script: 'modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/tools/facerecognition.py',
  args: [
    '--cascade=modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/tools/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml',
    '--encodings=modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/tools/encodings.pickle',
    '--usePiCamera=1',
    '--source=0',
    '--rotateCamera=0',
    '--method=dnn',
    '--detectionMethod=hog',
    '--interval=4000',
    '--output=0',
    '--extendDataset=False',
    '--dataset=modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/dataset/',
    '--tolerance=0.6'
  ],
  exitCode: 1
}
[18.01.2021 17:45.26.642] [ERROR] MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
[18.01.2021 17:45.26.643] [ERROR] If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues
[18.01.2021 17:45.49.329] [LOG]   sleep-wake helper in socket notification=start_sleep

weird…

sdetweil

@krosamont u have to turn off the servers not set the ports to zero

i think the settings are false. on my phone from hospital cant help more. motion doc is pretty good

krosamont

@sdetweil I am sorry to hear that. I hope you will have a fast recovery!
I don’t understand which parameters I am suppose to change inside motion.conf

I have also checked the documentation but sorry…I don’t get your point.
Here is the list of all the parameters linked to the HTTP based control :

############################################################
# HTTP Based Control
############################################################

# TCP/IP port for the http server to listen on (default: 0 = disabled)
webcontrol_port 8080
#webcontrol_port 0

# Restrict control connections to localhost only (default: on)
webcontrol_localhost on
#webcontrol_localhost off

# Output for http server, select off to choose raw text plain (default: on)
webcontrol_html_output on
#webcontrol_html_output off

# Authentication for the http based control. Syntax username:password
# Default: not defined (Disabled)
; webcontrol_authentication username:password

# Parameters to include on webcontrol.  0=none, 1=limited, 2=advanced, 3=restricted
# Default: 0 (none)
webcontrol_parms 0

sdetweil

@krosamont change the magicmirror port to like 8090

chanster

@krosamont said in MMM-SleepWake turn off but not turn on:

Hello @chanster,
How do you run your magic mirror project please?

I have a script that starts Motion whenever my Rpi restarts :

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/pi/.motion/
sudo motion &

You need to make sure that you are running Motion in the directory where it installed ie “.motion”. If you start motion outside of this directory, it’ll use a generic motion config not your config in the “.motion” directory.

If Motion is detecting motion properly, you see lines like these in your motion log :

motion_detected: Motion detected - starting event 1
mlp_actions: End of event 1
event_newfile: File of type 8 saved to: /home/pi/Pictures/motion/02-20210109005258.mkv

The directory where these files are being saved to is what you define in your motion config. Look in that folder to make sure you have files showing up there. If you don’t see any files being saved in that directory, it means Motion is not using your motion config but the generic motion config. Refer to my bolded comments above.

Hopefully this helps.

sdetweil

@chanster pm2 could start motion on boot too

krosamont

@chanster @sdetweil Thanks for your help guys.
I understood my problem. I was trying to use facial recognition and motion detection at the same time with 2 different services. I can’t work with MMM-SleepWake and MMM-Face-Reco-DNN at the same time.

sdetweil

@krosamont i wanted to try that, never got there

krosamont

@sdetweil Thanks sincerely for your time and your willingness. I would like to start to fork and try implement modification on some modules but I am not confident enough in Javascript. Do you have any suggestion for me. Where to start? Should I go with nodeJS basic tutorials?