MMM-SleepWake turn off but not turn on

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?

sdetweil

@krosamont thats as good as any place. see my sample module

https://github.com/sdetweil/SampleModule

krosamont

@sdetweil Thank you for sharing :)