Motion Detector

DirkS

i don’t have a mm.sh script. Where should it be located?

bhepler

@DirkS Aha. You probably haven’t set it up yet. No worries. You normally start your mirror by going into ~/MagicMirror and entering npm start, right? Just append the dev switch and you should see both the mirror UI and the browser console on your mirror: npm start dev

If you’re starting your mirror via SSH, prepend the command to send the output to the mirror’s display: DISPLAY=:0 npm start dev

DirkS

The mirror is starting at reboot. So maybe there is a script, i installed it a few month ago, i don’t remember :D

If i’m testing new settings i use pm2 restart mm for example. npm i’m just using to install new modules.

bhepler

@DirkS Interesting. Following the instructions I found via the GitHub MagicMirror repository, the pm2 should be using /home/pi/mm.sh to start the magic mirror process. Editing this file and appending DEV should give you the web browser console with log.

done

Hi and thanks to everybody making this module work!

@cpramhofer Did your solution solve the issue that the monitor did not switch on again after a longer period of time?

bhepler

@done Wait, does it work for you? Because it’s not working for me and this is the last thing I need before my mirror is done.

done

@bhepler Sorry, I haven’t tried yet. :)
I installed the cam and the module yesterday and motion detection worked.
But I experienced the same issue this morning. Wake up problem is not solved.

strawberry 3.141

@done propably everything is working for you guys and you can just see the screensaver, be sure to disable the screensaver

done

Hi @strawberry-3.141
Thanks for your answer
I disabled the screensaver by editing (found here
Is that what you had in mind?

sudo nano /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

@lxpanel --profile LXDE-pi
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi
#@xscreensaver -no-splash

@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank
@unclutter

Strange that my camera driver was not working today.
I had to activate the cam in the pi config again.

In the morning the cam led was on but when I tried to wake up the monitor the led just turned off.

I use a v1.3 cam on a rpi3.

strawberry 3.141

@done Personally I don’t have a mirror myself, but I heard from other users in this forum they had problems with the screensaver when they tried to wake up the mirror using my voice module. They could see the mirror got brighter, but the screen was still black because of the screensaver. I would connect a mouse or keyboard and do some action to see if there is a screensaver active.

done

@strawberry-3.141 Ok, I’ll give it a try. Tomorrow morning, I will test again. Thx!

bibi

hello! as understood there are 2 topics ongoing here "PIR module of @cowboysdude " and "motiondetector of @alexyak ". I will not ask which is the best module, you both did a great job, thx!
don’t take it bad but i just wanted to have opinions and feedback on which one is running currently without any, less issues please? (i am starting my mirror and don’t want to be too much demanding on the forum if not working - wise ;-))

@cowboysdude : i have already implemented Paviro’s module to test and i wanted to know if i should remove it before installing your one?

Thx in advance for your relpies and have a good day/eve :)

cowboysdude

@bibi said in Motion Detector:

hello! as understood there are 2 topics ongoing here "PIR module of @cowboysdude " and "motiondetector of @alexyak ". I will not ask which is the best module, you both did a great job, thx!
don’t take it bad but i just wanted to have opinions and feedback on which one is running currently without any, less issues please? (i am starting my mirror and don’t want to be too much demanding on the forum if not working - wise ;-))

@cowboysdude : i have already implemented Paviro’s module to test and i wanted to know if i should remove it before installing your one?

Thx in advance for your relpies and have a good day/eve :)

Honestly I will you this… I liked the motion sensor BUT @ianperrin worked out a module scheduler that I liked much better! I can turn modules off and on at specific times and turn it all off when I"m not home only to have it back on again when I arrive home.

All-in-all it really depends on your needs. NOTHING is without issues of some kind. I just really disliked the PIR sensor sticking out …

I hoped this help you in some way.

OH but of course @strawberry-3-141 also made a voice module that you can just tell the mirror to turn off too :) The usb mike is about the same price as a pir sensor!!! It’s REALLY awesome!!!

cowboysdude

@done said in Motion Detector:

@strawberry-3.141 Ok, I’ll give it a try. Tomorrow morning, I will test again. Thx!

WORST case senario is you install a screen saver program and disable it… period. :)

bibi

@cowboysdude 1st thx for taking time to reply. much appriciated! the PIR is ok but as it needs to get hidden somewhere, etc it’s less convinent. Yes you are right, the solution depends on my personnal need… i just need a way to switch on MM when i am in front of it BUT also completly switch off the monitor when nothing detected and not only the MM.
oh great, i will check @strawberry-3-141 module for sure!
@IngmarSwart also designed a solution with motion detection with a Picam behind the glass which seems to be nice to. i let you check it if interest…

by the way, do i have to remove Paviro module to install your one?
i couldn’t find @strawberry-3-141 module… can you pls forward me the link?

bhepler

@strawberry-3.141 said in Motion Detector:

@done propably everything is working for you guys and you can just see the screensaver, be sure to disable the screensaver

Negative. The screensaver has been disabled but the motiondetection module isn’t working. I gave the Facial Recognition module a try, but with the camera behind the glass, there isn’t enough light to train the system to recognize anyone.

At this point, I’m considering downgrading my chromium to something without the new security “features”.

bhepler

I’m still working this problem. To help with @paphko 's concern about processor utilization, I finally figured out how and where to put a delay in the main image comparison loop. @alexyak is using the RequestAnimationFrame feature to run the comparison as fast as the browser can render the UI.

If you wish to include a delay, modify your motion.js file’s main function to read as such:

function main(frequency) {
	render();

	if(rendering == true) {
		setTimeout(function() {
			raf(main.bind(this));
		}, 500);
	}
}

That last number (the 500) is the milliseconds between each image comparison. I think half a second between comparisons is enough to keep the CPU usage down and the effectiveness up.

done

Thx @bhepler
this helped to reduce my temperature from 80 °C to 50-60 °C.
Maybe the 80 °C even caused the wake up problem? :)

Anyway, I think I’ll try the voice activation module tomorrow.
Somehow it’s even very sweet to say “Mirror, Mirror on the wall. Wake up!”.

DirkS

That is the reason why my screen doesn’t switch on after a couple of hrs switched off.
Any idea what the cause of unavailable tvservice is?

Testwise i used the scripts reported here before. They where called if a PIR detects motion or no motion.

Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.138649] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.138665] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.138670] detected fb_set_par error, error code: -22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.139138] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.139148] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.139152] detected fb_set_par error, error code: -22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140642] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140654] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140659] detected fb_set_par error, error code: -22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140777] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140785] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140789] detected fb_set_par error, error code: -22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140856] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140863] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140868] bcm2708_fb_pan_display(0,0) returns=-22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty6.
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.256398] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.256413] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.256418] detected fb_set_par error, error code: -22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.256758] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.256770] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.256775] bcm2708_fb_pan_display(0,0) returns=-22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.296428] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00040002 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.296455] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: bcm2708_fb_blank(0) failed: -22

2016.11.01 08:05:04 2: KuMagicScreen: {system("sudo /opt/fhem/monitor_off.sh &")}: -1
tvservice-client: Failed to connect to TV service: -1
[E] Failed to power off HDMI
Powering off HDMI
2016.11.01 08:05:57 2: KuMagicScreen: {system("sudo /opt/fhem/monitor_on.sh &")}: -1
tvservice-client: Failed to connect to TV service: -1
[E] Failed to set property 4
2016.11.01 08:07:37 2: KuMagicScreen: {system("sudo /opt/fhem/monitor_off.sh &")}: -1
tvservice-client: Failed to connect to TV service: -1
[E] Failed to power off HDMI
Powering off HDMI
2016.11.01 08:09:00 2: KuMagicScreen: {system("sudo /opt/fhem/monitor_on.sh &")}: -1
tvservice-client: Failed to connect to TV service: -1
[E] Failed to set property 4
2016.11.01 08:09:42 2: KuMagicScreen: {system("sudo /opt/fhem/monitor_off.sh &")}: -1
tvservice-client: Failed to connect to TV service: -1
[E] Failed to power off HDMI
Powering off HDMI
2016.11.01 08:09:59 2: KuMagicScreen: {system("sudo /opt/fhem/monitor_on.sh &")}: -1
tvservice-client: Failed to connect to TV service: -1
[E] Failed to set property 4
ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
2016.11.01 08:10:41 2: KuMagicScreen: {system("sudo /opt/fhem/monitor_off.sh &")}: -1
tvservice-client: Failed to connect to TV service: -1
[E] Failed to power off HDMI
Powering off HDMI
ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
2016.11.01 08:21:59 2: KuMagicScreen: {system("sudo /opt/fhem/monitor_on.sh &")}: -1
tvservice-client: Failed to connect to TV service: -1
[E] Failed to set property 4
2016.11.01 08:22:50 2: KuMagicScreen: {system("sudo /opt/fhem/monitor_off.sh &")}: -1
tvservice-client: Failed to connect to TV service: -1
[E] Failed to power off HDMI
Powering off HDMI

DirkS

So here i found a workaround. Maybe it fixes the issue but let’s see. I just modified my test script and need to see it the next hrs/days

https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/pull/245/files

https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/487