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[sdetweil]

@dazza120 https://motion-project.github.io/motion_build.html
To install via apt, open up a terminal window and type: sudo apt-get install motion

[dazza120]

@sdetweil said in MMM-voice ugly hdmi banner:

sudo apt-get install motion

Your joking! So is that the packaged installed with that command? As what I was looking at was totally different to this. Thanks for your help.

[sdetweil]

@dazza120 from github project page
Motion, a software motion detector. Home page: https://motion-project.github.io/

click documentation and then
https://motion-project.github.io/motion_guide.html

[dazza120]

@sdetweil i have followed it as best as i could i have the package installed and have located the motion folder in my user directory but for the life of me i cant find this motion.conf file to insert your script.

[sdetweil]

motion config is done in /etc/motion/motion.conf
i just added a line in the readme about that

[dazza120]

@sdetweil thank you, i have located it with your help, ill work on this when im not at work thanks, so its just a case of adding one of your scripts? think ill just use the start one

[sdetweil]

@dazza120 its just one script… external_motion… you pass it a parm, started or ended
you need to configue both started and ended, else it can’t sleep thinking motion is still going on

note that because it is in the /etc folder tree, you must use sudo in front of your editor to get write permission

[dazza120]

@sdetweil motion.conf won’t let me edit it, or rather the pi won’t any way around this?

[sdetweil]

sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf

nano or whatever editor you choose…

[sdetweil]

also just noticed that the execute bit is not set on the script… SO

cd modules/MMM-SleepWake
chmod +x external_motion

[dazza120]

@sdetweil so is it just this part i need to put on_event_start /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion started

[sdetweil]

@dazza120 correct… and right below it the same with ended as the parm for the motion ended notice

[dazza120]

@sdetweil im leaving it with the ; in the command line?

[sdetweil]

@dazza120 the example doesn’t have ;

on_event_start /home/{userid}/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion started

[dazza120]

@sdetweil no it this is what its like i hope this is correct?

# Command to be executed when an event starts. (default: none)
# An event starts at first motion detected after a period of no motion defined $
; on_event_start /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion sta$

# 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$

[sdetweil]

ok, that ; is a comment in the motion conf file, just like #… have to remove it

note that the on event end has an extra token there that neds to be removed
on_event_end value

[dazza120]

@sdetweil yes it is do i have to remove the # aswell?

[sdetweil]

@dazza120 no, there is no # on those two lines

[dazza120]

@sdetweil no on the two lines above it

[sdetweil]

@dazza120 no, those are comments to explain what these lines do