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dazza120

@sdetweil thanks ive done this command chmod +x external_motion but i don’t see an outcome it just re turns to pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake

whole commandline below

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake $ chmod +x external_motion

sdetweil

@dazza120 right. That makes my script executable, so motion can execute it

Now u will see files appear in the MMM-SleepWake/motion folder

When the motion module detects motion, and when it ends.

My module uses those files

sdetweil

@sdetweil u start the motion tool with sudo motion &

And u can see it’s actions in /var/log/motion/motion.log

The tail command will show you the last few lines (default 20) of a file

dazza120

@sdetweil i’ll have a look tomorrow, thanks very much for your help much appreciated for your help

dazza120

@sdetweil not sure its supposed to look like this

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo motion &
[1] 28276
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ [0:motion] [ALR] [ALL] conf_load: could not open configfile /usr/local/etc/motion/motion.conf: No such file or directory
[0:motion] [CRT] [ALL] conf_load: No config file to process, using default values
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using default log level (NTC) (6)
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Logging to syslog
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Motion 4.2.1+git20181209-7bd179c Started
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using default log type (ALL)
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using log type (ALL) log level (NTC)
[0:motion] [NTC] [ENC] ffmpeg_global_init: ffmpeg libavcodec version 57.64.101 libavformat version 57.56.101
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] translate_init: Language: English
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0 Camera Name: (null) Device: /dev/video0
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] main: Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 28281
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_init: Camera 0 started: motion detection Enabled
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] vid_start: Opening V4L2 device
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_device_open: Using videodevice /dev/video0 and input -1
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_device_capability: - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_device_capability: - READWRITE
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_device_capability: - STREAMING
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_input_select: Name = "ov534"- CAMERA
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_norm_select: Device does not support specifying PAL/NTSC norm
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_pixfmt_select: Configuration palette index 17 (YU12) for 640x480 doesn't work.

mdhenriksen

@dazza120 Hey Dazza. Post it in the code-block you can use in the editor. Otherwise it’s hard to read your code/output.

dazza120

@mdhenriksen not sure why it came out like that but i am doing it via vnc on my phone lol thank you that should be sorted now

sdetweil

@dazza120 Hm… mine says
[-1191364720:motion] [NTC] [ALL] conf_load: Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion.conf

dazza120

@sdetweil hi for some reason I have no motion.conf file in there, but I was getting tones of video clips stored in /home/Pi folder, can you tell me the best remove command for motion project as I’ll start again from scratch and looking at one of the files in the home/Pi folder it said
Install complete! The default configuration file, motion-dist.conf, has been
installed to /usr/local/etc/motion. You need to rename/copy it to motion.conf
for Motion to find it. More configuration examples as well as init scripts
can be found in /usr/local/share/motion/examples.