Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Motion Detection with RaspiCam, Non-Module version
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@Kimzer - If the camera won’t even take a snapshot, then none of this is going to work. Have you tried the various tutorials about getting the PiCam to work? The ones that are at the basic level of “I enter this command and it takes a picture right then and there and I can download it”?
Start with the official Getting Started Guide. Once you can get images from the camera to your Pi, come back.
If you can get the camera to produce images but have trouble getting Motion to work, follow my tutorial and the part where it says “at this point you can test it but…”, stop there. Change the parameter in the
motion.conffile namedoutput_picturestoonand changeon_event_starttoecho Motion Detected!. That should put a bunch of snapshots on your memory card. Test Motion by entering./motion -c motion.confand you should see motion writing messages to the screen. -
Ah my bad, poorly formulated on my end here.
I am able to take snapshots, and i have gotten the camera to work just fine itself. It is the motion part i am struggling with.
But i will have to test some more.
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@bhepler It works perfectly !
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@bhepler I was hoping you could give me a hand. I’ve got your motion working but. Pm2 is not auto starting the motion. Everything is working fine if I manually “pm2 start motion” and " pm2 start mm" and I’ve tried adding @pm2 start motion to my auto start along side my “pm2 start mm” but that only breaks both processes. I’m trying to get both the magic mirror and the motion to auto start upon reboot.
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@stangarrang Sure, no problem. Quick question: Did you enter
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@bhepler yes that was one of the first things I did but after reboot nothing was saving. Actually just as you replied I went through a couple steps for pm2 startup plus the command that came after. After that I did a pm2 save and now things are working well :) thanks for your prompt reply!
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is it possible to use Motion to activate the screen and MMM-Facial-Recignition simultaneously? Maybe also use the
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@AnduriI It should be. The motion system will operate independently of the mirror and only controls the signal running down the HDMI cable to the monitor. The Pi camera and the Magic Mirror process are still running.
If you create a simple python script to control the pinouts on the Pi, you should be able to switch on some simple LED lights to illuminate the front of the mirror.
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@bhepler
Hello, I am a true n00b and I am having issues with your process for getting the Pi camera to work. I copied and pasted your first line exactly and I get the following.pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev libavformat56 libavformat-dev libavcodec56 libavcodec-dev libavutil54 libavutil-dev libc6-dev zlib1g-dev libmysqlclient18 libmysqlclient-dev libpq5 libpq-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package libmysqlclient-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source Package libmysqlclient18 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Unable to locate package libavformat56 E: Unable to locate package libavcodec56 E: Unable to locate package libavutil54 E: Package 'libmysqlclient18' has no installation candidate E: Package 'libmysqlclient-dev' has no installation candidate pi@raspberrypi:~ $What did I do wrong? Please help and thank you in advance.
