Motion Detection with RaspiCam, Non-Module version

dam4

@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.

yawns

@dam4
Are you running raspbian Jessie or Stretch?

Looks like the names where changed
Jessie: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libmysqlclient-dev
Stretch: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/default-libmysqlclient-dev

dam4

@yawns I am pretty sure I am running Jessie. How do I know for sure?

yawns

@dam4
In the terminal run cat /etc/os-release

Maybe you need to run sudo cat /etc/os-release

dam4

@yawns
It looks like I am running stretch. This is what I get;

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

jasonarends

@dam4 I had the same problem and couldn’t get the correct dependencies resolved, but I just got it to work on stretch by following the Abbreviated Building Guide instructions here: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/blob/master/motion_guide.html

I had already tried the way you did so I had the motion.conf from the other build which I had modified, and it worked with that version.

edit:

sudo apt-get install autoconf automake build-essential pkgconf libtool libzip-dev libjpeg-dev git libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libavdevice-dev
cd ~ 
git clone https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion.git 
cd motion 
autoreconf -fiv 
./configure 
make 
make install

dam4

@jasonarends
I just tried git clone https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion.git and it tells me this;

fatal: destination path ‘motion’ already exists and is not an empty directory.

I did a ls -al and it doesn’t show up as a directory. Should I remove the ‘motion’ that is in green from the home directory and try again?

I have to go to work so I will have to work on this tomorrow. Thank you for your help.

jasonarends

@dam4

yep, you have the original motion binary in your home directory still, you can just remove that.

dam4

@jasonarends
Thank you for your help. I have tried this and it seemed to install. The only thing I had an issue with was when I entered make install it would not create a directory and it failed. I then ran it as sudo make install and it seemed to install. I am running my MagicMirror now to see if it works. How long does it take to turn the monitor off? Again thank you for your help.

dam4

@jasonarends
How long does it take for the screen to blank out? So far the screen has stayed on and hasn’t even flickered. I have something in front of the Pi camera so it doesn’t pick up any movement and it has been over an hour now. Please help.