Motion Detection with RaspiCam, Non-Module version

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.

jasonarends

@dam4
Hi, make sure that you’ve edited your motion.conf file that it is using according to the instructions in the original post:

framerate 4 - run the detection video at 4 frames per second
threshold 2500 - increase the # of pixels to trigger the screen. We want them to get close to the mirror
minimum_motion_frames 2 - Motion must be detected in 2 consecutive frames (at 4 FPS)
event_gap 60 - This is important. This is how long in seconds after no motion the screen will turn off.
output_pictures off - Do not save images
ffmpeg_output_movies off - Do not record video
stream_port 0 - Turn off remote viewing
webcontrol_port 0 - Turn off HTTP control of camera
on_event_start vcgencmd display_power 1 - Important! This is the command to turn on the screen
on_event_end vcgencmd display_power 0 - Important! This is the command to turn off the screen

I’ve copied my config here: https://pastebin.com/61hiygKX (edit: updated conf)
If you put motion.conf in /etc/motion it should pick it up by default without having to specify anything.

Make sure you’ve set the event_gap, on_event_start, and on_event_end at the very least for testing.

You can also just try running the command

vcgencmd display_power 0

by itself to make sure the command works to turn off the monitor.

dam4

@jasonarends
My motion.conf is located in my home directory. I looked for /etc/motion and I don’t have a directory called motion in /etc. So I made one and put motion.conf in there. My screen still doesn’t shut off. I did look over my motion.conf file and all my settings were exactly like yours. I did follow all the steps at the beginning of this post. I can also type in vcgencmd display_power 0 and it turns off the monitor and vcgencmd display_power 1 turns it back on. This is really getting frustrating. Thank you for your help.

I also copied your updated_motion.conf.sh and double checked it and they match with the exception yours has a .sh at the end where mine does not. Is it supposed to have the .sh on the end of the file name or did it get added due to it being uploaded?