Hi all,
I just come back on this topic because I followed the install process as described by hawking:
@hawking said in Motion Detector:
@Natacha3
Are you aware of https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/988/motion-detection-with-raspicam-non-module-version
The linked thread provides a precompiled version of Motion and some recommended settings.
So I just open a command window and do the following command ./motion -c motion.conf
then I open another window and I start the MagicMirror with npm start
Everything works fine for a couple of hours then the Mirror stays dark
I do a CTRL Q
and in the motion window I get the following :
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 3.998576 idle 63.46% over 0.00%
[1] [NTC] [EVT] event_newfile: File of type 2 saved to: /run/shm/lastsnap.jpg
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 3.998768 idle 61.99% over 0.00%
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 3.999344 idle 62.23% over 0.00%
[1] [NTC] [EVT] event_newfile: File of type 2 saved to: /run/shm/lastsnap.jpg
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 3.998928 idle 62.18% over 0.00%
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 3.998960 idle 62.16% over 0.00%
[1] [NTC] [EVT] event_newfile: File of type 2 saved to: /run/shm/lastsnap.jpg
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 3.999136 idle 62.54% over 0.00%
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 3.995844 idle 61.22% over 0.00%
[1] [NTC] [EVT] event_newfile: File of type 2 saved to: /run/shm/lastsnap.jpg
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 3.997186 idle 61.51% over 0.00%
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 4.001200 idle 62.69% over 0.00%
[1] [NTC] [EVT] event_newfile: File of type 2 saved to: /run/shm/lastsnap.jpg
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 3.999360 idle 60.96% over 0.00%
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 3.998641 idle 59.35% over 0.00%
[1] [NTC] [EVT] event_newfile: File of type 2 saved to: /run/shm/lastsnap.jpg
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 3.999232 idle 59.59% over 0.00%
[1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: fps: 3.999088 idle 58.86% over 0.00%
[0] [ERR] [ALL] main: Thread 1 - Watchdog timeout, trying to do a graceful restart
[0] [ERR] [ALL] main: Thread 1 - Watchdog timeout, did NOT restart graceful,killing it!
[0] [INF] [ALL] motion_cleanup: Calling vid_close() from motion_cleanup
[0] [INF] [VID] vid_close: calling video source cleanup
[0] [ALR] [VID] MMAL Camera cleanup
So I can see that some detection occured properly and pictures have been saved in /run/shm/lastsnap.jpg
(I checked, this function is deactivated but … anyway ! Only 1 pic is stored so it’s not a matter of folder flooded)
The Watchdog timeout would be a possible lead but google does not help me so much as so many different issues are linked… :cry:
I hope that you will forgive me if I asked a stupid question and what you will be rather indulgent not to turn me down !