@mwel1977 get yourself MMM-RemoteControl and MMM-RemoteRepositories to get those modules updated easily, it will check through them and update automagically when you go into the html page

@sdetweil thanks done that, i seem to have a motion folder in this location /usr/local/etc/motion is the a folder that the pi had before do you know?

@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.

@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 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.

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

@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 ok cool so this is how i have it now

# Command to be executed when an event starts. (default: none)
# An event starts at first motion detected after a period of no motion defined by event_gap
 on_event_start /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion started

# Command to be executed when an event ends after a period of no motion
# (default: none). The period of no motion is defined by option event_gap.
 on_event_end /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion ended

@sdetweil no on the two lines above it

@sdetweil yes it is do i have to remove the # aswell?

@sdetweil no it this is what its like i hope this is correct?

# Command to be executed when an event starts. (default: none)
# An event starts at first motion detected after a period of no motion defined $
; on_event_start /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion sta$

# Command to be executed when an event ends after a period of no motion
# (default: none). The period of no motion is defined by option event_gap.
; on_event_end value /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion$

@idoodler no just git pull, I had to change the config file in calendar ie where to pull my calendar file from that was the only thing that changed, but the pull wouldn’t happen so I had to rename the folder in order for the pull to happen so that could have been the issue, but it created a new folder so not sure what went on.

@idoodler hi yeah done a git pull but it missed some of the contents of that folder.

@sdetweil im leaving it with the ; in the command line?

@sdetweil so is it just this part i need to put on_event_start /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion started

@sdetweil motion.conf won’t let me edit it, or rather the pi won’t any way around this?

@sdetweil thank you, i have located it with your help, ill work on this when im not at work thanks, so its just a case of adding one of your scripts? think ill just use the start one

@sdetweil i have followed it as best as i could i have the package installed and have located the motion folder in my user directory but for the life of me i cant find this motion.conf file to insert your script.

@sdetweil hi just to let you know the read me is missing the : by config. i really hope i can get this working as it could sort alot of my screen on problems

@sdetweil said in MMM-voice ugly hdmi banner:

sudo apt-get install motion

Your joking! So is that the packaged installed with that command? As what I was looking at was totally different to this. Thanks for your help.