@sdetweil Thank you for sharing

@sdetweil Thanks sincerely for your time and your willingness. I would like to start to fork and try implement modification on some modules but I am not confident enough in Javascript. Do you have any suggestion for me. Where to start? Should I go with nodeJS basic tutorials?

@chanster @sdetweil Thanks for your help guys.
I understood my problem. I was trying to use facial recognition and motion detection at the same time with 2 different services. I can’t work with MMM-SleepWake and MMM-Face-Reco-DNN at the same time.

@sdetweil I am sorry to hear that. I hope you will have a fast recovery!
I don’t understand which parameters I am suppose to change inside motion.conf

I have also checked the documentation but sorry…I don’t get your point.
Here is the list of all the parameters linked to the HTTP based control :

############################################################
# HTTP Based Control
############################################################

# TCP/IP port for the http server to listen on (default: 0 = disabled)
webcontrol_port 8080
#webcontrol_port 0

# Restrict control connections to localhost only (default: on)
webcontrol_localhost on
#webcontrol_localhost off

# Output for http server, select off to choose raw text plain (default: on)
webcontrol_html_output on
#webcontrol_html_output off

# Authentication for the http based control. Syntax username:password
# Default: not defined (Disabled)
; webcontrol_authentication username:password

# Parameters to include on webcontrol.  0=none, 1=limited, 2=advanced, 3=restricted
# Default: 0 (none)
webcontrol_parms 0

@sdetweil

I have just found 8080 and 8081…there is no 8083.
I have changed them to 0:

# TCP/IP port for the http server to listen on (default: 0 = disabled)
#webcontrol_port 8080
webcontrol_port 0

# The mini-http server listens to this port for requests (default: 0 = disabled)
# stream_port  8081
stream_port 0

I have an error when I run:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo motion &
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

error:

[18.01.2021 17:45.26.632] [ERROR] Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
[18.01.2021 17:45.26.640] [ERROR] PythonShellError: mmal: mmal_vc_port_enable: failed to enable port vc.null_sink:in:0(OPQV): ENOSPC
mmal: mmal_port_enable: failed to enable connected port (vc.null_sink:in:0(OPQV))0x5b77ac0 (ENOSPC)
mmal: mmal_connection_enable: output port couldn't be enabled
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/tools/facerecognition.py", line 80, in <module>
    vs = VideoStream(usePiCamera=True, rotation=args["rotateCamera"]).start()
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/imutils/video/videostream.py", line 18, in __init__
    framerate=framerate, **kwargs)
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/imutils/video/pivideostream.py", line 10, in __init__
    self.camera = PiCamera()
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/picamera/camera.py", line 433, in __init__
    self._init_preview()
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/picamera/camera.py", line 513, in _init_preview
    self, self._camera.outputs[self.CAMERA_PREVIEW_PORT])
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/picamera/renderers.py", line 558, in __init__
    self.renderer.inputs[0].connect(source).enable()
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/picamera/mmalobj.py", line 2212, in enable
    prefix="Failed to enable connection")
  File "/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/picamera/exc.py", line 184, in mmal_check
    raise PiCameraMMALError(status, prefix)
picamera.exc.PiCameraMMALError: Failed to enable connection: Out of resources

    at PythonShell.parseError (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/node_modules/python-shell/index.js:254:21)
    at terminateIfNeeded (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/node_modules/python-shell/index.js:129:32)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/node_modules/python-shell/index.js:121:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:210:5)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12) {
  executable: '/home/pi/.virtualenvs/cv/bin/python3.7',
  options: null,
  script: 'modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/tools/facerecognition.py',
  args: [
    '--cascade=modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/tools/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml',
    '--encodings=modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/tools/encodings.pickle',
    '--usePiCamera=1',
    '--source=0',
    '--rotateCamera=0',
    '--method=dnn',
    '--detectionMethod=hog',
    '--interval=4000',
    '--output=0',
    '--extendDataset=False',
    '--dataset=modules/MMM-Face-Reco-DNN/dataset/',
    '--tolerance=0.6'
  ],
  exitCode: 1
}
[18.01.2021 17:45.26.642] [ERROR] MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
[18.01.2021 17:45.26.643] [ERROR] If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues
[18.01.2021 17:45.49.329] [LOG]   sleep-wake helper in socket notification=start_sleep

weird…

@sdetweil you mean that it’s normal if I don’t see the motion log when I run the mirror?

Hello @chanster,
How do you run your magic mirror project please?
@sdetweil I have tried:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo service motion start
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

Still nothing. And nothing appears in the log. I think this is the problem…

If I do:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo motion &
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

Then I get an error and the cam is playing my mirror but there, I have the log!!!

I think we are close…

By the way, I have also noticed that no log are generated in motion.log when I am using the mirror? The log is generated only when I do this command:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ motion

Is it normal?

@sdetweil the default setting is:

# Maximum number of frames to be captured per second.
# Valid range: 2-100. Default: 100 (almost no limit).
framerate 2

and I have changed the gap event from 60 to 15:

# Event Gap is the seconds of no motion detection that triggers the end of an event.
# An event is defined as a series of motion images taken within a short timeframe.
# Recommended value is 60 seconds (Default). The value -1 is allowed and disables
# events causing all Motion to be written to one single movie file and no pre_capture.
# If set to 0, motion is running in gapless mode. Movies don't have gaps anymore. An
# event ends right after no more motion is detected and post_capture is over.
event_gap 15

It sounds good, isn’t it?

I have also installed the module again :

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake $ npm install

and I have tried to use your module without using MMM-Face-Reco-DNN…
but still I don’t find the solution

@sdetweil said in MMM-SleepWake turn off but not turn on:

start/stop commands

You mean going to the terminal and write:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo service motion start
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo service motion stop

I have done it. nothing happened