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on_motion_start, on_motion_end - only starting/ending at start/end of motion

Question

Using a Microsoft Lifecam VX3000, plugged directly into a Raspberry Pi, no other peripherals.

This (I'm thinking, RTFM) involves setting up 'on_event_start' and 'on_event_end'.

I'm trying to get 'motion' to fire off a script when motion is detected, and when motion is not detected, with a gap of 2 seconds, the system seems to fire off the starting event when the system runs, and fires off the ending event when I hit 'control-C' to stop the process, but it isn't running as expected. I would think that once motion detection stops, the 'on_event_end' would fire.

Am I missing the obvious here?

I do get the occasional "Corrupt JPEG data" message, but I would think this isn't the critical point. When motion detection stops, after 2 seconds, the scripts should fire.

Output when running from command line:

pi@raspberrypi ~/.motion $ motion
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /home/pi/.motion/motion.conf
[0] Motion 3.2.12 Started
[0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3482368 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3478784
[0] Thread 1 is from /home/pi/.motion/motion.conf
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.12 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8081
[1] Thread 1 started
[1] cap.driver: "sonixj"
[1] cap.card: "USB camera"
[1] cap.bus_info: "usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3"
[1] cap.capabilities=0x05000001
[1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] - READWRITE
[1] - STREAMING
[1] Config palette index 8 (YU12) doesn't work.
[1] Supported palettes:
[1] 0: JPEG (JPEG)
[1] Selected palette JPEG
[1] Test palette JPEG (320x240)
[1] Using palette JPEG (320x240) bytesperlines 320 sizeimage 29390 colorspace 00000007
[1] found control 0x00980900, "Brightness", range 0,255
[1]     "Brightness", default 128, current 1
[1] found control 0x00980901, "Contrast", range 0,127
[1]     "Contrast", default 20, current 20
[1] found control 0x00980902, "Saturation", range 0,40
[1]     "Saturation", default 25, current 25
[1] found control 0x0098090e, "Red Balance", range 24,40
[1]     "Red Balance", default 32, current 32
[1] found control 0x0098090f, "Blue Balance", range 24,40
[1]     "Blue Balance", default 32, current 32
[1] found control 0x00980910, "Gamma", range 0,40
[1]     "Gamma", default 20, current 20
[1] mmap information:
[1] frames=4
[1] 0 length=32768
[1] 1 length=32768
[1] 2 length=32768
[1] 3 length=32768
[1] Using V4L2
[1] Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
[1] Started stream webcam server in port 8080
STARTING 1111111111
width= 176  height= 153  x= 175  y=  162
width= 199  height= 225  x= 222  y=  112
width= 160  height= 208  x= 243  y=  104
width= 94  height= 191  x= 275  y=  95
Corrupt JPEG data: 10257 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
^CENDING 0000000000
[1] Thread exiting
[1] Calling vid_close() from motion_cleanup
[1] Closing video device /dev/video0
[0] httpd - Finishing
[0] httpd Closing
[0] httpd thread exit
[0] Motion terminating
pi@raspberrypi ~/.motion $

The scripts to run:

pi@raspberrypi ~/.motion $ more echostart
echo STARTING 1111111111
pi@raspberrypi ~/.motion $ more echoend
echo ENDING 0000000000
pi@raspberrypi ~/.motion $


motion.conf:

# motion configuration file
daemon=off
auto_brightness=on
control_html_output=on
control_localhost=off
control_port=8081
framerate=5
height=240
width=320
# correct ratio (H=3:W=4) divisible by 16
#height=96
#width=128
on_motion_detected echo "width=" %i " height=" %J " x=" %K " y= " %L
on_event_start /home/pi/.motion/echostart gap 2
on_event_end /home/pi/.motion/echoend gap 2
output_all=off
output_motion=off
# for outputting coordinates
output_normal=off
locate=preview
# snapshot_interval=0 means snapshots are disabled
snapshot_interval=0
target_dir=/home/pi/temp
videodevice=/dev/video0
webcam_localhost=off
webcam_motion=on
webcam_port=8080

Environment

Motion version: 3.2.12
ffmpeg version: 0.8.4-6:0.8.4-1+rpi1
Libraries: ffmpeg
Server OS: Raspberry Pi (1.0) 3.2.27+
-- AndrewA - 18 Nov 2012

Answer

Continue to RTFM, I think (AndrewA):

In motion.conf, put the line in:

gap 2

For the on_event_start and on_event_end lines, just put in:

on_event_start /home/pi/.motion/echostart
on_event_end /home/pi/.motion/echoend

Works, with 2 second gap. Don't know if it is possible to set different gap lengths for start and end.

[Answering again...}

gap 2

on_event_start

gap 30

on_event_end

This allows on_event_start to fire after 2 seconds of motion, and on_event_end to fire 30 seconds after the end of motion.

Further testing, trying to do something like fire on_event_start to fire 30 seconds after continuous motion start, and on_event_end to fire 2 seconds after motion stoppage doesn't seem to work, however.

Also, no matter what gap is used, it seems 'on_event_start' always fires immediately after motion detection.

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TopicTitle on_motion_start, on_motion_end - only starting/ending at start/end of motion
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Topic revision: r1 - 18 Nov 2012, AndrewA
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