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Today's Topics:
1. events triggered by lost connections (Frank W. Samuelson)
2. Overlapping images (Chris Dennis)
3. Re: Overlapping images (tosiara)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 22:41:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Frank W. Samuelson" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Motion-user] events triggered by lost connections
To: [email protected]
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1. I like motion, and have been using it for years.
It works wonderfully. Thanks to all who have contributed.
2. Motion occassionally loses contact with my IP webcam.
This creates a video with a greyed-out region, like
http://www.merrill-samuelson.com/permanent_display/shot1.jpeg
Usually the connection is re-established shortly afterward.
However, every time this glitch happens, an event is
generated and my on_event_start script is executed.
Normally these occassional glitches have not bothered me,
but now I have hooked my computer to an electronic water hose
valve to shower the stray cats who are spraying my house
every night, and I need to have a lower false positive rate.
I tried setting the minimum_motion_frames to something
higher, like 5, thinking that only one frame should really
change with the connection is lost. However this has not
helped and every lost connection still creates an event.
Is there an easy way to keep lost connections from
generating events like this?
Or is it time for me to hack the code?
I am using motion-3.3.0.trunkREV557-10.el7.nux.x86_64
Thanks for any tips.
-Frank
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 14:18:43 +0100
From: Chris Dennis <[email protected]>
Subject: [Motion-user] Overlapping images
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hello Motion users
I've got a webcam running in a nesting box, but the picture quality is very
poor: whenever there is movement, frames get torn and overlapped.
For example, see http://birdbox.chrisdennis.co.uk/camera2-overlap.jpg
The feed at http://birdbox.chrisdennis.co.uk goes via Paparazzo.js from
https://github.com/rodowi/Paparazzo.js
Any suggestions? I've tried tweaking various settings.
Here are the details:
* Motion-mmal from https://github.com/dozencrows/motion/tree/mmal-test
* Running on Raspbian on a Raspberry PI B+
* Cheap analogue camera providing a composite feed via...
* ...EasyCAP video to USB gadget (like this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Easy-Cap-VHS-To-DVD-Audio-Video-Converter-Capture-Card-Adapter-USB-UK-Stock-/301558215736)
...
* ...which shows up as /dev/video0. 'lsusb -v' says:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1b71:3002
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x1b71
idProduct 0x3002
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 3 fushicai
iProduct 4 usbtv007
iSerial 2 300000000002
* Images and video stored on an external USB hard disk
And the config files:
#motion-mmal.conf:
daemon off
process_id_file /var/run/motion/motion.pid
setup_mode off
logfile /media/wd120/birdbox/motion.logfile
log_file /media/wd120/birdbox/motion.log_file
log_level 6
log_type all
input -1
norm 0
frequency 0
rotate 0
width 320
height 256
framerate 2
minimum_frame_time 0
netcam_keepalive off
netcam_tolerant_check off
auto_brightness off
brightness 0
contrast 0
saturation 0
hue 0
roundrobin_frames 1
roundrobin_skip 1
switchfilter off
threshold 350
threshold_tune off
noise_level 32
noise_tune on
despeckle_filter EedDl
area_detect 2,4,5,7,8
smart_mask_speed 0
lightswitch 0
minimum_motion_frames 2
pre_capture 0
post_capture 0
event_gap 3
max_movie_time 1800
emulate_motion off
output_pictures on
output_debug_pictures off
output_secondary_pictures on
quality 80
picture_type jpeg
ffmpeg_output_movies on
ffmpeg_output_debug_movies off
ffmpeg_output_secondary_movies on
ffmpeg_timelapse 300
ffmpeg_timelapse_mode daily
ffmpeg_bps 0
ffmpeg_variable_bitrate 15
ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4
ffmpeg_deinterlace on
use_extpipe off
extpipe_secondary on
snapshot_interval 0
locate_motion_mode off
locate_motion_style redbox
text_right %Y-%m-%d\n%T-%q
text_changes off
text_event %Y%m%d%H%M%S
text_double on
target_dir /media/wd120/birdbox/
snapshot_filename %Y-%m-%d/%H/%Y%m%d%H%M%S-snapshot
picture_filename %Y-%m-%d/%H/%Y%m%d%H%M%S-%q
movie_filename %Y-%m-%d/%H/%Y%m%d%H%M%S
timelapse_filename %Y-%m-%d/%Y%m%d-timelapse
ipv6_enabled off
stream_port 8081
stream_quality 90
stream_motion on
stream_secondary on
stream_maxrate 2
stream_localhost off
stream_limit 0
stream_auth_method 0
webcontrol_port 0
webcontrol_localhost off
webcontrol_html_output on
track_type 0
track_auto off
track_iomojo_id 0
track_step_angle_x 10
track_step_angle_y 10
track_move_wait 10
track_speed 255
track_stepsize 40
quiet on
thread /home/pi/mmal/thread1.conf
#thread1.conf:
videodevice /dev/video0
input -1
norm 0
frequency 0
rotate 0
width 352
height 288
text_left Nan and Pop's Birdbox
stream_port 8081
avconv doesn't seem to like it much:
$ sudo avconv -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 test1.avi
avconv version 9.14-6:9.14-1rpi1rpi1, Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the Libav
developers
built on Jul 22 2014 15:08:12 with gcc 4.6 (Debian 4.6.3-14+rpi1)
[video4linux2 @ 0x162b5e0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be
inaccurate
Input #0, video4linux2, from '/dev/video0':
Duration: N/A, start: 326159.516607, bitrate: 165888 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, yuyv422, 720x576, 165888 kb/s, 1000k tbn, 25
tbc
File 'test1.avi' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
[mpeg4 @ 0x162c1e0] timebase 1/1000000 not supported by MPEG 4 standard, the
maximum admitted value for the timebase denominator is 65535
Output #0, avi, to 'test1.avi':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 720x576, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn,
1000k tbc
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (rawvideo -> mpeg4)
Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters
such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
You can probably tell that I'm not an expert at any of this. But a better
picture would help to amuse the grandchildren.
Cheers,
Chris
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 17:21:15 +0300
From: tosiara <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Overlapping images
To: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>
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This seems to be known issue reported few time, like this:
http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/SupportQuestion2012x02x27x155712
The only workaround - don't use threads. Start two instances of motion
process instead
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Chris Dennis <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello Motion users
>
> I've got a webcam running in a nesting box, but the picture quality is
> very poor: whenever there is movement, frames get torn and overlapped.
>
> For example, see http://birdbox.chrisdennis.co.uk/camera2-overlap.jpg
>
> The feed at http://birdbox.chrisdennis.co.uk goes via Paparazzo.js from
> https://github.com/rodowi/Paparazzo.js
>
> Any suggestions? I've tried tweaking various settings.
>
> Here are the details:
>
> - Motion-mmal from https://github.com/dozencrows/motion/tree/mmal-test
> - Running on Raspbian on a Raspberry PI B+
> - Cheap analogue camera providing a composite feed via...
> - ...EasyCAP video to USB gadget (like this:
>
> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Easy-Cap-VHS-To-DVD-Audio-Video-Converter-Capture-Card-Adapter-USB-UK-Stock-/301558215736)
> ...
> - ...which shows up as /dev/video0. 'lsusb -v' says:
>
> Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1b71:3002
> Device Descriptor:
> bLength 18
> bDescriptorType 1
> bcdUSB 2.00
> bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
> bDeviceSubClass 0
> bDeviceProtocol 0
> bMaxPacketSize0 64
> idVendor 0x1b71
> idProduct 0x3002
> bcdDevice 1.00
> iManufacturer 3 fushicai
> iProduct 4 usbtv007
> iSerial 2 300000000002
>
> - Images and video stored on an external USB hard disk
>
> And the config files:
>
> #motion-mmal.conf:
> daemon off
> process_id_file /var/run/motion/motion.pid
> setup_mode off
> logfile /media/wd120/birdbox/motion.logfile
> log_file /media/wd120/birdbox/motion.log_file
> log_level 6
> log_type all
> input -1
> norm 0
> frequency 0
> rotate 0
> width 320
> height 256
> framerate 2
> minimum_frame_time 0
> netcam_keepalive off
> netcam_tolerant_check off
> auto_brightness off
> brightness 0
> contrast 0
> saturation 0
> hue 0
> roundrobin_frames 1
> roundrobin_skip 1
> switchfilter off
> threshold 350
> threshold_tune off
> noise_level 32
> noise_tune on
> despeckle_filter EedDl
> area_detect 2,4,5,7,8
> smart_mask_speed 0
> lightswitch 0
> minimum_motion_frames 2
> pre_capture 0
> post_capture 0
> event_gap 3
> max_movie_time 1800
> emulate_motion off
> output_pictures on
> output_debug_pictures off
> output_secondary_pictures on
> quality 80
> picture_type jpeg
> ffmpeg_output_movies on
> ffmpeg_output_debug_movies off
> ffmpeg_output_secondary_movies on
> ffmpeg_timelapse 300
> ffmpeg_timelapse_mode daily
> ffmpeg_bps 0
> ffmpeg_variable_bitrate 15
> ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4
> ffmpeg_deinterlace on
> use_extpipe off
> extpipe_secondary on
> snapshot_interval 0
> locate_motion_mode off
> locate_motion_style redbox
> text_right %Y-%m-%d\n%T-%q
> text_changes off
> text_event %Y%m%d%H%M%S
> text_double on
> target_dir /media/wd120/birdbox/
> snapshot_filename %Y-%m-%d/%H/%Y%m%d%H%M%S-snapshot
> picture_filename %Y-%m-%d/%H/%Y%m%d%H%M%S-%q
> movie_filename %Y-%m-%d/%H/%Y%m%d%H%M%S
> timelapse_filename %Y-%m-%d/%Y%m%d-timelapse
> ipv6_enabled off
> stream_port 8081
> stream_quality 90
> stream_motion on
> stream_secondary on
> stream_maxrate 2
> stream_localhost off
> stream_limit 0
> stream_auth_method 0
> webcontrol_port 0
> webcontrol_localhost off
> webcontrol_html_output on
> track_type 0
> track_auto off
> track_iomojo_id 0
> track_step_angle_x 10
> track_step_angle_y 10
> track_move_wait 10
> track_speed 255
> track_stepsize 40
> quiet on
> thread /home/pi/mmal/thread1.conf
>
> #thread1.conf:
> videodevice /dev/video0
> input -1
> norm 0
> frequency 0
> rotate 0
> width 352
> height 288
> text_left Nan and Pop's Birdbox
> stream_port 8081
>
> avconv doesn't seem to like it much:
>
> $ sudo avconv -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 test1.avi
> avconv version 9.14-6:9.14-1rpi1rpi1, Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the Libav
> developers
> built on Jul 22 2014 15:08:12 with gcc 4.6 (Debian 4.6.3-14+rpi1)
> [video4linux2 @ 0x162b5e0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be
> inaccurate
> Input #0, video4linux2, from '/dev/video0':
> Duration: N/A, start: 326159.516607, bitrate: 165888 kb/s
> Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, yuyv422, 720x576, 165888 kb/s, 1000k tbn,
> 25 tbc
> File 'test1.avi' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
> [mpeg4 @ 0x162c1e0] timebase 1/1000000 not supported by MPEG 4 standard, the
> maximum admitted value for the timebase denominator is 65535
> Output #0, avi, to 'test1.avi':
> Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 720x576, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn,
> 1000k tbc
> Stream mapping:
> Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (rawvideo -> mpeg4)
> Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect
> parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
>
> You can probably tell that I'm not an expert at any of this. But a better
> picture would help to amuse the grandchildren.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
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