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Today's Topics:
1. Re: constatus (John Byrne)
2. What happened to webcam_port option in 4.01? (John Byrne)
3. Re: What happened to webcam_port option in 4.01? (MrDave)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 10:34:42 -0700
From: John Byrne <[email protected]>
To: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] constatus
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi John,
I see that there?s already a graphical user interface for motion called
motioneye. You might want to check this out.
I don?t think it?s worth re-inventing the wheel.
Thanks,
John Byrne
> On Aug 26, 2017, at 12:29 PM, TN Patriot <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:18:33 -0700
> John Byrne via Motion-user <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>> On Aug 20, 2017, at 3:07 PM, TN Patriot <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:07:51 +0200
>>> folkert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> For fun I wrote Constatus. It is like Motion but simpler and not as
>>>> advanced. Just because I can :-)
>>>> Maybe it has things that are interesting for Motion as well?
>>>> https://vanheusden.com/constatus/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>>
>>>> Folkert van Heusden
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for this, Folkert. Unfortunately, not being a programmer in any way,
>>> shape or form, I'm not sure how to go about installing/using it. I've been
>>> hoping someone would write up a gui for motion so I can use it, because as
>>> it is now, Motion and that other big one for Linux give me headaches trying
>>> to figure out just how to install them much less use them.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any assistance,
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> My name is John too. That?s a great development idea. I have programmed
>> User
>> Interfaces before and am interested in working with you (and whoever else
>> wants to join). One caveat, I haven?t done unix ui development for about 20
>> years. But I have done other UI Development recently (with Java.) The
>> technology I?m using (Motif, emacs, gcc, and XWindows) may be a little old.
>> I
>> tried setting up Eclipse C (CDT) environment and I couldn?t get it to work.
>> I
>> don?t think using Java is a good idea to develop the UI because the video
>> APIs
>> are non-existent. If an example of the camera view needs to be shown C/C++
>> is
>> a must, unless you want to deal with JNI/JNA or other Java/C/C++ interfacing
>> frameworks/tools.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, anything that would work in Linux would be fine, and
> as far as I know (remember, I'm not a programmer at all) anything written in
> C/C++ would be fast and safer than java. Hopefully that's what you were
> talking about in the above paragraph, heh.
>
>>
>> I also don?t have a GUI builder, it?s by hand, so it may be a little slower
>> than normal. However, it?s doable.
>
> Also as far as I'm concerned there's no rush. I've been waiting for a decade+
> to be able to use a motion detection program (had one working once years ago
> when I had an old Philips until the kernel driver people screwed it up and it
> stopped working correctly/well anymore), I can wait some more.
>
>> What did you (and others) have in mind for the first set of functionality to
>> write a GUI for? Any ideas? Or am I on my own with this? A GUI layout
>> would
>> be really nice! (That way I could get some idea of what I?m up against.)
>
> Not real sure. I guess just anything that would make setting it up originally
> and then adjusting settings, so long as not having to go into txt files can
> be
> done with it (I can do txt file changes, but it's less easy to understand and
> casn sometimes get screwed up by saving incorrectly or to the wrong place,
> etc).
>
>> Also, I was thinking, as first thoughts, the main interface between motion
>> and
>> configuration would be launching a few execs and modifying the config file
>> appropriately. However, this probably isn?t optimal. Ideally it would call
>> motion C code directly, using existing structures to print out the config
>> file. Any thoughts?
>
> Not sure what you just asked, lol...sorry.
>
>> I saw your comment about installing and think that it isn?t that difficult to
>> install. Simply an ?sudo apt-get install ?? command. I don?t think it?s
>> worth writing a UI to do just this. Unless you mean installing versions not
>> in the apt-get library. Then it may be worth while. Let me know what you
>> think.
>
> Too many distro's out there that use too many 'installation ways'. My distro
> for example, Slackware, doesn't do that apt-get thing and uses source code
> the
> most, but lately with things going to git and such confuse the heck out of me
> and I have yet to figure out how anyone downloads anything useful from one of
> those places :(
>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> John Byrne
>>
>
> Thank *YOU* for doing this and still wanting to after hearing from someone as
> dense as me, heh heh.
>
> John
>
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:14:54 -0700
From: John Byrne <[email protected]>
To: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: [Motion-user] What happened to webcam_port option in 4.01?
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi all,
I used to use the webcam_port option in a previous version of motion. What
happened to this option in 4.01?
Thanks,
John Byrne
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 14:20:55 -0600
From: MrDave <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] What happened to webcam_port option in
4.01?
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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The? mapping of the options can be viewed in the guide in the? "Listed
alphabetically with mapping of old option names to current names
<https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/blob/release-4.0.1/motion_guide.html#Configuration_OptionsAlpha>"
section.? The guide is installed with Motion as
/usr/share/doc/motion/motion_guide.html (assuming a standard apt-get
install)
The site that renders the Motion guide online is currently experiencing
some issues but you can try it via the following link.
https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/blob/release-4.0.1/motion_guide.html#Configuration_OptionsAlpha
(If the link reports "No definition found for Table headers" you can try
to refresh the page a few times)
MrDave
On 8/27/2017 1:14 PM, John Byrne via Motion-user wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I used to use the webcam_port option in a previous version of motion. What
> happened to this option in 4.01?
>
> Thanks,
> John Byrne
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