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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Use of ${host}?? (Jack Christensen)
2. Moderator? (David Powell)
3. Re: Moderator? (Alan McKay)
4. Re: Use of ${host}?? (Pascal Martin)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 15:33:17 -0500
From: Jack Christensen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Use of ${host}??
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi Mark,
I set the parameter exactly as in your email:
text_left CAMERA %{host} %t
...and saw the expected results.
I installed 4.2.1 from the deb package as documented here
<https://motion-project.github.io/motion_build.html>. Very easy, hardly
any more trouble than using apt, and then modprobe is not necessary. I
do have the Pi camera configured as mmal so that might be another
difference. Good luck!
On 1/2/19 1:52 PM, Mark Hinch wrote:
> Jack:
>
> Thanks for the quick feedback and the idea. There are other *conf
> files in the /etc/motion
> directory, but none seem to be getting pulled in -- the "camera" and
> "camera_dir" directives
> are both commented out.. Also, my "text_left" changes are getting
> recognized, they just are
> not displaying the expected out (i.e., "host" as opposed to my actual
> hostname).
>
> The only difference I can see is versions -- I'm on Motion 4.0 and
> you? are on 4.2.1. A very
> quick scan of recent GIT activity does not appear to show changes in
> this area, but ...
> Normal rasbian updates will only allow me to get to 4.1.1, and that
> with some difficulty.
>
> Would you mind sending me the exact text_left (or whatever) string you
> used that showed
> your actual hostname? I suspect a syntax problem, though I've tried
> enclosing %{host} in ", ', ` all
> with no success.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Mark
>
>
> On 1/2/2019 10:59 AM, Jack Christensen wrote:
>>
>> Seems to works fine here, RPi Zero W, Raspbian Lite 2018-11-13,
>> Motion 4.2.1, RPi v2 camera.
>>
>> Check around for extra/stray config files. I had an extra config file
>> in my home directory and didn't realize it. When I changed parameters
>> in my "real" config file, some would take effect and others not.
>>
>> On 1/2/19 11:24 AM, Mark Hinch wrote:
>>> I'm attempting to make use of ${host} in the "text_left" config
>>> option and
>>> ultimately in an SQL INSERT. It does not seem to be working for me:
>>>
>>> On a working system I change text_left in motion.conf to:
>>> ??? text_left CAMERA %{host} %t
>>> After sending SIGHUP to motion, the display on the lower left of the
>>> web page is:
>>> ??? CAMERA? host? 0
>>> My host name (/etc/hostname) is not "host".
>>>
>>> I'm probably doing something simple wrong -- I'd appreciate any tips.
>>>
>>> Big picture config:
>>> - Raspberry Pi
>>> - Raspian OS
>>> - Rasperry Pi Camera
>
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 14:44:44 -0600
From: David Powell <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Motion-user] Moderator?
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I sent a post to the user list a few days ago and got a reply saying:
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I haven't heard anything about it since.? I should have known better
than to try including inline photos.
Do we have a moderator?? Perhaps out of town for the holidays? Should I
shrink the photos and resubmit?
David
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 16:18:34 -0500
From: Alan McKay <[email protected]>
To: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Moderator?
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Just send a new message with a link to photos on imgur or some other site
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 16:03:27 -0800
From: Pascal Martin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Use of ${host}??
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According to github, the support for %{host} appeared first in 4.1. The
motion.c code for 4.0 does not have the change.
Pascal.
From: Mark Hinch <[email protected]>
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 12:52:03 -0600
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Use of ${host}??
Jack:
Thanks for the quick feedback and the idea. There are other *conf files in
the /etc/motion
directory, but none seem to be getting pulled in -- the "camera" and
"camera_dir" directives
are both commented out.. Also, my "text_left" changes are getting
recognized, they just are
not displaying the expected out (i.e., "host" as opposed to my actual
hostname).
The only difference I can see is versions -- I'm on Motion 4.0 and you are
on 4.2.1. A very
quick scan of recent GIT activity does not appear to show changes in this
area, but ...
Normal rasbian updates will only allow me to get to 4.1.1, and that with
some difficulty.
Would you mind sending me the exact text_left (or whatever) string you used
that showed
your actual hostname? I suspect a syntax problem, though I've tried
enclosing %{host} in ", ', ` all
with no success.
Thanks
-Mark
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