Re: [Motion-user] text on frames

[wilson <dir...@gm...>]

John,

Thanks,

Actually, your solutions is very similar to com...@my....

I will try to adapt both to my needs, and will give you, and the list, 
feedback.

Thanks a lot,

Wilson
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Em seg 27 jun 2011, às 16:47:55, john bray escreveu:
> On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 08:56 -0300, wilson wrote:
> > Hello, All
> > 
> > I have motion working, capturing from the first camera.
> > The plan are to associate a temp sensor to each one of the four cameras I
> > will have.
> > The system are collecting, already, the temps, and I have humidity and
> > pressure too.
> > every value can be read from a simple cat <sensor>
> > 
> > My question: how do I put the local temperature, pressure and humidity in
> > each frame captured from cameras?
> 
> hey wilson -
> 
> it's actually pretty simple.  if you go into your motion config web
> pages.  look at the list of options you can set from your browser.
> 
> one of them is text left.  (or right if you prefer).
> 
> try setting text left.  note the url that's left in your browser address
> bar.  in mine it is:
> http://cheetah:8080/0/config/set?text_left=CAMERA+%25t
> 
> after the equals sign is the text string.  try setting the text to
> various types of strings and you will see the pattern you will need.
> 
> you can use wget to do the same thing from a script.  the http server
> doesn't care who is asking for that set the text url.
> 
> so, if you write a script to wget that with your current data in the
> string, you can set it.  the /0/ in the url is means it's for all cams.
> your script can be run from cron at whatever intervals you want, and it
> will set the text left script to whatever you wish.
> 
> john