[Motion-user] Motion, MRTG, stats, graphing

[Peter S. <pet...@ut...>]

I just realized that there could be a very serious use for a facility 
within Motion to provide "motion" statistics to a command-line.  If we 
already have this, let me know.  If we can pull out of motion the 
current # of motion amount, then we could make a graph using MRTG, for 
instance, that would show the amount of activity with respect to each 
thread/cam and at what time.  Could be useful for finding out sort-of 
what happened during a day, generate a base-line for normal activity, 
pin-point abnormal activity, and also summarize motion recorded..  Also 
usefull would be for each line of "motion stat" would be to also give 
the thresh-hold required to generate motion, so that a grapher could 
generically display on the graph where a movie would be found.

Also a possibility would be to get stats on how many captures, 
snapshots, etc have been captured thus far.  MRTG is good at graphing 
forward-rolling statistics, so making a usage graph is simple.

Again, let me know if we already have this capability, as I do not 
believe we do.

Thanks,
Peter