[Motion-user] An event/signal to trigger motion to make a video ?

[Brent P. <bre...@ai...>]

Hi,

I am sure I saw this in a thread but I cannot find it.

Is there a method/patch to allow an external (command line) program to agitate motion into
starting a motion event?

I would like to capture a picture (jpeg) and a movie (mpeg) for a certain time without having to
wait for motion to be detected.

Perhaps SIGUSR1 ? I wonder how such a mechanism would work with multiple camera feeds.

Thanks

Brent