Re: [Motion-user] Faking a motion event

[Roman G. <rom...@gm...>]

makemovie didn't work for me, but these 2 generate and stop an event:

wget http://192.168.0.1:8080/0/config/set?output_all=on
wget http://192.168.0.1:8080/0/config/set?output_all=off

Thanks,

Roman

On 4 Sep 2007, at 10:45, Andy Brown wrote:

> Roman Gaufman wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> What I want to do is get motion to record video with sound whenever
>> there is either motion, or sound being detected. I have the
>> appropriate on_event_start and on_event_end ffmpeg commands to record
>> sound and join the audio and video files together (audio/video desync
>> but it's usable).
>>
>> But what I'm missing is a way to somehow force motion to record, i.e.
>> fake a motion event and let it follow my typical 30 seconds of
>> post_capture so that everytime motion gets a signal that there's an
>> event, it will record the next 30 seconds of video and audio.
>>
>> Is something like that possible?
>
> Hi Roman,
> I think what you're after is using the http interface to trigger  
> events.
> So using a script you could call:
> http://motionhost.mydomain.tld:port/2/action/makemovie
>
> (assuming this was thread2, obviously setting your IP/hostname and  
> port
> you have the http admin on).
>
> Take a look at http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/ 
> MotionHttpAPI
> Which should give you the right pointers.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Andy
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