Re: [Motion-user] Start motion with inactive detection

[john b. <jo...@jo...>]

On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 23:43 +0200, Fritiof Hedman wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I wonder if there is some way to set one thread to start in "detection
> pause mode".
> Today I do this manually by running a script that calls
> http://127.0.0.1:8080/1/detection/pause (where 8080 is the
> control_port and 1 is the thread number) but I think that's
> unnessecary. I do this, because I use network cameras with built-in
> motion detection that calls a script that sets output_all on motion
> and sets that option to off when there's no motion again.
> 
> This is to decrease the CPU usage, since I'm running Motion on a quite
> slow machine.

hey fritiof - i think that is the only way to do it.  you might combine
it in another script  and call that to start motion.  one line to start
moton and a second line to invoke the pause.

john
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