Re: [Motion-user] How to show the little degrees symbol on text_left

[David P. <da...@de...>]

I had high hopes for this one, but alas, it does the same as pasting the 
symbol into the editor directly.
Motion apparently converts that symbol to "2January0" no matter how it's 
put in there.

Perhaps I'll just spell it out instead.  Thanks for trying!

David

On 01/20/2012 02:54 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 19 January 2012 22:20, David Powell<da...@de...>  wrote:
>> No joy here either.  The editor (Gnome gedit) simply ignores that
>> keystroke sequence.  I suspect, however, that if it did work, I would
>> get the same results as when I pasted the little ° symbol in there.
>>
>> Maybe I should expand a little on what I'm trying to do.  I have a wood
>> boiler that I am instrumenting, and have a Motion web cam aimed at it.
>> All I have so far regarding instrumentation is a temperature sensor for
>> the water tank.
>>
>> I have a simple cron job which reads the temperature sensor (along with
>> several others around the house) and writes them all to a file. Another
>> simple cron job fetches the file once every minute, finds the boiler
>> water temperature, and then performs a wget to Motion to set the
>> temperature.  It all works like a boss except the degrees symbol thing.
>>
>> Here's the script I'm using:
>> ======================
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>> open(FILE, "/var/tmp/temps.txt");
>> @temps =<FILE>;
>> close(FILE);
>> my $num = @temps[1];
>> system("wget","http://localhost:1800/3/config/set?text_left=Boiler ($num
>> F)");
> Since you are trying to pass the symbol in a URL I think you need to
> url encode it.  I am not sure but try %C2%B0.
>
> Colin

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