Re: [Motion-user] Higher quality sensors instead of pixel-based motion detection... Possible?

[Scott W. L. <sc...@wb...>]

On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 22:50 -0400, Jason Sauders wrote:
> Just a random thought, is it possible to integrate some sort of more
> advanced sensor to trigger motion events beyond the default pixel
> based method? For example, I think it'd be interesting to integrate
> some sort of a thermal camera into the mix.

That kind of defeats the main purpose of motion -- to detect motion. If
you only want to capture video, there are many other applications to do
that. For example my burglar alarm triggers my computer to start
recording video from two web cams by starting two mencoder processes.