Re: [Motion-user] disabling a camera with a time parameter

[MrDave <mot...@gm...>]

What I've seen is that people use a bash script that pings their phone.  
If the ping returns then disable the camera(s), if not, then turn the 
camera(s) on.  Then use a crontab to run the script at some sort of 
frequent interval.

MrDave
On 10/23/2023 9:26 AM, Richard Bown wrote:
> Hi
> just 8 cams on my system, one really needs to be disabled during the
> day,
> At the moment I'm sending a script in homeassistant
>
> lounge_cam:
>          command_on: 'lwp-request
> http://localhost:7770/101/detection/start'
>          command_off: 'lwp-request
> http://localhost:7770/101/detection/pause'
>
> sorry for the line wrapping, it doesn't always work as verification is
> a pig to get to work,  So far I have failed ,
> I have logging set to 8 and I have tried to use grep to find the
> response to the lwp-request.
> If it was only just using it for a few hours at night, I could use
> crontab , but it also needs to be on if we are out or away from home.
> with 8 cameras and on log level 8 there is a lot being added to the
> logfile.
> Am I missing a simple way of doing this ???
>