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

[Richard B. <ri...@g8...>]

Hi, 
I'm dong something similar to that, by tracking both my phone and my
wifes, and if both are out or we have set a state switch we are away,
 the the lwp-request http....../pause is sent
and if either of us are in the 
lwp-request http......../start   is sent


and also at a time in the evening  the lwp-request ..../start is sent
and the opposite in the morning

the problem is its a blind command and doesn't always get actioned by
motion, or gets lost 

from the logfile there is

> [0:cn0] [DBG] [STR] [Oct 23 17:19:42] webu_parseurl: Sent url:
> /101/detection/pause
> [0:cn0] [DBG] [STR] [Oct 23 17:19:42] webu_parseurl: Decoded url:
> /101/detection/pause
> [0:cn0] [DBG] [STR] [Oct 23 17:19:42] webu_parseurl: camid: >101<
> cmd1: >detection< cmd2: >pause< parm1:>< val1:>< parm2:>< val2:><
> [0:wu0] [INF] [ALL] [Oct 23 17:19:42] webu_answer_ctrl: Connection
> from: 127.0.0.1
> 

I've tried running tail -f motion.log | grep Decoded url >  a file 
but haven't succeeded in setting a flag that can be read by another
application/program like homeassistant

this sorta works
tail -f /var/log/motion/motion.log | grep Decoded
[0:cn0] [DBG] [STR] [Oct 23 17:28:40] webu_parseurl: Decoded url:
/101/detection/pause
[0:cn0] [DBG] [STR] [Oct 23 17:28:41] webu_parseurl: Decoded url:
/101/detection/pause

But I haven't succeeded in writing the output of grep to a file  

On Mon, 2023-10-23 at 09:54 -0600, MrDave wrote:
> 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 ???
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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