Re: [Motion-user] Masking issues - RPi 4

[Barry M. <bar...@gm...>]

Hi Roger!

> I never found smart mask to work reasonably.  Eventually with some
> wind it seems to mask out almost everything.

That would be bad!

> And the area_detect I think only works for events.

I couldn't quite tell:  "Detect motion in predefined areas (1 - 9) and 
when Motion is detected in the area, execute the script." Scanning 
though the section  I wasn't sure what script was being referred to

> You need to make a mask file.  Take an image from the camera, read it
> into gimp, then paint everything black you want ignored, and white you
> don't want to ignore and export it as a binary pgm.
>
> file should look like this:
>
> file gs2_mask.pgm
> gs2_mask.pgm: Netpbm image data, size = 3840 x 2160, rawbits, greymap
>
> And have the same size as your camera image.
>
> Then add to the config file this line:
> mask_file /etc/motion/gs2_mask.pgm
>
> I have to adjust mine and/or prune trees getting into the edges of the
> images every so often.

<chuckle>  That's why smart_mask sounded so good!  ...I'll try creating 
a mask and get back with the results.  Thank you!