Frank Brown

Hello Using motion 4.2.2 on ubuntu 20.04. Using the conversion modifier %f to attach the current file to an e-mail. I just made a change to create both a picture file and movie file for a given camera event. From an "on_area_detect" I want to send the photo via email. There seems to be 2 problems with this. First it seems Motion uses %f for for both the picture file and movie file, so which name is going to be returned. Both files are created with the same name, but with different extensions, (mp4,...

Hello. I'm using motion 4.2.2 on Kubuntu 19.04. I am currently monitoring 4 cameras. For the camera in front of my house, I record all events occuring within view, which includes cars and people going down the street resulting in a large number of video files. I want to continue recording all the activity. I use the "area_detect" to narrow down an area of interest immeadiately around the house and "on_area_detect" key to run a script which plays and alert sound in the house, and also sends an email...