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Frequency of motion triggered still images. #1965

Open basta opened 3 years ago

basta commented 3 years ago

Hi. If I understand it correctly, when saving motion triggered still images, it takes still image every second of motion. Is there (or can there be) any way of setting this frequency? I would like (for example) a picture of the motion every 10 seconds. The pictures are (and must be) in 4k so I do this because of space requirements. If there is a way to code this please point me in a direction and I could do it and submit it. Thanks

starbasessd commented 3 years ago

If I am not mistaken, you may need to look in motion, as motionEye is a front end making the settings available in a more user-friendly way. That said: In motion configuration: On Event, On Picture, On Motion commands, you might be able to put in a script with a 'sleep 10' pause, or something similar. You can add that script in the Extra Motion Options per Video Device.

starbasessd commented 3 years ago

A list of configuration options is available at https://motion-project.github.io/motion_config.html Scroll down to Configuration Options-Listed Alphabetically Then click the link for the option in the last column to the currently available setting description

zagrim commented 3 years ago

Yeah, I don't think that kind of thing is possible without some script magic, since Motion currently offers only three modes for motion triggered still images: first frame, "best" frame (largest amount of motion) and the "usual selection" which I guess means either every frame passed through motion detection or some hardcoded subset of all of the frames. https://motion-project.github.io/motion_config.html#picture_output

basta commented 3 years ago

My final solution was running a python script on the file, which would remove it, if the last picture saved was less than 10s ago. Using a hook in the configuration.