Using MotionEyeOS and Importing Python Modules, and follow up question.

[DdraigX]

Howdy,

I'm currently running motionEyeOS 20190911. I am trying to set up a GPIO pin to turn off and on the ir cut filter on my NOIR camera based off the sunrise/sunset period. I have managed to create a quick python script to turn off and on the gpio/ir cut filter. However I'm trying to import suntime module https://pypi.org/project/suntime/) Is there a way I can do this with the python on the system currently? Pip doesn't seem to work.

Follow up question here: I installed this before realizing that it used Buildroot so I'm not familiar with it. In order to get this to work I'm willing to install regular raspian and then motioneye, but how would I make the file system read-only etc as I like that feature of motioneyeos. How would I go about doing that instead?

Thanks in advance for a great tool.

[HOD42]

For the filesystem changes:

mount -o remount, ro / mount -o remount, ro /boot

To reverse, do:

mount -o remount, rw / mount -o remount, rw /boot

[HOD42]

Out of interest which camera is that? I didn't know you could enable/disable the IR filter!

[starbasessd]

You can also turn on Debugging Mode to enable Read/Write, and turn Debug Mode back off to turn off Read/Write mode.

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For the filesystem changes:

mount -o remount, ro / mount -o remount, ro /boot

To reverse, do:

mount -o remount, rw / mount -o remount, rw /boot

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[DdraigX]

Out of interest which camera is that? I didn't know you could enable/disable the IR filter!

Sorry for the late reply, wasn't getting email alerts on this. I was using the NOIR camera, and it has a GPIO pin that you can enable or disable the IR.

[DdraigX]

For the filesystem changes:

mount -o remount, ro / mount -o remount, ro /boot

To reverse, do:

mount -o remount, rw / mount -o remount, rw /boot

I was able to get read/write stuff setup, but because it's a striped down version I can't fully install pip on the device. I ended up loading it onto a raspian image to control.

[starbasessd]

It's easier (although takes 2 reboots) Debug ON = both file systems R/W Debug OFF = both file systems R/O

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 8:12 PM DdraigX notifications@github.com wrote:

For the filesystem changes:

mount -o remount, ro / mount -o remount, ro /boot

To reverse, do:

mount -o remount, rw / mount -o remount, rw /boot

I was able to get read/write stuff setup, but because it's a striped down version I can't fully install pip on the device. I ended up loading it onto a raspian image to control.

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[HOD42]

Sorry for the late reply, wasn't getting email alerts on this. I was using the NOIR camera, and it has a GPIO pin that you can enable or disable the IR.

Ah! So it's just got attached IR LEDs. I thought you meant you could disable/enable the IR filter on the camera (which would be interesting).

[DdraigX]

Sorry for the late reply, wasn't getting email alerts on this. I was using the NOIR camera, and it has a GPIO pin that you can enable or disable the IR.

Ah! So it's just got attached IR LEDs. I thought you meant you could disable/enable the IR filter on the camera (which would be interesting).

You can, it's called an IR Cut filter. Have to solder a pin on it and then send a gpio high or low command. I was hoping initially that I could coordinate it to turn on or off depending on sunrise or sunset. However, that was an older model that I shorted out and broke and most of them I believe have an photo-resistor to trigger the filter on or off if there is enough light. What I believe I discovered is that python on the motioneyeos image is pretty stripped down so I wasn't able to install some python modules that I wanted to use. I got the IR Cut filter working though, but couldn't coordinate sunrise/sunset.

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/RPi_IR-CUT_Camera

[HOD42]

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/RPi_IR-CUT_Camera

COOL! I'm going to have to order one of those! I didn't even know that was "a thing". Thanks for sharing.