pageauc
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9 years ago John
I found this bug as well and have fixed it. The checkIfDay logic has also been greatly simplified and only uses day pixel average instead of the convoluted logic that was used previously. I will post the revised code on github today, once it has gone through a full day test cycle. Sorry for the bug. This has been a personal project of mine for my own use and I like to share the code to help others with similar needs. This has certain responsibilities that come with it, that you discover over time like documentation and testing and listening to users. Thanks for the email.
I am just a retired guy who likes to work on techie stuff and not a developer.
BTW. The program does require some tuning to get working well like motion sensitivity/threshold. I am thinking of building in logic so it can auto tune the settings but this is only a project I work on when I get time.
Will let you know when 1.2 version is posted shortly today.
Regards Claude ...
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 5:41 AM, John Cocula notifications@github.com wrote:
Thanks for putting this together. I love it, and have it running as a service. The only problem is that it thinks there is motion when there is no perceptible change from frame to frame, and it's filling up Google Drive. On a B+.
Could you use MPEG motion vectors http://www.raspberrypi.org/vectors-from-coarse-motion-estimation/ instead of checking if pixels are changing?
My settings are thus:
User Configuration variable settings for pitimolo# Purpose - Motion Detection Security Cam# Created - 13-Dec-2014# Done by - Claude Pageau
configTitle = "Typical Local Security Cam Motion Detection Camera with 1080 images" configName = "demo-motion-1080-num.py"
These settings should both be False if this script is run as a background /etc/init.d daemon
logDataToFile = False # logs diagnostic data to a file for review default=False verbose = False
print a test image
imageTestPrint = False # default=False Set to True to print one image and exit (useful for aligning camera)
Image Settings
imageNamePrefix = 'front-' # Prefix for all image file names. Eg front- imageWidth = 1920 # Full Size Image Width in px default=1980 imageHeight = 1080 # Full Size Image Height in px default=1080 imageVFlip = False # Flip image Vertically default=False imageHFlip = False # Flip image Horizontally default=False imagePreview = False # Preview image on connected RPI Monitor default=False noNightShots = False # Don't Take images at Night default=False noDayShots = False # Don't Take images during day time default=False
Low Light Night Settings
nightMaxShut = 5.5 # default=5 sec Highest cam shut exposure time. IMPORTANT 6 sec works sometimes but occasionally locks RPI and HARD reboot required to clear nightMinShut = .10 # default=.10 sec Lowest camera shut exposure time for transition from day to night (or visa versa) nightMaxISO = 800 # default=800 Max cam ISO night setting nightMinISO = 100 # lowest ISO camera setting for transition from day to night (or visa versa) nightSleepSec = 10 # default=10 Sec - Time period to allow camera to calculate low light AWB nightDayTimer = 2 * 60 # Check stream changes to determine if entering twilight zones sunsetThreshold = 90 # If in Day and pixAverage below this then time to ram to switch to low light mode and ramp settings sunriseThreshold = 220 # If in Night and pixAverage below this then time to ramp low light settings
Settings for Displaying Date/Time Stamp Directly on Images
showDateOnImage = True # Set to False for No display of date/time on image default= True showTextBottom = True # Location of image Text True=Bottom False=Top showTextWhite = False # Colour of image Text True=White False=Black showTextWhiteNight= True # Change night text to white. Might help if night needs white instead of black during day or visa versa
Motion Settings
motionOn = True # True = motion capture is turned on. False= No motion detection motionPrefix = "mo-" # Prefix Motion Detection images motionDir = "motion" # Storage Folder for Motion Detect Images threshold = 10 # How much a pixel has to change to be counted default=10 (1-200) sensitivity = 900 # Number of changed pixels to trigger motion default=300 motionVideoOn = False # If set to True then video clip is taken rather than image motionVideoTimer = 30 # Number of seconds of video clip to take if Motion Detected motionForce = 60 * 60 # One Hour Force image if no Motion Detected. default=60*60 motionNumOn = True # True=On (filenames Sequenced by Number) otherwise date/time used for filename motionNumStart = 1000 # Start motion number sequence motionNumMax = 500 # Max number of motion images desired. 0=Continuous default=0 motionNumRecycle = True # After numberMax reached restart at numberStart instead of exiting default=True motionMaxDots = 50 # Number of motion dots before starting new line createLockFile = True # default=False if True then sync.sh will call grive to sync files to your web google drive if .sync file exists
Lock File is used to indicate motion images are added so sync.sh can sync in background via sudo crontab -e
TimeLapse Settings
timelapseOn = False # Turns timelapse True=On False=Off timelapseTimer = 5 * 60 # Seconds between timelapse images timelapseDir = "timelapse" # Storage Folder for Time Lapse Images timelapsePrefix = "tl-" # Prefix timelapse images with this prefix timelapseExit = 0 * 60 # Will Quit program after specified seconds 0=Continuous Default=0 timelapseNumOn = True # True=On (filenames Sequenced by Number) otherwise date/time used for filename timelapseNumStart = 1000 # Start of timelapse number sequence timelapseNumMax = 1000 # Max number of timelapse images desired. 0=Continuous default=0 timelapseNumRecycle = True # After numberMax reached restart at numberStart instead of exiting default=True
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watou
Thanks for putting this together. I love it, and have it running as a service. The only problem is that it thinks there is motion when there is no perceptible change from frame to frame, and it's filling up Google Drive. On a B+.
Could you use MPEG motion vectors instead of checking if pixels are changing?
My settings are thus: