[BUG] - Motion Détection don't work

[leovj]

Good morning everyone, congratulations on your work, fantastic! I installed the hack on the cam and the plug in and it seems to work well: the video and the accessories to record audio and video. Motion Detection and Motion Detection with notification do not work for me.

[7/4/2020, 14:59:11] [Dafang] MQTT Server Publish : $SYS/pbpaEzd/new/clients : mosqpub|6434-Ingresso [7/4/2020, 14:59:11] [Dafang] MQTT Server Publish : MyHouse/CameraIngresso/rtsp_h264_server : ON [7/4/2020, 14:59:11] [Dafang] MQTT Server Publish : $SYS/pbpaEzd/disconnect/clients : mosqpub|6434-Ingresso

[machineglow]

Same issue as #53 with fix in comments

[roboterm]

@machineglow even if I change the coding as you suggest motion and motion tracking doesnt work for me either. I set up a new telegram bot but I m not receiving anything instead of everything is correctly configured. The telegram-bot service is running fine, motion is enabled and I have the motion display indicator in the top right corner but do not receive any snapshot videos or images. The MQTT functionality is also working fine, since I m able to rotate the camera dom via the accessories in the Home app.

[machineglow]

hmm... maybe it's something else. Are you actually running the latest dafang-hack code that has the change to the motion sensor mqtt topic? Are you sure you restarted the services to load the modified homebridge-dafang code? Do you know how to confirm whether the motion sensor messages are being posted to the mqtt topic (I don't but it's worth confirming).

[roboterm]

The firmware seems to be the latest (firmware date: 2020-04-30T18:44:10Z, firmware branch: master). I can monitor the mqtt communication since I m running my own broker.
At which topic are the sensor messages posted?
There is only one topic definition in my camera section of the dafang array in my config.json:
"mqttTopic": "myhome/dafang/#",

[roboterm]

If I monitor the MQTT communication I don't see any messages about motion detection. I can see a lot of messages but they're only about the value sets of the Dafang camera configuration.

[machineglow]

Did you setup mqtt on the dafang camera itself? There’s a mqtt.conf file you have to configure and point to your mqtt service first... i feel like you’re only seeing the messages from the homebridge-dafang plugin and nothing from the camera itself.

[roboterm]

I already customized the content of this file to my needing. If I change the topic in this file and I monitor this topic with a mqtt tool I the the exact same messages I already saw before. I can also rotate left right up down via the accessories in the Home app. So mqtt communication is working fine.

[machineglow]

Then... did you enable motion detection on the dafang camera via the web GUI? Do you get coloured dot in the corner when there is motion on screen?

[roboterm]

Yes and yes... That’s why I’m almost at a loss. Everything is turned on, the motion indicator is working but no snapshots or videos are sent to the telegram-bot. The telegram bit service is also running of course. It’s not my first telegram bot so I think it’s correct configured too.

[roboterm]

@machineglow Auto motion tracking is working now. I erased and formatted the sd card, copied the content again and now it’s working. Fun fact: RTSP is very unstable now. So I guess the sd card is corrupt and I already ordered a new one.

[machineglow]

Never knew how flakey and cards were until I started playing around with my RPi and cameras. Had to chuck one recently too.