Noob here,
any chance anyone has the NoIR camera working with Motionpie?
I have an IR illuminator, but for some reason cannot find the settings to change the camera to "night" in motionpie
thanks for any help
hairynoggin wrote:Noob here,
any chance anyone has the NoIR camera working with Motionpie?
I have an IR illuminator, but for some reason cannot find the settings to change the camera to "night" in motionpie
thanks for any help
hairynoggin wrote:I should add that I meant I cannot get the night IR functionality to work....as a camera its fine...at night not...
hairynoggin wrote:The the NoIR camera (no IR filter) when you set it to night mode, and use an IR light you can see through the darkness. Its very cool and well for security perfect. The Motionpie software is the best however I cannot find the "night setting".
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From a software point of view you can't tell the difference between a PiCamera and a NoIRCamera. From a hardware point of view it's electronically identical, the only difference is there's no IR filter (hence NoIR).ccrisan wrote:I'm not sure what you mean by "IR" functionality. If there are special commands to be sent to the camera device then there is no support in motionPie for what you need (and it won't be any time soon).
DougieLawson wrote:From a software point of view you can't tell the difference between a PiCamera and a NoIRCamera. From a hardware point of view it's electronically identical, the only difference is there's no IR filter (hence NoIR).ccrisan wrote:I'm not sure what you mean by "IR" functionality. If there are special commands to be sent to the camera device then there is no support in motionPie for what you need (and it won't be any time soon).
I have this program in /etc/cron.d/sunwait so I always know whether it's locally light or dark.ccrisan wrote:Yes, that's what I thought. I own a few of these PI Noir cameras and they are sensible to IR light indeed. But without a proper source of IR light I don't see how one would make them "see" at night. Moreover, I found no online reference regarding anything like "night setting" or "night mode" for this camera.
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3 3 * * * root /usr/local/bin/sunwait civ up +0:01:00 51.nnnnnnN 1.wwwwwwW ; echo 'light' > /var/run/lightordark
3 14 * * * root /usr/local/bin/sunwait civ down -0:01:00 51.nnnnnnN 1.wwwwwwW ; echo 'dark' > /var/run/lightordark
can you explain your programs a little more Dougie??DougieLawson wrote:I have this program in /etc/cron.d/sunwait so I always know whether it's locally light or dark.ccrisan wrote:Yes, that's what I thought. I own a few of these PI Noir cameras and they are sensible to IR light indeed. But without a proper source of IR light I don't see how one would make them "see" at night. Moreover, I found no online reference regarding anything like "night setting" or "night mode" for this camera.Code: Select all
3 3 * * * root /usr/local/bin/sunwait civ up +0:01:00 51.nnnnnnN 1.wwwwwwW ; echo 'light' > /var/run/lightordark 3 14 * * * root /usr/local/bin/sunwait civ down -0:01:00 51.nnnnnnN 1.wwwwwwW ; echo 'dark' > /var/run/lightordark
thanks, appreciatedlastfreenick wrote:The script I wrote sshs into the motionpi machine executes the v4l2-ctl commands and restarts motion. You have to install sshpass on the server in order to be able to automatically ssh into another machine from a script. Just google sshpass for the commands needed. Works like a charm.
Saffik wrote:Hi ccrisian
I recently bought a USB camera called Coomatec DVRcam C802 (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cooma ... CAkQ_AUoBA) and plugged it a 7-port USB power HUB (https://www.modmypi.com/7-port-raspberry-pi-hub-eu) and the raspberry pi was also powered by the USB hub.
The camera failed to detect and work with MotionPie. I was wondering, if only certain cameras work with MotionPie or will any usb camera as long as powered by USB hub work with it?
spikedrba wrote:Hi all,
thanks for the great work Cris.
I was trying motionPie/Eye out after having spent some time working with Raspimjpeg and while the interface and some features of motion really attract me the videos are really laggy/timelapse-like (even when set to 25 fps).
The same pie records fine videos with raspimjpeg (just swapping sd cards).
Am I doing something wrong? Does anybody have videos recorded with motionPie up on youtube or something I could take a look for comparison?
thanks,
Spike
hoping to not be a bother, could you tell me a little more about the limitations of motion. Are you referring to something specific in the motion's code base? Because the pi with raspimpjeg doesn't have any problem to stream and record high quality videos.ccrisan wrote:Reduce the resolution. These are the limitations of motion on a Raspberry PI.
petay wrote:Been using MotionPie for months now and its rock solid!!
I have a need to have a remote (hopefully battery/solar powered) camera to keep an eye on my car.
its too far from my house to keep a wifi signal, would it be possible to have it running an RTC to keep its clock on track?
Also what are the chances of getting wifi host settings. It would be awesome to have it all sealed up in a box, and be able to connect to its own wifi network to view recorded videos!!
Pete