Change motion detector action

[airart]

Sorry for my bad english
Hello , is it possible to modify the module and make it display only a specified module when the cam detect a motion ?
It’s useful now but it turn off the TV and I’m forced to turn on manually After 5 minutes of inactivity
Ma goal is use your module to switch to a full screen clock to a normal MM
Tanks u so much

[rejas]

hi @airart sorry for the late answer.
yes it would be possible to modifiy the module so that it does something similar to what you want.
The module already sends a "MOTION_DETECTED" notification to the system so any other module could listen to that and react accordingly. I dont know if there are modules out there that switch displayed modules depneding on notifications but I would be surprised if not.
My module "only" needs to be changed so that one can disable turning off/on the monitor autoamtically. Maybe I find some time for that later this week....

[rejas]

Hey @airart I just added an option to the module so that the monitor is never turned off (by setting the timeout in the config to -1) Could you check if that would help you?

[BrianHepler]

Sorry, I just saw this. I'll check this out and get back to you soon.

[BrianHepler]

My testing is failing. After setting the timeout to -1, the module does not detection motion and never sends the notification. It also never blanks the screen, so there's that bit of good news.

The last I see in the electron console is "DiffCamEngine init successful." so that's encouraging. The stdout shows "MMM-MotionDetector: monitor display_power=1". But it doesn't respond to motion.

[rejas]

Thx for testing. After looking again at my code I found some bugs in my line of thought :-)

Could you checkout the develop branch and see if now MOTION_DETECTED notifications can be received?

[BrianHepler]

I switched to the devlop branch and gave it ago. Sorry, but no change in behavior.

[rejas]

Question on your use case: How do you consume the notifications (aka how do you debug if my module sends the MOTION_DETECTED notifications)?

[BrianHepler]

I normally put the Pi into debug mode with npm start devand then monitor the logs via pm2 log 0 to catch both electron and node_helper.js console output. If I am troubleshooting, I will add a debug switch and then write out to electron.

I have a monitor hooked up the Pi, so I can see if/when the monitor turns off.

[BrianHepler]

I'm going to take a crack at it and I'll send you a PR with my take. We'll get this knocked out.

[BrianHepler]

PR submitted.

[airart]

Right soon as possible Tnx Filippo Gallerani

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Il giorno 14 lug 2020, alle ore 21:57, Veeck ***@***.***> ha scritto:  Thx for testing. After looking again at my code I found some bugs in my line of thought :-) Could you checkout the develop branch and see if now MOTION_DETECTED notifications can be received? — You are receiving this because you were assigned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.