I have been playing around with Motion on one of my Linux boxes, and got annoyed at the constant stream of emails that I am receiving as I have setup Motion to send an email to myself when it detects motion, so I wrote up a short script to activate or deactivate motion if it can pick up certain devices by pinging them.
It’s not foolproof as my wifi is playing up a bit and some devices do not respond by ping sometimes, but it’s useful for deactivating something when you approach and reactivating it when you leave, or vice versa depending on your use of this script.
Setting this script up as a cronjob will allow it to run every say 5 minutes for automation.
#!/bin/bash
PeopleAround=0
people=( 192.168.2.72 192.168.2.117 )
MotionStarted=`wget -o getlog -O /usr/scripts/status http://localhost:8080/0/detection/status | cat /usr/scripts/status | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' | tail -n 3 | head -n -2`
for ip in "${people[@]}"; do
PersonAround=`ping -c 1 $ip | grep '64 bytes' | wc -l`
if [[ PersonAround -eq 1 ]]; then
PeopleAround=1
break
fi
done
if [[ $PeopleAround -eq 1 ]]; then
if [[ "$MotionStarted" =~ "ACTIVE" ]]; then
wget -O /usr/scripts/status http://127.0.0.1:8080/0/detection/pause
echo "People around, stopping motion" $run | mail -s 'Motion stopped' YOUR@EMAIL.COM
fi
else
if [[ "$MotionStarted" =~ "PAUSE" ]]; then
wget -O /usr/scripts/status http://127.0.0.1:8080/0/detection/start
echo "No One around, Starting motion" $run | mail -s 'Motion started' YOUR@EMAIL.com
fi
fi
