[TriLUG] bash script, motion, scp

Scott Lambdin lopaki at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 12:53:34 EST 2008


Good luck.  Are you going to hide the camera or make it obvious?

Someone had a real nice camera for sale on here a while back.


On 1/11/08, James Tuttle <jjtuttle at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> Scott,
>
> You were spot on.  I didn't catch that so I really appreciate your help.
> There have been some burglaries in my neighborhood and someone has been
> prowling on my screen porch.  I'd love to have a picture of them.  Now
> if I only had a better camera than this Logitech Messenger.
>
> Thanks again,
> Jim
>
>
> Scott Lambdin wrote:
> > Hmm - it looks like some version put the filename at the end without
> %f  -
> > see what $2 is in your bash script.
> >
> > On 1/11/08, James Tuttle <jjtuttle at trilug.org> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm working on my motion configuration.  Motion allows an
> >> on_picture_save option.  Many people use wput to ftp the picture to a
> >> remote server, but I couldn't get that to work and I don't care for
> >> plain text authentication.
> >>
> >> I'd like to use scp.  In my motion.conf file I have this line:
> >> on_picture_save /home/jjtuttle/.motion/onsave.sh %f
> >> %f should expand to the to filename of the saved picture.
> >>
> >> My onsave.sh file reads thusly:
> >> #/bin/bash
> >>
> >> scp $1 jim at bt:~/www/private/motion/.
> >> echo "SCP'd $1 to bt"
> >>
> >> However, the %f doesn't seem to be expanding.  I get this error:
> >> [1] File of type 2 saved to:
> >> /home/jim/Documents/personal/motion/01-20080111110000-snapshot.jpg
> >> %f: No such file or directory
> >> SCP'd %f to Braggtown
> >>
> >> So, my question is, how can I use SCP to save this picture to a remote
> >> location.  I suppose I could trigger a script that finds the most
> recent
> >> image in the directory and SCP's that, but during a motion capture
> >> event pictures are saved pretty quickly and I wonder if I'd miss some.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jim
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