[ale] "motion" and snapshots?

[Robert L. Harris]

I'll compare yours against mine I wrote while waiting on my freaking
cablemmodem to come up.  Helped when I found the "onsave" directive in
the config file.

Thanks for pointing out this proggy, it's great.


Thus spake Geoffrey (esoteric at 3times25.net):

> Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >
> >I know Geoff and a couple others are playing with "motion".  I just
> >got a new webcam and it's actually supported.  Getting motion up and
> >online was quick and I love the built in web server.  So far the only
> >problem I've got is the snapshots are saved in 
> ><prefix>/2004/04/08/21/22/snapshot.jpg  format instead of somethign
> >like /prefix/200404082122.jpg which makes poking through a history
> >much simpler.  Anyone found a way to manage something like this?
> 
> I've got a perl script around here that does a conversion like this, let 
> me look around...... Ah, here it is!  It's ugly, it's old, it uses 
> static directory values, feel free to hack away at it.  Hope it helps!
> 
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
> Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft

> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> # use diagnostics;
> use strict;
> 
> my ($nfn, $fn, @parts, %newdir, %newfn, $i, $key, $value, %file, @df, @data);
> 
> chdir "/home/esoteric/watch" || die "died attempting to chdir";
> 
> my @files = `find . -name '*.jpg' -print`;
> 
> printf "files to move: %s\n", $#files + 1;
> 
> my @pre_df=`df /home/esoteric/store`;
> 
> foreach $fn (@files) {
> 
> 	# parse through each file name, and build the new filename
> 	# and directory name the file will reside
> 
> 	chomp $fn;
> 	@parts = split ("/", $fn);
> 	$file{$fn} = $parts[0];
> 	$newdir{$fn} = "/home/esoteric/store/archive/" .
> 		substr($parts[1], 2, 2) .  $parts[2] . $parts[3];
> 	$newfn{$fn} = $parts[4] . $parts[5] . substr($parts[6], 0, 2);
> 
> 	for ($i = 1; $i < $#parts; $i++) {
> 		$file{$fn} = $file{$fn} . "/" . $parts[$i];
> 	}
> }
> 
> my $count=0;
> 
> while (($key, $value) = each %file) { $count++; }
> 
> printf "files to move: %s\n", $count;
> 
> $count=0;
> while (($key, $value) = each %file) {
> 
> 	# create the directory if it does not exist
> 
> 	if ( ! -d $newdir{$key} ) { mkdir $newdir{$key}; }
> 
> 	# insure unique file names
> 
> 	$nfn=$newdir{$key} . "/" . $newfn{$key} . ".jpg";
> 
> 	while ( -e $nfn ) {
> 		printf "Found a duplicate <%s> and <%s>\n", $nfn, $newfn{$key};
> 		print "Changing file name";
> 		$nfn=$newdir{$key} . "/" . $newfn{$key} . "a.jpg";
> 	}
> 
> 	# printf "moving %s to %s\n", $key, $nfn;
> 	`/bin/mv $key $nfn`;
> 	if ( ! -e $nfn ) { die "file doesn't exist, mv failed\n" }
> 	# if ( $? != 0 ) {die "mv $key $nfn failed ($?)";}
> 	$count++;
> }
> print "files moved: $count\n";
> 
> # $list=`find * -type d -depth -print`;
> # print "list of directories located: $list\n";
> `find * -type d -depth -print |xargs rmdir`;
> 
> @df=`df /home/esoteric/store`;
> @data = split " ", $df[1];
> $data[4] =~ s/%//;
> print $pre_df[1];
> print $df[1];
>  if ( $data[4] > 98 ) {
>  	`/home/esoteric/shl/dosound /home/esoteric/sounds/intercom.au`;
> }
> exit;

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