I have motion installed on my pi, and wondered if it was possible to write a python script to change the detection sensitivity to different values for day and night?
The value i'm interested in is called threshold in the motion.conf file.
Would I:
A) edit the motion.conf file, save it and restart motion
B) send the Motion mmaltest a command somehow, maybe passing parameters and getting past the authentication automatically
c) control motion start via cron which iv'e seen here
0 9 * * * root /usr/bin/lwp-request http://localhost:8080/0/detection/start > /dev/null
so would this work for threshold threshold in the cron?
0 9 * * * root /usr/bin/lwp-request http://localhost::8080/0/config/set?threshold 1000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------edit below
I try this
http://localhost:8091/0/config/set?threshold=4000
from the command line and i get:
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1, ::1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:8091... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Authorization Required
Authorization failed.
How can i include the username and password in the query string? Iv'e tried:
/usr/bin/wget http:/usr/bin/wget http://localhost::8091/0/config/set?threshold=4000&username=myun&password=mypw
but that didn't work.