send alerts during motion

RPi-motion-alert

optimized to use motion, motioneye or motioneyeos with pushover, include images/animated images

Main features:

• support pushover
• create animated gif
• support animated gif with pushover

Installation

install all needed packages to prepare the software environtent of your Raspberry Pi:

sudo pip3 install requests python-ffmpeg

and this tool itself:

cd /opt
sudo git clone https://github.com/Starwhooper/RPi-motionalert /opt/RPi-motionalert

First configurtion

sudo cp /opt/RPi-motionalert/config.example.json /opt/RPi-motionalert/config.json
sudo nano /opt/RPi-motionalert/config.json

insert apikey and userkey for pushover and check the right folder

Add to motionEye

Insert Command to "Actions when motion has startet": python3 /opt/RPi-motionalert/alert.py -v -c 1 -t "%$" -p %Y-%m-%d/%H-%M-%S.jpg

• -v: means verbose
• -c 1: means video device camera id on motionEye (not the camera id in motion itself)
• -t "%$": means the Cameraname
• -p %Y-%m-%d/%H-%M-%S.jpg: means the picture

Insert Command to "Actions when motion has ended": python3 /opt/RPi-motionalert/alert.py -v -a -c 1 -t "%$" -p %Y-%m-%d/*.avi

• -v: means verbose
• -a: means to convert videofile in animated gif
• -c 1: means video device camera id on motionEye (not the camera id in motion itself)
• -t "%$": means the Cameraname
• -p %Y-%m-%d/*.avi: means the videos, beware to set the right extension

Update

If you already use it, feel free to update with

cd /opt/RPi-motionalert
sudo git pull origin main

sources of knowledge:

• Animated example: https://www.animatedimages.org/img-animated-animal-image-0051-80826.htm
• python code: https://support.pushover.net/i44-example-code-and-pushover-libraries#python-image
• pushover parameter: https://pushover.net/api
• motion parameter: https://motion-project.github.io/motion_config.html#conversion_specifiers
• python ffmpeg: https://pypi.org/project/python-ffmpeg/