pi-motion-detection

1.1.3 • Public • Published

pi-motion-detection

A software based detection module for the Raspberry Pi camera using the Pi-Camera module.

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Feel free to head over to the GitHub page for pi-motion-detection and submit comments, issues, pulls, and whatever else you'd like. I plan on adding features as I need them for my own projects so if something isn't happening fast enough for you why not fix it? (:

Installation

// NPM 5
npm install pi-motion-detection
 
// Older NPM versions
npm install pi-motion-detection --save

Basic usage

const path = require('path');
const MotionDetectionModule = require('pi-motion-detection');
const motionDetector = new MotionDetectionModule({
  captureDirectory: path.resolve(__dirname, 'captures'),
});
 
motionDetector.on('motion', () => {
  console.log('motion!');
});
 
motionDetector.on('error', (error) => {
  console.log(error);
});
 
motionDetector.watch();

Constructor Options

const motionDetector = new MotionDetectionModule({
  // Required
  captureDirectory: foo, // Directory to store tmp photos and video captures. Those will be written into
                         // captureDirectory/images and captureDirectory/videos respectively
 
  // Optional
  continueAfterMotion: false,  // Defaults to false
                               // Flag to control if motion detection will continue after detection
  
  captureVideoOnMotion: false, // Defaults to false
                               // Flag to control video capture on motion detection
});

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npm i pi-motion-detection

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Version

1.1.3

License

MIT

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