• Name: Will Cooke
• Email: will.cooke@cantbarsedPLEASENOSPAM.com
• Country: United Kingdom

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I'm also starting work on a set of Python CGI scripts to work as a user-friendly wrapper to the RPC functions and an overview of what motion has been captured. Here's some notes from the start of the script....

#!c:/python22/python.exe
# This one for linux -> !/usr/bin/python
#
######################################################################
#  v.   0   -   12-10-04    -   W Cooke -   The begining
#
# Please feel free to alter the script however you want, but please
# keep the Wiki up to date with any fixes or new features
# http://www.whatever.com
#
# Also, please try and comment everything you do so that other people
# can benefit.  You could say this was REMware. You can always take
# the comments out when you run it on your system.
######################################################################


###
# The Plan:  The idea is that motion activity gets stored somewhere, probably a mysql
# database, then when this script is run it generates a list of calendars with the current
# month somewhere in the middle.  The days that have motion will be a clickable link which will
# then load in to the middle of the page either a week view or a day by day view with a little
# preview image from the middle of the movie, which is then clickable to load the movie.
# We'll store the info in MySQL:
#                               Unique ID
#                               Time
#                               Date
#                               Anything else we can get out of motion
# Come to think of it, motion already uses MySQL, so we'll have a look at that as well.
# Admin functions to include an automatic cull of files over a certain date
#
# What I need is a function to generate the calendar, I feed in the month and year and get
# back a HTML calendar with a clicky date if there are any detections for that date. Perhaps
# the colour of the link will change colour depending on how many detections there are on that
# date.  Hmm, thinking about that it might take ages and ages to draw those, so perhaps the
# pages should be built to a shedule.  Actually, once a month-view has been drawn once and that
# month has passed, it will never need to be re-drawn again!  Perhaps take the granularity down
# to a week view, then every week store that page.
#
# I suppose I'm going to have to learn how to make functions and stuff now then.
# Off I go to http://www.diveintopython.org  you can download a free book from there.  It's good!
#
# Yadda yadda yadda.


# The calendar module handles all the date stuff. It know's about days of the week 'n stuff
# The cgitb is for trouble shooting scripts that are running as CGI
# The os is for getting values passed to this script from the browser.  It works the same as from
# the command line, $1 etc.

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