motionwatchdog and motioncleanup

Introduction

- motionwatchdog: an application which (re)start motion and other application automatically after a crash. Optionally it is possible to use a watchdog device.
- motioncleanup: a program which permits to erase the old pictures captured by motion. The program need the "new file" format (with directories), and motioncleanup use the directory structure to avoid the scanning of the whole pictures to find the oldest. The cleanup starts when less than a specifyed memory is available on the filesystem. It can be started in background to make a regulary cleanup.

Detailed Description

motionwatchdog:

Usage:  motionwatchdog "watchdog" "command" .. "command"
        "watchdog"      Watchdog device (/dev/watchdog)
                        Use the null device is the watchdog
                        is not used (/dev/null)
                        WARNING: Using a watchdog will reboot
                        the computer if this program is killed!!!
        "command"       Commands executed in background
                        The command must be a command which
                        does not return!!!
                        NOTE: motion need to be configure
                        in non-deamon mode.

ex:     motionwatchdog /dev/null 'motion' 'motioncleanup 60 /home/CAMERA'
        Execute 'motion'
                AND restart it if motion terminates
        Execute 'motioncleanup 60 /home/CAMERA'
                AND restart it if motion terminates
        No watchdog devices are used

motioncleanup:

Usage:  motioncleanup "time" "size" "dir" ... "dir"
        "time"  Sleep time between 2 check (0 to deactivate)
        "size"  in MB which should be left on the disk
        "dir"   directory which contains the pictures captures
                by motion (new format only supported)

ex:     'motioncleanup 60 2700 /tmp/CAMERA1 /tmp/CAMERA2 /tmp/CAMERA3'
        removes every 60s the oldest pictures from /tmp/CAMERA1 /tmp/CAMERA2
        /tmp/CAMERA3 if less than 2700 MB are available.

Installation

Download: Download the pachages located (motionwatchdog.tar.gz and motioncleanup.tar.gz) at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=123802

What do you need to install before?
tar is needed. make is needed. qmake is needed. gcc is needed.

How do you install the program? (assume talking to a newbie)

tar xvfz motionwatchdog.tar.gz
tar xvfz motioncleanup.tar.gz
follow the instruction in the INSTALL file.