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I would like to start the motion detection after a particular time of the day, say from 5pm until 7 am in the morning the next day. Is there a simple way to do this? I have searched in the FAQ and answered question sections and have not found anything related to capture times. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

thanks

ALV
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|  Motion version: | 3.2.11  |
|  ffmpeg version: | 0.5.1 |
|  Libraries: | ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql  |
|  Server OS: | Ubuntu 10.04  |
-- Main.AlbertoLopez - 25 Jan 2012

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How do I make time based motion settings?<br /><br />You use a combination of the Motion remote control and the Linux cron daemon which all Linux <br />systems have. Let us take the example that we want to enable motion detection at 9:00 in the <br />morning and turn it off at 18:00. Motion 3.1 must be built with xmlrpc. If you use 3.2 Motion <br />is remote controlled using a browser.<br /><br />In the file /etc/crontab we add these lines.<br /><br />motion 3.1:<br /><br />0 9 * * * root /usr/local/bin/motion-control detection resume <br />0 18 * * * root /usr/local/bin/motion-control detection pause <br /><br />motion 3.2<br /><br />From motion 3.2 there is no longer a motion-control program. Instead you use a program that <br />can fetch a webpage. We simply just throw away the html page that Motion returns. Programs <br />commonly available on Linux machines are wget and lwp-request.<br /><br />0 9 * * * root /usr/bin/lwp-request http://localhost:8080/0/detection/start &gt; /dev/null <br />0 18 * * * root /usr/bin/lwp-request http://localhost:8080/0/detection/pause &gt; /dev/null <br /><br />Most Motion config options can be changed while Motion is running except options related to <br />the size of the captured images. So only your fantasy sets the limit to what you can change <br />combining cron and the remote control interface for Motion.

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