Gotcha. I wasn’t quite following what you meant about the camera id assignment issue but now I understand. When I hardcode the camera ID it works. For me, it’s writing:
12-08-21.avi.aac
I wonder if there’s an issue with the .avi and .aac file extensions causing the merge to fail?
This has been informative! I am trying to learn all this as I go, for my information, what do the variables %t, %f, '%$'? (Probably a dumb question I know). I have copied the new script by @Daniel_Duarte and put the file in /data/motioneye/ in the actual MotionEye add-on container in HASSIO and I have tried the suggestions above, but no audio. I am sure I should be able to figure it out, just need a little push!
Added:
Device: on_movie_start /data/motioneye/motioneye-audio.sh start %t %f
Storage: /data/motioneye/motioneye-audio.sh stop %t %f
Storage is going to my NAS successfully just no audio.
Any additional insight would be appreciated!
Hey
yup so this is what i have :
on_movie_start /data/motioneye/motioneye-audio.sh start %t %f ‘%$’
try entering some of the variables manually - so for instead %t enter the actual camera id assigned in motion eye - it seems the variable setting seems to be a bit buggy in that i believe it doesnt take from the same value you see in motion eye front end…
if you arent seeing the AAC file the start script portion is where you want to look - check the motioneye log file and it should be generating some pid file in /tmp/
Thanks for the response! The log shows ignoring start event…is that weird? I don’t see any errors so am stumped. Tried replacing %t with the CamID which is 1…and just curious, what do the other 2 variables stand for (%f ‘%$’)?
2020-12-22T02:14:54.076745000Z DEBUG: ignoring start event for camera with id 1 and motion detection disabled,
2020-12-22T02:14:54.077214000Z DEBUG: 200 POST /_relay_event/?_username=admin&event=start&motion_camera_id=1&_signature=1287370d05023c55b8f0c0edf2fce3cf95209b8b (127.0.0.1) 1.57ms,
2020-12-22T02:14:54.103648000Z DEBUG: received relayed event stop for motion camera id 1 (camera id 1)
I’ll keep doing some digging and working with trial and error!
EDIT: Found the variables in the MotionEye site
Success! I’m an idiot and when I copied your new script from above I didn’t commit/save it right so it still had the original. Thanks for the insight!
is the .aac merging with the video file successfully? wasn’t sure if that got resolved or not.
So yes and no. I have noticed it will do it for a couple and then stop. I figured it was because I was doing some config work and needing to restart HA. It seems when I restart HA it stops, but then if I actually use Restart on the MotionEye add-on it will start merging again, but I haven’t paid super close attention. Now that I am done doing my config changes I will let it sit and see what happens.
keep me posted. that’s the last step of my configuration that I haven’t been able to get to work.
To hopefully outline things for people who find this down the road. These are the steps I followed to get it working for me. YMMV. I provide no guarantee.
IMPORTANT: You will need to get into the back-end container for the add-ons in Docker this can completely mess up your HA install, MAKE A BACKUP, ideally of your entire VM and of course you do this at your own risk!
My setup:
Instructions:
apk add nano (I prefer using it for text editing, but use what you want I am in no way a professional)cd /data/motioneye/ and press ENTER
nano motioneye-audio.sh and press ENTER; this will create a new file and open the nano editorCTRL + X, then press Y and then press ENTER
chmod +x motioneye-audio.sh and press ENTERnano motioneye-audio.sh to open the file again and ensure the script was saved, if it’s all there, then press CTRL + X to close the nano editorexit and press ENTER; you can then close that window and enable “Protection Mode” for the Portainer add-on; and/or stop it if you wanton_movie_start /data/motioneye/motioneye-audio.sh start 1 %f%t %f '%$', (place holders for: Camera ID, File Path and Camera Name, respectively) but apparently there is a bug that causes issues with the camera name vs. ID, so instead of %t I put the actual ID of the camera at the suggestion of @Daniel_Duarte. Camera ID can be found under Video Device. Obviously, if you add more cameras substitute that camera’s ID./data/motioneye/motioneye-audio.sh stop 1 %fWhen everything starts up after a few seconds, if you look at your storage location, you should see 3 files: The MP4, the ACC and a Thumb file
As mentioned above, if you don’t see the ACC file but you see the others created, then you need to check your steps or maybe try some other options. I found it easier to set my Movie length to 30 seconds while testing things out and once I was happy and now have it set to 900 second movies.
Also as mentioned above, the merging of the ACC file can be a little hit or miss, but I haven’t had time to really test this to find any consistencies with what causes it to and not to merge.
Hopefully this helps someone in the future as I know there is really good info on this page as well as a few other places but it’s all fragmented and I like to consolidate things together! Let me know of changes/updates!
So I have been letting it run at 15 minute movies. I’d say it merges successfully about 80% of the time. Just seems to be random. I’m going to let it run tonight and check tomorrow, then maybe try some different settings.
Unfortunately the reliability of this isn’t there. I see the audio file created in the folder, but for some reason it doesn’t merge.
I just wanted to let everyone know… I am no longer using this script with MotionEye.
I revisited a software that came out a while back (AgentDVR) and it has made some great improvements - and it has now become my daily driver. It supports audio, MQTT, Deekstack.AI for object detection, and overall I am very happy with it.
So, I switched over and no longer use MotionEye.
I am happy others have been able to get this script working, and will leave the repo up - but I likely won’t be making any future code changes. Feel free to fork it and post it here if you want to maintain it.
Good Luck and Enjoy!
Cheers!
DeadEnd
I want to thank you for your work on this and the help you’ve given me to help me set it up!
Are you using the free version of AgentDVR that supports those features?
Yes, I am (although maybe not for much longer) using the free version of Agent DVR.
I see nothing I need the paid version for… ONVIF from cameras to Agent, local DeepStack container for object detection, and for Alerts I set up a connection to the MQTT broker and use Node-Red to automate on Alert MQTT messages. Worked very well.
The DEV has been very responsive on the ISkyConnect Reddit thread… he made multiple bug fixes and improvements I requested.
Cheers!
DeadEnd
Hi.
I pasted the script and it produces an .mp4 file with audio. However, the sound is recorded offset to the video or a few seconds are missing at the beginning so that the sound is not synchronous. Does anyone have the same problem and can help?
Guys, tell me where should I put the plugin if I have a homeassistant generic x86-64?
I simply do not have the /etc/motioneye/ and /data/etc/ folders.
Ребята, подскажите куда мне положить плагин если у меня homeassistant generik x86-64?
Папок /etc/motioneye/ и /data/etc/ у меня просто нет.
Thanks for your script. I added the configuration and the shell file, but the wav file is not generated at all. I’m running motioneye as native service under Linux Mint installation.
Any idea?
I fixed it changing those 2 lines:
camera_id="$(python3 -c 'import motioneye.motionctl; print(motioneye.motionctl.motion_camera_id_to_camera_id('${motion_thread_id}'))')"
ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -y -i "${full_stream}" -c:a aac -map 0:a:0 "${file_path}.aac" 2>&1 1>/dev/null &
Someone can help with homeassistant and motioneye addons? I tried but without any success.