Video Detection And Sending To Your Phone By Pir

Question

is this possible with an ez robot.i like it very much.

DJ Sures · Answer

A PIR you can use - but it's an outdated and boring technology. I'd recommend using the camera instead. The camera has motion detection. So simply add a script for the tracking script to send a notification when it sees movement with the camera.

Nomad 6R · Answer

dj ub selling old stuff then.ok something to learn.thanks

DJ Sures · Answer

Yeah - pir is what's used in old alarm systems that have been around since the 80's. Ub Tech doesn't use much new technology - their robots are pretty terrible and filled with cheap components. But, they have quite the marketing budget!

Nomad 6R · Answer

i bouth one robot from them the alpha2,worked a few months then they disconneted my robot from there server.there forum dissepeared, no contact. many on indiego didn get a refund or a robot.they lie about averything. a big shame,but we have ez robot.

DJ Sures · Answer

I'm sorry to hear that, nomad. It is indeed a good thing we have ezrobot

Dunning-Kruger · Answer

@Nomad... all a PIR sensor is, (you can google it to find out exactly what it does)... is a $5 switch that's all it is. It measures infrared (IR) light radiating from objects... When it reads a change in IR light like from a human or animal that walks by it activates. When plugged into an EZB4 it will cause a digital port to "go high"... You read the digital port and write a script of what you want to do when it activates... It doesn't send emails or pictures or anything else... it's just a switch... As @DJ mentioned use the camera so you can use more advanced features... I use one in my inMoov to detect if people are around... If no people are around I programmed inMoov to go to sleep. When people come in the room the PIR detector is activated and I have inMoov wake up...

Nomad 6R · Answer

hi RR you have a great inmoove.thats sounds like a cool script you have.

Nomad 6R · Answer

is this a good pir sensor ? pir another with movement detectection pir

bhouston · Answer

@ Nomad Like DJ suggested, using the camera to this is very easy. I have the camera on my Inmoov set to detect motion and when it does, it takes a snap shot and then sends that snap shot to me in an email. I haven't tried a video of what it sees but it should be easy enough to do as well. Using the camera to this is more efficent as it takes the PIR out of the setup. If you want use the PIR, that would be easy to do as well. Once the PIR is triggered then the camera takes a video, then sends that video to you in an email. Let me know if you need a hand setting it up.

Nomad 6R · Answer

bhouston thanks for the help.i dont have a pir ,so i wil use the camera. if you have some pics or script for me what to do will be very helpfull.

bhouston · Answer

@ Nomad, Sorry to take so to post this, I've been away. Put you email address and name in where I've indicated.
 :start ControlCommand("Camera", CameraMotionTrackingEnable) #center camera on object if($Cameraistracking = 1) sleep(500) ControlCommand("Camera", CameraSnapshot) ControlCommand("SMTP Client", SendImage, "Camera", "your email address here", "your name here", "Motion detected", "Hey Bob, this is InMoov. I have detected motion in the shop. Here's a picture of what I saw.")# you can change this to say what ever you want Sleep(2000) ControlCommand("Camera", CameraMotionTrackingDisable) endif sleep(10000) goto(start)

Let us know when you get it send a video (I haven't tried that yet)

Nomad 6R · Answer

bhouston this is awesome thank you.

Nomad 6R · Answer

i just notis ,what comes here ?

bhouston · Answer

Use the slider on the bottom of the code box to move it over.

Nomad 6R · Answer

omg i didn see that.

Nomad 6R · Answer

jd takes pics and send it to a folder on my pc ,not to my mail adres. posseble cause my adres is BE ?

bhouston · Answer

I wouldn't think that would matter, an email address is an email address. Check it and make sure it's entered right. Send me an email ( it's in my profile) and I'll try sending you from my robot.

Nomad 6R · Answer

i checked found one letter wrong ,but not working. i put the script here.

bhouston · Answer

I just have mine in the Script Manager. I my 'Init' Script I start the camera and this will run the script when motion is detected.

Nomad 6R · Answer

snapchot and video works.all is same except mail adres,jd dont send.

Nomad 6R · Answer

do i need to change here maybe ?

bhouston · Answer

Send me an email. I’ll check a couple of others things in a bit.

Nomad 6R · Answer

okay

bhouston · Answer

Do you have the SMTP Client control activated and configured? It is in the Misc folder in the Controls. You need this.

Nomad 6R · Answer

Ah that will be the problem’

Nomad 6R · Answer

Is tat the iphone streaming ? In misc

Nomad 6R · Answer

ok smtp is a plugin,i have it downloaded. mine says smtp.telenet.be port 587 but not ssl but tsl ?

Nomad 6R · Answer

i try all i read in the tutorial,not working.

JustinRatliff · Answer

Patrick, I use an email account on Yahoo with mine so my SMTP address is smtp.mail.yahoo.com and I had to find my settings from Yahoo for the port and if use SSL was needed or not. Did smtp.telnet.be as the address come from your internet provider or was it your best guess? If it was your best guess try smtp.mail.telnet.be and if that fails then try again checking Use SSL.

Nomad 6R · Answer

hi justin i look it up its like i wrote it.smtp.telenet.be thanks i try.

bhouston · Answer

@Nomad, Mine is - smtp-mail.outlook.com. Try it like Justin suggested.

Nomad 6R · Answer

i did try that no luck sofar.i get error line 9 cant send it. below i read time out.

Nomad 6R · Answer

here a pic from telenet serversmtp.

JustinRatliff · Answer

smtp.telenet.be is clearly your smtp server name per them. So change the server name back to that and keep it that. Keep the port 587. Try keeping the SSL checked as well. My concern is TLS which is close to SSL but not 100% the same. This might prevent it from authenticating correctly, it might not be possible with your email service. Patrick, I assume you have your email password entered and it is just cleared out for the screen shot to share publically, correct? And I assume you are not loosing internet connection when trying this (just covering all the bases)? If it keeps failing my best guess would be the TLS native cryptographic protocols from telenet.be is not compatible and I would recommend setting up a free email with a service like Yahoo! that has a known functional smtp interface.

Nomad 6R · Answer

justin yes i cover up my password.i do have another mail adres with a .com from gmail.my internet stays good.

Nomad 6R · Answer

joepie its working.needs some audio do,would cool.

Nomad 6R · Answer

wow jd is disconnected but he still sends pic to my mail?

bhouston · Answer

Glad to hear you got it working!

Nomad 6R · Answer

so how does it stop taking only one pic ?

JustinRatliff · Answer

Patrick, put your thinking hat on. How does anything else stop in ARC? If you are running this code:
 :start ControlCommand("Camera", CameraMotionTrackingEnable) #center camera on object if($Cameraistracking = 1) sleep(500) ControlCommand("Camera", CameraSnapshot) ControlCommand("SMTP Client", SendImage, "Camera", "your email address here", "your name here", "Motion detected", "Hey Bob, this is InMoov. I have detected motion in the shop. Here's a picture of what I saw.")# you can change this to say what ever you want Sleep(2000) ControlCommand("Camera", CameraMotionTrackingDisable) endif sleep(10000) goto(start)

Your answer is to stop the script. Come on, with your thinking hat on I know you had to have known that.

Nomad 6R · Answer

remove start and goto?

JustinRatliff · Answer

Patrick, it's a script, just press STOP like very other scrip in ARC, I've seen you do that in your videos I know you know how to press stop to stop it from running like any other script and it will stop sending email pictures to you. Or are you trying to ask how to modify the script in order to change it's behavior so it does something else for you?

Nomad 6R · Answer

ah i placed the script in the camera script,not separt. so i make a script outside camera settings.?

Nomad 6R · Answer

got it use the pause button.

JustinRatliff · Answer

Yes, you should always keeps your scripts separate from your controls unless you have a very good and specific reason to put them in the control settings of your control objects. That was a good example of why you should NOT put a script like that there. I recommend using Script Manager(s) to organize your scripts, then you can manually start and stop them. You can also create voice commands to start and stop your scripts. And if you get fancy you can use personality generators or versions of AI to let your robot choose when to run it's own scripts. I think you learned a lot today Patrick!

Nomad 6R · Answer

justin yes indeed.the finding of the smtp on telenet alone was super, i finaly found something.ofcourse with some needed help here, ok i changed to a separt script,and still works. i will see what the script manager does. thank you very much.

Nomad 6R · Answer

now its working on my phone to,inclu the pic too .awesome its works really fast,the sec jd notest movement its comming allreddy , in my phone.

3dGuy · Answer

This has been an interesting post. I learned something. Glad you got it working Nomad

Nomad 6R · Answer

hi holy1 glad you like it also.next point will be video or sound in the mail. thanks

DJ Sures · Answer

Patrick, if you put a loop in the "camera tracking start", it will loop forever until a "camera tracking stop" script is executed. You can stop it by putting this in the "camera tracking stop" script:
 Halt()

Putting something (anything) in the camera tracking stop script will stop any other camera scripts. Each control can run one script at a time, so this example shows how that

Nomad 6R · Answer

hi dj thats a new one for me.thanks for the tip.but wil i be able to stil use video record ?

DJ Sures · Answer

Then just do this... Voila, done! Put this in the Camera Tracking Start script...
 # Start recording because we detected something ControlCommand("Camera", CameraRecordStart)

Put this in the Camera Tracking Stop script...
 # Stop recording because the object went away ControlCommand("Camera", CameraRecordStop)

Nomad 6R · Answer

great dj thanks.

Nomad 6R · Answer

is this correct for video?

:start

ControlCommand("Camera", CameraRecordStart) #center camera on object if($Cameraistracking = 1) sleep(500) ControlCommand("Camera", CameraSnapshot)

ControlCommand("SMTP Client", SendImage, "Camera", "[email protected]", "patrick dierckx", "Motion detected", "Hey patrick, this is jd. I have detected motion in your house. Here's a picture of what I saw.")# you can change this to say what ever you want Sleep(2000) ControlCommand("Camera", CameraRecordStop) endif sleep(10000) goto (start)

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