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Script Action Upon Motion - Need Help Quick!

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Hey all,

Looks like my ping sensor is not working so I need an alternative. I was hoping to use a web cam. Can anyone tell me if possible and how I could trigger a script upon the detection of motion?

Is this even possible with ARC? I'm heading to bed soon, but the competition is tomorrow so I hope to have this fixed in the morning. Judging is at 1pm.

You can see some progress here:

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Thanks for your help! -DaMan


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Synthiam
#1  

Press CONFIG on the camera control. Select the SCRIPTS tab. You can now edit the Found and Lost script section to execute. :)

Enjoy!

Canada
#2  

Thanks for the quick reply DJ. Pardon my ignorance, but is there some documentation that describes how these controls work?

I have Tracking Start: controlcommand("Rat", scriptstart)

Number of frames is 2 (started at 8)

I toggle on motion tracking and then move, it tracks me, but the script does not start....

hmmm

Canada
#3  

I also just tried moving all of my scripts to a scriptmanager so I could use the syntax in the help tab.

Set both Tracking Start and Tracking End to: ControlCommand( "Script Manager", ScriptStart, "Rat" )

no luck:(

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Synthiam
#4  

You will have to enable motion detection under the Tracking tab

Canada
#5  

Ah.... Using the examples I was able to determine that my syntax was fine. Restarted ARC and VOILA! Works like a charm now!

Thanks DJ!

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