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bashshellraspberry-pimotion-detection

shell motion script to do task ,wait and then repeat?

I've installed motion mmal on raspberry pi and its recording video whenever I run startmotion script

     #!/bin/sh
     nohup /home/pi/mmal/motion -n -c /home/pi/mmal/motion-mmalcam.conf        1>/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null &

However, Its making continous video until I stop motion.

I want to make a video of 5 minute after every 1 hour. I tried timeout command

     #!/bin/sh
    timeout 5m nohup /home/pi/mmal/motion -n -c /home/pi/mmal/motion-mmalcam.conf        1>/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null &

How can i run this script after every 1 hour?

Solution

  • You can do it using crond: Enter: crontab -e

    0 * * * * nohup /home/pi/mmal/motion -n -c /home/pi/mmal/motion-mmalcam.conf 1>/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null &

    5 * * * * pkill -9 motion