Errbot-motion-notify

Errbot plugin and bash scripts to notify when Motion detects activity

This collection of bash scripts and Errbot plugins, allows you to receive Gtalk/Jabber notifications when Motion detects... uhm, motion. The Errbot plugin allows you to interact with the bash scripts, allowing you to turn notifications on and off.

Apps used:

• sendxmpp
• motion
• errbot

The low-down:

• Copy sendxmpprc.motion somewhere appropriately, eg /etc/sendxmpprc.motion

• Make sure motion owns this file, chown motion. /etc/sendxmpprc.motion

• Copy the motion scripts somewhere, eg /opt/motion

• Make sure motion owns these files as well, chown -R motion. /opt/motion

• Create your config files for each user that will be notified in conf/config.*

• Change the values of your config.* file to fit your needs

• Go through motion-onoff.sh, motion-forceon.sh and on-motion-alert.sh to change the values relevant to you.

• Go through notify.py (errbot plugin) and modify the relevant values to fit your needs.

• Now you can fire up motion and errbot, you should be receiving messages from motion via sendxmpp and you can disable/enable it via errbot.

If you have any ideas to improve the plugin or bash scripts, feel free to share your thoughts.

Thanks:

Nick Groenen for helping me out on the Errbot community page