motion-screensaver

Simple script to turn off screensaver upon motion detection through webcam, uses the excellent motion tool.

Installation

sudo apt-get install motion
Edit /etc/default/motion and change start_motion_deamon to yes
Replace /etc/init.d/motion with modified motion.init
Edit /etc/init.d/motion and replace USER=bob with the user who logged into X (the motion deamon needs to run as the same user so it has permissions to stop the screensaver)
Update /etc/motion/motion.conf with the sample included in this repo
Put disable-screensaver somewhere sensible and update the path to it in /etc/motion/motion.conf
sudo service start motion

Create dedicated project that can run along side motion so it doesn't require hacking a bunch of system files
Figure out how run motion as a dedicated user instead of the currently logged in user
Add a start screensaver script and update config so when motion event ends, the screensaver will start again

Apache License, Version 2.0

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
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LICENSE		LICENSE
README.md		README.md
disable-screensaver		disable-screensaver
motion.conf		motion.conf
motion.init		motion.init