Feature Suggestion: Folder Creation/Motion Detection

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AlanH
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Feature Suggestion: Folder Creation/Motion Detection

Post by AlanH »

Just throwing a thought out there for a suggested enhancement.

Love the motion detection. What would be a great feature would be for the filename created by the motion detection and image array function to also be allowed to create directories. What do I mean by that?

Set the filename in the "save file" settings area as:
C:\VideoCapture\{dateY}-{dateM}-{dateD}\motion_{date}_{tstamp}_{tstampMS}.jpg

The software would then dynamically create a directory in the VideoCapture directory with the date so that all images from a given date are grouped together. Then, .MOV files can be made for each day, images more easily searched or stored in a database, or whatever.

Perhaps it's supposed to do this already, but I could never get the software to create a directory. Once it was there, it could write files to it and it worked great. But it wouldn't create the directory on its own.

Just a thought...

Alan
malun
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Post by malun »

It's a nice idea. I'll add it to the the TODO-list.
Thanks!

/malun
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