Questions about the scripts and waitmotion

[guarddog13]

So I have a script that I'm running to detect motion which sends curl posts to AgentDVR with Deepstack built in. (See below).

Turning on the "motion (person) sensor" is nearly perfect. However, turning it off is very unreliable. What I noticed is that the else side happens while your in the room moving about. It doesn't fire again when I walk out of the room. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I've tried adding sleeps on both sides of the "if." Am I doing something wrong. What I want to happen is have the else side fire when motion stops on the camera and wait and send the post requests.

Any help would be greatly appreaciated as I'm at a loss.

#!/bin/sh

sleep 15
while true; do
  ret=$(cmd waitmotion 1000)

  if [[ "$ret" == "detect"* ]]; then
    curl "http://agent dvr object here"
    sleep 1
  else
    curl "http://agent dvr object detect here"
    curl -k --insecure -X POST https://webhook here for ha to delay post for object detection which didn't work
  fi
done

[guarddog13]

When i test this. The else side never fires. It just stops once motion stops I put echos in on that side and nothing, nothing at all.

[guarddog13]

Seems doing it like this makes it very reliable. Just let it check every 1 second for 10 seconds, it continues while you leave the room and triggers things correctly.

#!/bin/sh

sleep 15
while true; do
  ret=$(cmd waitmotion 1000)

  if [[ "$ret" == "detect"* ]]; then
    curl "http://192.168.1.242:8090/command.cgi?oid=7&ot=2&cmd=triggerobject"
    sleep 1
    curl "http://192.168.1.242:8090/command.cgi?oid=7&ot=2&cmd=triggerobject"
    sleep 1
    curl "http://192.168.1.242:8090/command.cgi?oid=7&ot=2&cmd=triggerobject"
    sleep 1
    curl "http://192.168.1.242:8090/command.cgi?oid=7&ot=2&cmd=triggerobject"
    sleep 1
    curl "http://192.168.1.242:8090/command.cgi?oid=7&ot=2&cmd=triggerobject"
    sleep 1
    curl "http://192.168.1.242:8090/command.cgi?oid=7&ot=2&cmd=triggerobject"
    sleep 1   
    curl "http://192.168.1.242:8090/command.cgi?oid=7&ot=2&cmd=triggerobject"
    sleep 1    
    curl "http://192.168.1.242:8090/command.cgi?oid=7&ot=2&cmd=triggerobject"
    sleep 1    
    curl "http://192.168.1.242:8090/command.cgi?oid=7&ot=2&cmd=triggerobject"
    sleep 1    
    curl "http://192.168.1.242:8090/command.cgi?oid=7&ot=2&cmd=triggerobject"
    sleep 1