hello!

I've been messing with pix_video etc to get my webcam to do motion detection things but I'm hitting a bad block and cannot figure out how to properly do this command

basically I'm attempting to use a webcam to detect the presence of a user, and when it registers a visitor, it sends a signal to turn on DSP. when the user is not in sight, the DSP goes off.

could anyone point to any existing projects I might refer to to get a better sense of how this works?

with motion detection to MIDI seems pretty straight forward because the stream of numbers is always there, but with an operation to trigger YES/NO it seems a bit tricky even with Moses utilised.

thanks for any help!

@banihaykal You will find all you need here....... https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/12033/multimedia-programming-with-pure-data
You might also be interested in https://hcgilje.wordpress.com/vpt/ which has a video trigger add on and can send midi and osc messages. It is a useful tool, but Pd will do what you are looking for.
David.

@banihaykal You can try something like that, but I am sure there is a better way...

Patch is available here:
http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/patches/patch/75

hello hello!

omg thank you so much both of you!

im gonna try both methods and see what works.

there might be some libraries I don't have, but if I run into any issues I'll drop another note.

thanks again so much and I'll credit both for your assistance on this project!