Motion detection email okay but no images attached

[adriaan]

Greetings,

Last week I updated a raspberry pi zero W with the latest image (20206060) and had to reconfigure (stupid, no config backup) but okay so far so good even motion detection works and as an extension of that even email notification.

However in the previous situation I did receive at least some pictures attached to each email message. Not anymore.

What am I missing for images to be attached?

With regards, Aad.

[StarbaseSSD]

The issue isn't usually 'what is missing' but 'what do you have too many of'?

The search for files to attach algorithm has to search through ALL the videos/pics, and has a tendency to time out.

The better solution is to move the files out of the File Storage folder tree if you need to keep them.

There is a work-around, though.

ssh or use the console to get a command line.

use the command:

nano /data/etc/motioneye.conf

add the line

list_media_timeout_email 20

<ctrl> x   y to save

then use the command:

reboot

and test. If 20 seconds still doesn't work, you can increase it to 30. I don't recommend any higher though.  It would be better to 'clean up' the File Storage' directory tree.