motion detection no longer detecting motion?!

[st moose]

have motioneyeOS setup on a RPi (has been for a few years now) with default settings 

a MMAL camera and a V4L2 camera both in/on a mount (so they havent moved - though i have removed them from the mounts and 'ran' in front of them both and neither detected motion)

the still images settings are 

capture mode - motion trigged

preserved pictures - custom 2 days

the motion detection settings are

motion gap 30 seconds

captured before 1 frame

captured after 1 frame

minimum motion frames 20 frames

working schedule on 6:00 - 19:00 everyday - detect during working schedule

have another setup the same way in a different location and that is working fine

i noticed this only because there was suppose to be a package delivered which i got a text from (USPS tracking) but the package was not there when i got home so was hoping that there wasnt a package thief so checked for video (which was not found) [side note the package was picked up by a family member who doesnt live at the house anymore but still gets mail here and they didnt tell anyone that they had picked it up]

so what might i be missing for motion detection?

  thanks

[StarbaseSSD]

"The motion detection settings are

> motion gap 30 seconds < If it completes a motion detection it will wait 30 seconds before it will start detecting again

> captured before 1 frame < It will only buffer 1 frame before starting recording

> captured after 1 frame < it will only apply 1 frame to the end of the movie

> minimum motion frames 20 frames < needs a long string of frames before it thinks there is movement

"

My settings are:

Frame Change Threshold  0.1%

Auto Threshold Tuning OFF

Auto Noise Detection ON

Despeckle Filter ON

motion gap 2 seconds

captured before 10 frame

captured after 10 frame

minimum motion frames 2 frames

for most of my cameras which are set to 10 or 15 frames per second receive streams at either 800x600 or 1280x720.

[StarbaseSSD]

Any help?

[st moose]

made changes and detecting motion again

odd that motion was being detected with previous (default) setting and stopped

getting strange pictures from the V4L2 (USB camera) (attached one of them)

also getting video even though movies is turned off ?!

thanks for the help! :) 

[StarbaseSSD]

Sounds like one of the config files is corrupt. The jpg you attached is also corrupt.

[st moose]

can the config files be copied from another install or just reinstall?

if copy where are the files that should be copied?

i see motioneye.conf in /etc/   did not dig any further for any other config files in case a reinstall is 'better'

thanks

[StarbaseSSD]

They are in the /etc/motioneye folder for a motionEye install on another OS, and in /data/etc/motioneye in a motionEyeOS install, but if do do an overwrite, you might as well do a clean install, as there is no telling what specifically corrupted the install, and what else might have been corrupted...