Usage -
It needs to be run of a laptop with a camera at the moment. It looks for the default capture device. However to use this capture technique your computer needs a little program called winvdig. It can be downloaded here - http://www.shiffman.net/vdig/ The version needed is 101. This is because the capture relies on quicktime, and windows is windows. Anyway back to the app.
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The number in the top left is the total movement in the current frame. Good for finding your threshold number. This can be selected by clicking on the white boxes. The values are 100, 200, 300, 400. Clicking anywhere else on the screen will set the threshold to 5000 effectively shutting the app off.
With a threshold of 100 a simple nod will trigger the GO and then with 400 it needs more of a bigger gesture. A wave of an arm will do.
Once the command is sent the programs waits for about a second or two. This is to counteract sending multiple GOs with one gesture.
This works surprisingly well in the dark, as the light comming from the laptop screen on lights a very short range so swiping your hand past it turns out to be a fairly effective trigger without too much interference with backround movement.
Unzip the rar to your laptop and either connect to the network of your board or to the OLE if it's for testing. Then look in the folder and find the defaults.txt file. Replace the first number with your own IP and the word is the cuelist to be triggered. Be careful with the structure of this file, there must be a tab between the two variables and they must both be on the first line of the file.
quickstart (on laptop and OLE):
dowload motionGO.rar
install winvdig101 from http://www.shiffman.net/vdig/
start OLE, create and populate a cuelist called trigger
run app and start flapping your arms
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