Run exe after motion detection

[tiberius0716]

Hi folks

What Im looking for, if its available, is an app or a method to run an .exe file when motion detection has been captured.

For example.. there are many motion detection apps. Say I have an open house, and I have a tablet setup at the front door on a pedestal, think type kiosk. What I want is that once the motion detection app is triggered by someone entering the home... Id like it to play, say, a video file. You know, like a welcome message. Welcome and thanks for visiting... blah blah blah. Or even a simple powerpoint presentation.

Can this be done? and how.

Thanks!

 

[Hadron]

What does the motion detector app itself do? If it has such an option, or can broadcast a flag that other apps can use, then this might be possible (if you can find another app that would listen to the broadcast). If the motion detection is just internal information in the motion detection app then you can only do what that app can do.

As an aside, talking about ".exe" is likely to cause confusion. ".exe" is a suffix for a Windows executable, which obviously won't run on Android. It's not a general term for an app or program, and not used in other operating systems, so if you use it in a post here people may assume you mean it literally and want to run a Windows program.

 

[AZgl1500]

Well said @Hadron

that is exactly what I was going to ask of the OP.

 

[tiberius0716]

What does the motion detector app itself do? If it has such an option, or can broadcast a flag that other apps can use, then this might be possible (if you can find another app that would listen to the broadcast). If the motion detection is just internal information in the motion detection app then you can only do what that app can do.

As an aside, talking about ".exe" is likely to cause confusion. ".exe" is a suffix for a Windows executable, which obviously won't run on Android. It's not a general term for an app or program, and not used in other operating systems, so if you use it in a post here people may assume you mean it literally and want to run a Windows program.

Ok basically.. when the camera motion detection app senses movement... its next command would be to open a certain file or app. Like a video.

For example YAWCAM for windows does just that:

When it detects motion you can tell it this.... to run something when popping out of sleep mode.

This is what I am looking for on android. A Yawcam android app.

Thanks

 

[Hadron]

OK, when you said that "there are many motion detector apps" I thought you had tried some Android apps (which is why I asked what the apps did).

I've had a look at a few, but all seem to be just for sending images when motion is detected rather than running an arbitrary app on the device. So I'm afraid that unless someone pops up here with experience of one that does what you want it may be a matter of searching the Play Store and looking at each in turn to see if there is one that is more than a remote camera and lets you choose the action it will perform.

 

[Thom]

Use one of them perhaps that sends a notification or intent 0r stores a file somewhere. A Tasker Profile would then get triggered and launch the desired app.

No I have not implemented it.

... Thom