IP Camera binding floods "Item ... MotionAlarm set to OFF

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I am running #3480 on a Win11 platform (Zulu JRE 17) with 4 Hikvision cameras implemented as API things.
FFMpeg motion detection is switched off but basically working.
Since some builds I am facing flooding of Item “xxx MotionAlarm” switched to off although
FFMpeg motion alarm is disabled. CAmeras however are working as expected but I suspect that it takes processing power. Any clue how to fix?

09:33:21.194 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘DVBT_Grabber_Pingzeit’ updated to UNDEF
09:33:21.404 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:21.405 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:21.406 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:21.640 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM07_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:21.640 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM07_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:21.640 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM07_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:21.714 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:21.715 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:21.715 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:21.940 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM07_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:21.940 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM07_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:21.941 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM07_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:22.025 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:22.026 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:22.027 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:22.333 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:22.333 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:22.335 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:22.644 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:22.645 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:22.645 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:22.954 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:22.955 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:22.956 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:23.265 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:23.266 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:23.266 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:23.504 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_ZWStick_01_sof’ updated to 42706
09:33:23.505 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_ZWStick_01_sof’ changed from 42705 to 42706
09:33:23.506 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_FGBS001_01_Temp01_acq’ updated to 22.31 °C
09:33:23.509 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_FGBS001_01_Temp01_acq’ changed from 22.37 °C to 22.31 °C
09:33:23.511 [INFO ] [org.openhab.core.model.script.rules ] - Check Hoval T1 value
09:33:23.513 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_FGBS001_01_Temp01_flt’ updated to 22.31 °C
09:33:23.514 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_FGBS001_01_Temp01_flt’ changed from 22.37 °C to 22.31 °C
09:33:23.514 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘dspASt23Vorlauf’ updated to 22,4 °C
09:33:23.525 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_ZWStick_01_sof’ updated to 42707
09:33:23.526 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_ZWStick_01_sof’ changed from 42706 to 42707
09:33:23.527 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_FGBS001_01_Temp02_acq’ updated to 22.25 °C
09:33:23.528 [INFO ] [org.openhab.core.model.script.rules ] - Check Hoval T2 value
09:33:23.529 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_FGBS001_01_Temp02_flt’ updated to 22.25 °C
09:33:23.574 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:23.575 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:23.575 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:23.602 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_FGBS001_01_Temp02_avg24’ updated to 21.9802877997635 °C
09:33:23.603 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_FGBS001_01_Temp02_avg24’ changed from 21.9797323818954 °C to 21.9802877997635 °C
09:33:23.666 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_FGBS001_01_Temp01_avg24’ updated to 22.37732431023995 °C
09:33:23.667 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item ‘ZW_FGBS001_01_Temp01_avg24’ changed from 22.37675234892126 °C to 22.37732431023995 °C
09:33:23.884 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:23.885 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:23.885 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:24.198 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:24.199 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:24.199 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:24.505 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:24.505 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF
09:33:24.506 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item ‘CAM03_MotionAlarm’ updated to OFF

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Are you concerned about the updates themselves or the fact that you are seeing these in the logs?

If the former I can’t help.

If the latter, if you are going to run the snapshots be sure to pay attention to the snapshot discussion thread where this was discussed sometime back. A new ItemStateUpdateEvent was added and, if you did not update log4j2.xml when you upgraded these new events (and a couple new Group update events as well) are not suppressed like the old Item state update events.

                <Logger level="ERROR" name="openhab.event.ItemStateEvent"/>
                <Logger level="ERROR" name="openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent"/>
                <Logger level="ERROR" name="openhab.event.GroupStateUpdatedEvent"/>
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I would read the above reply first as that is probably the reason, but to offer you two more options. As the more devices and bindings you use in your smart home the more this increases…

  1. You can filter out lines so that they do not reach the logs if one is annoying you.
  2. You can turn off the event logging altogether and this does not stop the ability to view the events when needed with the developer sidebar and its event viewer which I find better as it has filtering ability to narrow down what you watch in realtime.

Thanks for giving the reason why your asking. openHAB has the event bus which it needs and this is simply getting logged to a file, so you have the overheads of writting the info out to a file. It wont use much cpu power, besides your cpu is probably running at a 3% load most of the time. This can be a load or wear on the sd card, which is not an issue if you’re using openhabian with the Zram features turned on as it is then being done to ram and only written out to the file very rarely.

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