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motionEye is a 'eb 2rontend 2or a !inu3 %ideo sur%eillance
program called motion. #his tutorial 'ill 'al4 you through
the necessary steps to install and con2igure motionEye on a
Raspberry PI. 5ou 'ill build yoursel2 an intelligent %ideo
sur%eillance system based on a2ordable components and
opensource so2t'are.
Special than4s go to 6enneth !a%rsen1 the original author o2
motion1 a great piece o2 so2t'are that does all the hard 'or4
2or this project.
motion7ye "eatures
'eb inter2ace1 responsi%e design
user$pass'ord protection 8administrator and normal user9
mjpg streaming
motion detection1 output to jpeg and a%i 2iles
timelapse capturing
bro'sing1 pre%ie'ing and do'nloading o2 media 2iles
ad%anced camera settings
Required Hard'are
a Raspberry PI
a micro (S) po'er supply 8:V1 /A9
an S; memory card 8at least 0)9
an USB webcam or CSI camera board
an USB WiFi adapter 8optionally1 i2 an ethernet connection is not a%ailable9
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<nstalling #he =S
;o'nload the latest %ersion o2 the Raspbian operating system. Here you>ll 2ind
instructions on ho' to trans2er the =S image to the memory card. =nce the =S is on
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the S; card1 boot your Raspberry PI. #he commands presented 'ith the 2ollo'ing
steps are to be e3ecuted e3clusi%ely in a terminal on the Raspnberry PI.
)e2ore mo%ing on1 it is recommended that you update the pac4ages on your system?
<nstalling #he Required Pac4ages
motionEye requires a 2e' libraries and e3tra programs. <nstall them 'ith the
2ollo'ing command?
<nstalling motion7ye
Choose the latest %ersion 2rom the downoads list 8use the Tags tab9 and do'nload it
to /home/pi. (npac4 8replacing xyz 'ith the code in the 2ilename9?
A2ter this step you>ll ha%e motionEye installed in /home/pi/motioneye1 your current
directory.
Con2iguring motion7ye
Create a settings.py 2ile 2rom the e3isting template?
#he de2ault settings are good in most o2 the cases. <2 you 'ish to customi@e
motionEye1 you can later edit the settings.py 2ile - you>ll 2ind a short description
ne3t to each o2 the a%ailable options.
CS< Camera )oard
"ollo' this step only i2 you use the CS< Camera )oard instead o2 a regular (S)
'ebcam.
limitations
only a single camera module can be used 'ith motionEye
gi%en the high resolution at 'hich this camera can 'or41 it is possible that the
per2ormance o2 Raspberry PI be not enough 8processing o2 large images is
CP(-hungry9
the u%0l dri%er
#he camera module does not ha%e a nati%e !" dri%er 8at the time o2 'riting9. #here is
ho'e%er a set o2 #serspace components that emulate the !" inter2ace 2or such a
camera module.
1 sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
1 sudo aptitude install python-tornado python-jinja2 python-imaging
motion ffmpeg v4l-utils
1 cd /home/pi
2 tar zxvf ccrisan-motioneye-xyz.tar.gz
3 mv ccrisan-motioneye-xyz motioneye
4 cd motioneye
1 cp settingsdefault.py settings.py
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(P;A#7? no' it has ?9
the bcm.AB:C%0l. module
Append bcm2835_v4l2 to /etc/modules
troubleshooting
ma4e sure you run the latest %ersion o2 the Raspberry P< 2irm'are
ma4e sure you ha%e enabled the camera module in raspi-config
don>t o%ercloc4 your P< too much1 using the camera module causes core
o%erheating already
allocate at least D0M) o2 RAM to the P(
Running motion7ye
motionEye does not need root pri%ileges to runE it can be started directly 2rom the
directory 'here it 'as e3tracted?
<2 e%erything 'as properly installed and con2igured1 motionEye should emit an in2o
message saying that the server started. *o' point your bro'ser to
http$%%raspberrypi$&'() 8replacing raspberrypi 'ith the <P adress o2 your de%ice9.
#he motionEye 'eb inter2ace should sho' up. (se admin 'ith no pass'ord1 'hen
prompted 2or authentication. Start by adding a ne' camera and 2eel 2ree to
e3periment 'ith the %arious a%ailable settings.
&hen you>re done Fe3perimentingF1 hit ctrl-c.
Autostarting At )oot
5ou>ll probably 'ant motionEye to start automatically at boot. Add the 2ollo'ing line
to /etc/rc.local 8right be2ore the exit 09?
#his 'ill start the ser%er 'ith the user pi1 put the log into motioneye.log and run the
process in the bac4ground.
#he motion daemon 'ill be run automatically by motionEye - it should not run at
startup.

1 sudo nano /etc/module
1 ./motioneye.py
1 sudo -u pi sh -c !/home/pi/motioneye/motioneye.py " /home/pi
/motioneye/run/motioneye.log 2"&1! &
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Timothy A Gorman Works at Punk Rock
Wow.. not running on a RBP but this is the best and lightest linux surveillance system I've used
to date
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Jean David
Great work. It was just lack the action to take upon detection of movement (on_event_start)
and at the end of the movement (on_event_end).
Thank you for giving us the benefit of your work.
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