Camera Server
Install Motion
1. Install some motion dependencies:
sudo apt install autoconf automake build-essential pkgconf libtool git libzip-dev libjpeg-dev gettext libmicrohttpd-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libavdevice-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev libpq-dev libsqlite3-dev libwebp-dev
2. Install ffmpeg and other motion dependencies:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libmariadb3 libpq5 libmicrohttpd12 -y
3. Install motion. You can also install the latest version of motion from Motion-Project:
wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/download/release-4.3.2/pi_buster_motion_4.3.2-1_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i pi_buster_motion_4.3.2-1_armhf.deb
Install on Raspbian Bullseye (Optional)
1. Disable motion service, motionEye controls motion:
sudo systemctl stop motion
sudo systemctl disable motion
2. Install the dependencies from the repositories:
sudo apt-get install python2 python-dev-is-python2 -y
sudo curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py
sudo python2 get-pip.py
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev -y
3. Install motioneye, which will automatically pull Python dependencies (tornado, jinja2, pillow and pycurl):
sudo pip install motioneye
4. Prepare the configuration directory:
sudo mkdir -p /etc/motioneye
sudo cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf
5. Prepare the media directory:
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye
6. Add an init script, configure it to run at startup and start the motionEye server:
sudo cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.systemd-unit-local /etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable motioneye
sudo systemctl start motioneye
Upgrade motionEye (Optional)
1. To upgrade to the newest version of motionEye, just issue:
sudo pip install motioneye --upgrade
sudo systemctl restart motioneye
2. To upgrade to a specific version (say 0.27.1), use:
pip install --upgrade motioneye==0.27.1
Configure Motion
1. Configure the motion.conf file with the following lines.
sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf
Change the following:
daemon on
webcontrol_port 8080
webcontrol_localhost off
stream_port 8081
stream_localhost off
You can also change some of the camera configuration:
width 640
height 480
framerate 30
movie_quality 45
2. To enable the motion daemon, change the status of the start_motion_daemon in the motion file:
sudo nano /etc/default/motion
start_motion_daemon=yes
3. Reboot Pi, then access the localhost page on the stream port 8081 (http://192.168.xx.xx:8081):
sudo reboot
4. To stop/start/restart or check the motion server, type the following:
sudo service motion stop
sudo service motion start
sudo service motion restart
sudo service motion status