(Install On Ubuntu (20.04 or Newer)

Before Proceeding

• Read the general Installation page first.
• These instructions apply to Ubuntu distributions. They may work for other Ubuntu derivatives (such as Linux Mint) but they haven't been tested.
• All commands require root; use sudo before each command or become root using sudo -i.
• Install instructions confirmed as of 3/3/2021.

Instructions

1. Update and Upgrade fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 or newer.

    apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
   

2. Install ssh, curl', motion, ffmpegandv4l-utils`:

    apt-get install ssh curl motion ffmpeg v4l-utils -y
    reboot
   

3. Install the python 2.7 and pip2: (enter as separate lines, do not copy/paste as a group)

    apt-get install python2 -y
    curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py
    python2 get-pip.py
   

4. Install all prerequisites: (enter as separate lines, do not copy/paste as a group)

    apt-get install libffi-dev libzbar-dev libzbar0 -y
    apt-get install python2-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev -y
    apt-get install python-pil -y
   

5. Install motioneye, which will automatically pull Python dependencies (tornado, jinja2, pillow and pycurl):

    pip2 install motioneye
   

6. Prepare the configuration directory:

    mkdir -p /etc/motioneye
    cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf
   

7. Prepare the media directory:

    mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye
   

8. Add an init script, configure it to run at startup and start the motionEye server:

   • Ubuntu 15.04 or later, systemd-based:

       cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.systemd-unit-local /etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service
       systemctl daemon-reload
       systemctl enable motioneye
       systemctl start motioneye
     

9. To upgrade to the newest version of motionEye, just issue:

        pip2 install motioneye --upgrade
        systemctl restart motioneye