Install On Arch

Before Proceeding

• Read the general Installation page first.
• These instructions apply to Arch Linux. They may work for other Arch-based distributions but the procedure hasn't been tested.
• All commands require root; use sudo before each command or become root using sudo -i.
• On a Raspberry Pi, you might need to add /opt/vc/bin to your PATH, in e.g. /etc/environment.

Instructions

1. Install ffmpeg and v4l-utils:

    pacman -S motion ffmpeg v4l-utils lsb-release
   

2. Install the dependencies from the repositories:

    pacman -S python2-pip base-devel mime-types curl
   

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

    pip2 install motioneye
   

4. Prepare the configuration directory:

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

5. Prepare the media directory:

    mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye
   

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

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

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

    pip2 install motioneye --upgrade
    systemctl restart motioneye