Install On Fedora

note: These instructions apply to relatively recent Fedora distributions. Depending on the release, you'll need to replace dnf with the older yum command.

1. Make sure you have rpmfusion added to your system (required for both ffmpeg and motion):

    dnf install --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
   

2. Install motion, ffmpeg and v4l-utils:

    dnf install motion ffmpeg v4l-utils
   

   note: For other versions of motion check out Compiling Motion instead of installing it using dnf.

3. Install the dependencies from the repositories:

    apt-get install python-pip python-devel gcc
   

   note: Python 2.7 is required. If your system still runs Python 2.6 or older, please upgrade.

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

    pip install motioneye
   

5. Prepare the configuration directory:

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

6. Prepare the media directory:

    mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye
   

7. 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