Install On Fedora

Before Proceeding

• Read the general Installation page first.
• These instructions apply to relatively recent Fedora distributions. Depending on the release, you'll need to replace dnf with the older yum command.
• All commands require root; use sudo before each command or become root using sudo -i.

Instructions

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
   

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
   

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

    pip install motioneye --upgrade
    systemctl restart motioneye