Install On Raspbian

Before Proceeding

• Read the general Installation page first.
• These instructions apply only to an up-to-date Raspbian Stretch.
• All commands require root; use sudo before each command or become root using sudo -i.
• If you want to use the CSI camera module for the Raspberry PI, make sure you have enabled it in raspi-config.
• If you want to use the MMAL interface of the CSI camera module, you'll need to make sure vcgencmd is in your path, by running ln -s /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd /usr/bin/vcgencmd.

Instructions

1. Install ffmpeg and v4l-utils:

    apt-get install ffmpeg v4l-utils
   

   note: v4l-utils appears to be preinstalled on Raspbian systems

2. Install libmariadbclient18 and libpq5 required by motion:

    apt-get install libmariadbclient18 libpq5
   

3. Install motion:

    wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/download/release-4.1/pi_stretch_motion_4.1-1_armhf.deb
    dpkg -i pi_stretch_motion_4.1-1_armhf.deb
   

   note: Raspbian Stretch comes with motion version 4.0; it is however recommended that you install version 4.1

4. Install the dependencies from the repositories:

    apt-get install python-pip python-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev
   

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

    pip 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:

    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:

    pip install motioneye --upgrade
    systemctl restart motioneye