Install On Raspbian

Before Proceeding

• Read the general Installation page first.
• These instructions apply only to an up-to-date Raspbian, the official Raspberry PI distro.
• 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, you need to add bcm2835-v4l2 to /etc/modules and reboot.

Instructions

1. As you probably know, ffmpeg is missing from the official Debian repos. Moreover, the variant offered by deb-multimedia.org no longer works with Raspbian after recent updates. You can either compile it yourself (not recommended) or download this prebuilt package and install it:

    wget https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki/precompiled/ffmpeg_3.1.1-1_armhf.deb
    dpkg -i ffmpeg_3.1.1-1_armhf.deb
   

   note: If you have previously added the deb-multimedia repo to your system and installed their version of ffmpeg, you'll need to remove the repo from your apt sources and run the following commands to remove related libraries:

    apt-get remove libavcodec-extra-56 libavformat56 libavresample2 libavutil54
   

2. Install the dependencies from the repositories:

    apt-get install python-pip python-dev curl libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev libx264-142
   

   note: v4l-utils appears to be preinstalled on Raspbian systems; if it isn't, please install it

3. Install motion:

    wget https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki/precompiled/motion-mrdave-raspbian -O /usr/local/bin/motion
    chmod +x /usr/local/bin/motion
   

   note 1: The motion version provided by the official repos is too old and not recommended.

   note 2: For other versions of motion check out Compiling Motion.

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/local/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/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.systemd-unit-local /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