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_2.8.3.git325b593-1_armhf.deb
    dpkg -i ffmpeg_2.8.3.git325b593-1_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 reinstall the official version of some libav libraries:

    apt-get remove libavcodec-extra-56 libavformat56 libavresample2 libavutil54
    apt-get install libavutil54 libavformat56 libswscale3
   

2. Install motion:

    apt-get install motion
   

   note 1: v4l-utils appears to be preinstalled on Raspbian systems.

   note 2: A prebuilt version of Mr Dave's motion for Raspbian can be downloaded from here:

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

   note 3: For other versions of motion check out Compiling Motion instead of installing it using apt-get. Also make sure to configure the build using --with-ffmpeg=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf --with-ffmpeg-headers=/usr.

3. Install the dependencies from the repositories:

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

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