Installation

Requirements

• a machine running a recent Linux distro
• python 2.7
• tornado 3.1+
• jinja2
• PIL or pillow
• curl & pycurl
• motion (optional)
• ffmpeg (optional)
• v4l-utils (optional)

The Motion Daemon

The motion daemon itself is optional, but needed in most cases. Install it (along with ffmpeg and v4l-utils) unless you configure a machine that will only act as a hub for other motionEye-based cameras.

There are three major versions of motion:

• The stable version (3.2.12 at the time of writing) is included with most distros, but is highly outdated and lacks features like RTSP camera support. The source code can be downloaded from here. It's important to note that this version uses an older configuration file format, incompatible with newer ones (supported by motionEye, nevertheless).

• The SVN version (r564 at the time of writing) lives in this repository. The SVN version is newer and may perform better in some situations but seems to be less stable. The development here seems to be discontinued.

• Mr-Dave's version can be checked out here. This is probably the most up-to-date, featureful and stable version, itself being forked from sackmotion repository.

Read the Compiling Motion page if you want to manually compile any of these versions.

Install Instructions

motionEye releases are uploaded to PyPI, so you can use the pip command to install it as well as (some of) its dependencies. Following are detailed instructions for some common distributions.

note 1: The given commands normally need to be run as root; type them in a root shell or use sudo before each command. note 2: If you are configuring a motionEye system that will only act as a hub for other motionEye-based cameras (i.e. no locally connected cameras and no IP cameras), you can skip installing motion, ffmpeg and v4l-utils.

Debian

You'll need to add the following repo to your apt sources (required for ffmpeg):

echo "deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stable main non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update

Install motion, ffmpeg and v4l-utils:

apt-get install motion ffmpeg v4l-utils

Install the dependencies from the repositories:

apt-get install python-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

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

pip install motioneye

Prepare the configuration directory:

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

Add an init script, configure to run at startup and start the motionEye server:

Debian 7, sysvinit-based:

cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.init-debian /etc/init.d/motioneye
update-rc.d -f motioneye defaults
/etc/init.d/motioneye start

Debian 8, systemd-based:

cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.systemd-unit /etc/systemd/system
systemctl enable motioneye
systemctl start motioneye

Raspbian

Fedora

Arch Linux

Other Distributions

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