Build your own surveillance camera with raspberry pi and

motion eye.

Hi there, in this project I'm going to show the steps I done how I setup my raspberry pi security camera
with 2 webcam using motioneye in this tutorial I use a 1080p A4 - Tech camera & low resolution A4-Tech
camera you can plug multiple camera on the raspberry pi but I suggest to max it up to 2 or 3. Also note
that this will not cover how to access the surveillance camera at office or at other places
places(can only access
it thru your network),, this will focus on how you'll able to setup a home surveillance with multiple
camera using a raspberry pi and d motioneye an easy step by step procedure.

Here's the hardware I use for my home surveillance system:

1. Raspberry pi 2 Model B - View

Note: I purchased my pi year 2015 that time Raspberry Pi 3 Model B was not yet been released. If
you're planning to build your own home surveillance system with raspberry pi I suggest get the latest
model.

2. Heat Sink - View

3. Case & Pi Fan - View

4. Memory ( More space much better for saving images & videos ) - View

6. 1080P A4-Tech Camera - View

7. A4-Tech Camera - View

8. USB WiFi Dongle - View

9. VGA to HDMI - View

Notice that I use a heat sink and a fan to reduce the temperature and since it's processing an image &
video obviously the temperature can go easily high but it's normal and optional it's not required though
it's up to you.

Installation ( Fresh setup No OS )

Assuming that you have a new pi and trying to figure out how to build your own affordable home
surveillance with multiple cameras that's capable at motion detection and records it or take a pictures
using a raspberry pi and motioneye. Here's what you need to do:

Step 1: Download the latest OS here I suggest to use the Raspbian latest version, in my case I use the
latest RASPBIAN JESSIE WITH DESKTOP version "2017-07-05" by the time this tutorial was made.

Step 2: Write it to your SD Card, download & install the software etcher it's easy to use don't worry, it
takes a couple of minutes to write the image depending on your machine and when it's finished writing,
your SD Card will look like only a couple of MBs space left but it's normal don't panic when it happened.

Step 3: Insert the SD Card to your pi remember at first installation SSH is disabled by default so the only
work around here is to plugged your monitor to the raspberry pi hdmi, you'll gonna need a VGA to HDMI
converter. It's necessary to enable so you can access your pi in other PC / Laptop / Devices using a Putty
client if there's something you want to add or you want to shutdown / reboot your pi. Unless you want
to run it with monitor for a long time.

Once the raspberry is loaded click the command line at the taskbar and type the following command:

sudo raspi-config
This will show you a bunch of options similar to the image bellow:

Choose #5 & another settings will show up like this:

Choose P2 and press enter after doing this your ssh is now enabled.

Step 4: For fresh install raspbian you need to set the root password manually ( if you don't know the
default password) to do this just enter this command and enter your desired password :

sudo passwd root

Step 5: You need to remember some command can't be used without a root privileges that's why we
need to log as root user for us to be able to perform administrative tasks to do this just type "su" at the
command line and enter the password that you set at Step 4. Once you're log in as root, type this
command to updates the dependencies of the pi.

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade

Step 6: motioneye require some dependencies for it to enable some features in this tutorial we will
going to install all dependencies required for it to run all the features. Let's start by installing the ffmpge
for the video let's download the package by using this command:

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

After the download let's install it to our pi, in here you need to have a root privileges as discussed at
Step 5.

dpkg -i ffmpeg_3.1.1-1_armhf.deb

Step 7: We need to make sure that there's no duplicate libraries for your home security camera to work
properly. Let's remove some packages that can interfere on motioneye using this command.

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

Step 8: Let's install a couple of dependencies:

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

libavcodec56 libavformat56 libmysqlclient18 libswscale3 libpq5
Step 9: Download the motioneye package:

wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/download/release-
4.0.1/pi_jessie_motion_4.0.1-1_armhf.deb

After the download let's install it:

dpkg -i pi_jessie_motion_4.0.1-1_armhf.deb

pip install motioneye

Step 10: Prepare the configuration directory:

mkdir -p /etc/motioneye

and

cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf

Step 11: Prepare the media directory:

mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye

Step 12: 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

Step 13: That's it you have now installed the motioneye and you now have a home surveillance camera
using raspberry pi. To access the configuration go to your raspberry IP Address there's two way to your
IP:

1. If you are still connected to your raspberry pi, you can type this command: ifconfig
2. Or access your router dashboard to find your raspberry pi address.

If you are able to find it type this to your browser: Your-raspberry-ip-address: 8765 and you'll be able to
render a login form.
 MOTION EYE BASIC SETUP

1. Once you access your IP address you'll be prompt with a login form, remember that at default the
user is 'admin' and leave the password empty.

2. It's time to plug-in those web camera for your DIY home surveillance wait for a couple of seconds to
be recognized by your raspberry pi refer to the image below:
3. Once you add all you home surveillance camera you need to have an access to the advance settings of
motioneye to do this refer to the image below:
4. Only if your camera capable of automatic brightness in my case the 1080P A4-Tech has this.

5. Settings for image capture when motion is detected it will take a pictures.

Image Quality: Self explainable it's up to you if you go 100%.

Capture Mode: There are 3 other options here I haven't tried the other except 'Motion Triggered' this
settings allowed to take a snapshot if it's triggered by motion.

Preserve Pictures: Duration how the image will be saved to your storage (SD Card).
6. Settings for video recording when a motion is detected it's the same settings to image.

7. Motion Detection settings for your surveillance camera this is also important you'll be able to tweak
some default settings in motion detection.

Frame Changes Threshold: I found this sensitive in my test I can say the option that fit best for my
camera is 5%, It checks the slightest changes on the environment and found no problem when I check
the log of my home surveillance camera I found images / recordings with people walking.
Motion Gap: The gap between movement and none movement.

Captured Before & Capture After: Self explainable

Minimum Motion Frames: Count of frame that it detect of motion, meaning to say if the camera found
a motion it will wait for two frames and check if those motion are not the same, if found not match it
will start to take a pictures & take a video recording of those motions, this settings rely on the Frame
Changes Threshold.

That's it enjoy! :D

I also post it here just in case you want to view:

https://www.instructables.com/id/Build-Your-Own-Surveillance-Camera-With-Raspberry-/