Install on Raspbian Buster - mdPlusPlus/motioneye GitHub Wiki

Before Proceeding

  • Read the general Installation page first.
  • These instructions apply only to an up-to-date Raspbian Bullseye.
  • 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.
  • Installation instructions confirmed on RaspberryPiOS 20211030 Lite, on 8 Nov 2021
  • Installation instructions confirmed on RaspberryPiOS 20211030 Full Desktop, on 8 Nov 2021

Instructions

  1. Install ffmpeg and other motion dependencies:

     apt-get install ffmpeg libmariadb3 libpq5 libmicrohttpd12 -y

  2. Install motion:

     wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/download/release-4.3.2/pi_buster_motion_4.3.2-1_armhf.deb 
 dpkg -i pi_buster_motion_4.3.2-1_armhf.deb

    Disable motion service, motionEye controls motion

     systemctl stop motion
 systemctl disable motion

  3. Install the dependencies from the repositories: (copy/paste as single lines, not as a block)

     apt-get install python2 python-dev-is-python2 -y

 curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py

 python2 get-pip.py

 apt-get install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev -y

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

     pip install motioneye

    note: If pillow installation fails (hangs and ends at 99%), you can install it from official repos using apt-get install python-pil -y and rerun 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