DIY Raspberry PI Surveillance System with MotionEyeOS

How to Build DIY Raspberry Pi 4 surveillance system with MotionEyeOS. We will also be using RPi Zero and IP camera
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[@davocc2405]

am curious to see the CPU load and memory load on the Pi hosting this with three streams going - did you SSH into it and run HTOP or Glances, etc.?

[@NicholasSouris]

I don't know why, but I love to hear the "hack till it hurts" at the end.

[@Aerox90]

I've used Raspberry Pi's as main component in all my securitysystems during the past years - and they are SO much better than ANY $300+ surveliance-system! A Raspberry Pi can do everything that ANY premium security system can + whatever custom feature you want - and all this for just a fraction of the price! 😁👍 By installing a pre-configured system from a security company, you put your trust and security in the hands of complete strangers... With Raspberry Pi's - YOU make the rules and keep control! Think about it. Do you actually KNOW that the operators are NOT secretly spying on you through your brand new $800 "super secure" surveliancesystem? 🤔 No. You don't. - "But what if I disconnect the cameras from my internernet?" You might ask. Well, if the systems are depending on a internetconnection in order to work (which btw is a HUGE red flag), then the PCB could include a eSim-module, wich would allow the cameras to re-connect over 4G in the case of a power-outage. And if they're serious about security - then they already have a solution prepared for a situation like that. (...And you should include a plan for unexpected power-outages in your system as well)

[@bastianm5478]

I've always wondered if a security camera solution could be secure if the robbers steal everything including the camera and NAS. How would I be able to solve this?

[@Lukes-Tech]

Nice one Don!

[@DaveGagliardi]

This is a great walk through Don, thanks for doing this!

[@SDenhoff]

Great video, thanks! Question, how difficult would it be to get to the underlying OS to run a cron job, something like log rotate, to tar up and export older videos to a central file share? I know I could just install it and see, but I’m out of town with minimal access to the stuff I have at home.

[@skydragon1966]

I have everything working, but I can not get the pi o to connect. I tried a new pi a new card and nothing works. WIFI just wont connect. I installed Rasbian on the pi 0 and the camera works, but when I try it on motion eye just keeps rebooting. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I love your projects but this one got me beat.

[@kaptain1477]

Can the cameras support night vision

[@pravardhanus]

Wow! You have explained all the options that are available in motioneyeos in one video.

[@onlynonsense8723]

Video starts at 2:30

[@seanfitzmaurice1]

Just put together a similar setup. Your video was a great help, thank you. Only thing I did differently was used my NAS for storage rather than relying on the pi’s SD.. uploading lower res files to Dropbox too. One question: what FPS are you getting on the zero cam? I can get 30fps on my high quality cam but can’t seem to get the zero cam higher than 5fps or so

[@amateurtech736]

For the benefit of anyone currently going crazy as to why this isn't working. The current "stable" for the pi4b refuses to boot. The dev build is fine though

[@rjlugge6940]

I cant get the dev build to work either.

[@user-dy5ho4sj2w]

Dude, you have an incredible lighting setup!

[@garthkey]

I understand this video is dated now but i've been trying to setup a pi 4 with motioneyeOS with no luck, The Pi either dont post. or it gives a splash screen about no sd card detected

[@ForrestRhoads]

These are good topics to explore. Perhaps you could double check that the process works when writing to a hard disk on the pi 4

[@kevinshumaker3753]

It will not boot/run from a HD. It is hard-coded to mmcblk0p1 & 2. You can use an attached USB for local storage, HD, Thumb, etc. or any NAS with SMB or FTP support, or cloud storage like GDrive & DropBox.

[@korrupted80]

Thanks for the information! Can we get information on where we can configure this to store on NAS or Cloud Storage?

[@riddlesphinxx]

Can you use the Amcrest like this without the cloud service? I want to make my own setup, but if I can just spend $50 on the camera instead of buying another pi and finding a 3D printer I would.

[@ForrestRhoads]

I was thinking about this a little more: I could actually use this for home surveillance if I set cameras to activate on motion when I left my house to travel and the system could send me an email if motion was detected. How could I do that?

[@NovaspiritTech]

yes it can do that, you can also setup schedules for times when you want the motion to activate

[@kevinshumaker3753]

Yep, there is email notification of motion available, as well as the scheduling...

[@MrSephkeene]

The way I used to do it was, in MotionEyeOS, you can set it to save to Goodgl Drive or Dropbox, and the like. I would just check Google drive here and there to see what triggered it.

[@ForrestRhoads]

@@MrSephkeene That seems like a good idea. One could also run a bash script...wake it up every 5 minutes... First time through the loop, store the file size for the video file that the camera is maintaining. Every other time through the loop, compare the initial file size to the present file size. If the file size had changed, trigger a python pgm or Google script that sends a text or email. I suppose one could also trigger an alarm Denice that had an ip address

[@JackyTran]

Is it possible to do an ad hoc or peer to peer connection so that you don’t have to rely on the internet?

[@warren488]

is the performance on the pi zero camera better than when running motioneyeos directly on it, I would love this setup but from what im seeing the pi zeros performance is not that great

[@simpleanimation7481]

I have a tricky question. I want to build a rover with 3 cameras with this software and a raspberry pi zero w that can go 400 feet away from me and have the cameras still connected. I have everything figured out except for how to keep the cameras connected so I can see them from my computer. Could you help me?

[@deadp1geoncryptoandgaming]

would i be able to do this on an old laptop instead of a pi?

[@windmill1965]

Interesting stuff. You mention that the SD card size limitations make that you have to be careful about video settings and the number of cameras. I recall that you have a NAS on your home network. These also offer software to use as the central point for a surveillance system. And your NAS has a much larger storage capacity. Have you considered using your NAS for this application?

[@NovaspiritTech]

yup, i will put this on my NAS, but this video shows how to put it all inclusive in one area like the PI

[@xvnon]

@@NovaspiritTech are you able to show how to hook it up to a nas or a storage device and would you ne able to use poe cameras hooked up to a poe switch?

[@futuregootecks]

super helpful, thank you!

[@Super6ix06]

Can you make a 24/7 6 ch surveillance system for a car with this?

[@ramblinman4197]

Have you tried using any of the Amcrest PoE outdoor IP cameras with motionEyeOS and the Pi? I have read about them and it sounds like they support the same protocol you are using with the indoor camera. Thanks for the video very informative!

[@0views372]

Hey Don, is it possible to have motion eye set up on a proxmox VM? I'm thinking of setting up a pi zero with a camera as a little motion sensor camera thing and have that connect to a motioneye VM on proxmox

[@MrJaz8088]

MotionEyeOS is Great, been using it with a Pi Zero

[@divvelamanikanta709]

can i use raspberry pi 3b for single camera and uploaing video into cloud?

[@fahvm4362]

Great 💪🏻💪🏻

[@TheSensationalMr.Science]

if you don't want to use motioneye and are looking for an alternative, there is kerberos.io, and shinobi.video. kerberos has docker images for the pi and has the same command and control center and shinobi is an open source CCTV solution I found.Hope this helps those looking for alts, I do also have a question though about its security if its connected to wifi, how do you secure the connection to and from the cameras? is it a built in function? hope you have a great day & Safe Travels!

[@korrupted80]

Interesting, please do post a article about this setup and elaborate if you could please!

[@TheSensationalMr.Science]

@@korrupted80 they actually have their own documentation for kerberos at their website, but heres the docker instruction link for kerberos: doc.kerberos.io/opensource/installation/#docker. Shinobi has documentation here: shinobi.video/docs/ , though shinobi seems to have problems with docker.

[@budimanjojo4456]

Are you planning on making a video integrating this with Home Assistant? I would be really grateful if you do 🙏

[@kevinshumaker3753]

The "Community" version of motionEye on Home Assistant isn't the same as the motionEye or motionEyeOS versions, and is supported by Frenck (Franck Nijhof)

[@AcielGamingTech]

Hey Don, Thank you for doing this video, which I asked for a month or so ago. How can we use wired POE IP Cameras? as recording over WiFi can not be reliable & can cause congestion if one doesn't have good local networking.

[@NovaspiritTech]

POE IP cameras will require a POE hub, and as for recording wireless, this will be an issue for IP CAMERA with poor connection, not for rpi zero w since those record then transfers to SMB

[@AcielGamingTech]

@@NovaspiritTech Can we use POE Hub/Switch connected to router and then use rtsp stream over ethernet?

[@alanstedman6716]

Another great video Don. Any reason not to change the pi zero to a fast network camera and have better frame rates?

[@JohnDoe-eo8gi]

Fewer frames per second equate to smaller file sizes. You don’t need as much info in security cam footage that we want for other film purposes

[@jerwalls]

I am not dumb so it is really challenging to understand where I go wrong with every single Pi project. Nothing works! Please, help or direct me to somewhere that can prevent these little computers from ending up in the landfill cuz I've about had it. So frustrated!

[@ryzech4168]

I attempted this a year ago but my frickin pi cam cable broke so I could t use it. But I have a USB camera so I might try this sometime soon

[@hoffa_82nd2]

Two Questions Don ? 1st.......can you set up multiple cameras (6) using one Pi 4 or several Pi 4. 2nd.....would recommend a NAS device for storage and as the Main OS for the 6 Camera system.

[@NovaspiritTech]

Yes you can setup multiple camera with 1 pi(max I tried was 3). And yes I highly recommend using nas as storage instead since sd cards are unreliable

[@hoffa_82nd2]

@@NovaspiritTech Thank You very much......great vids and info on Pi.....I am new to this so I am just learning

[@kenlee7230]

Hi Don, I am not sure what have I done wrong with installing Motioneyeos in the SD card. The message showed : start4.elf: is not compatible This board requires newer software Error: 00000044 Insert SD-CARD appreciate your help

[@gargoyled_drake]

dosnt seem like mEYEos is compatible with raspberry pi boards anymore, the startelf4 is outdated.

[@gargoyled_drake]

no, it needs to be updated to be compatible with the newest firmware of raspberry pi boards, right now mEYEos is unusable with raspberry pis

[@gargoyled_drake]

also, MotionEyeOS is abandoned by developer, with the issues of compatibility with the newest firmware of raspberry pi i would not recommend anyone wasting their time on this, i just wasted an entire day trying to get it to work, looking up different answers on workarounds and fixes and nothing works. my advice, find an alternative, cause this does not work anymore.

[@corylyon545]

@@gargoyled_drake Any suggestions for other projects to try out?

[@MrX-yg7rz]

not work " configuring wired network: no device" :/... WTF??? I have wifi adapter on rpi zero

[@mikerozman]

Great video as always. Can you make a video going over the process for viewing the cameras remotely outside your home network without using port forwarding? I am using a Verizon Hot Spot with my Raspberry pi. The problem is that I can't get port forwarding to work with the cameras/raspberry pi using port forwarding on the hot spot. If you could make a video showing how to view the cameras remotely without using port forwarding that would be great. Thanks.

[@fsociety4829]

then you can try a router with openvpn service inside of it but only with tap adapter (mostly Asus routers have it)

[@denisgrabocka1269]

I have been using this set up as my garage and side of the house camera system for a while now, but the darnest thing happened :) that I can not find a solution to. I can see the settings and i can watch the cameras using a ipcam viewer app or any other camera viewer by using the streaming urls that motionEye gives out however i can not watch the cameras through any browser!!! the wheel just keeps spinning...for the longest time it was working fine but not anymore. Like i said the cameras are there and configured properly just that any of the browsers being Chrome, Edge Samsung internet on mobile can not display them form the motionEyes dashboard / landing page ....anyone has any ideas why??? Again if i type the streaming urls form every cameras settings page on motionEye i can see the feeds!!! Thank you

[@jamestan1390]

I use VLC or OBS to view the streams.

[@wivhouse3895]

Good video are you able to get motion detection on the ip camera as I didn’t think that was possible ?

yes motion detection works with motion eye os

[@Blu702]

Have 4 raspberry pi's in my network: 1x RPi4 - Motionpie OS - Security Cameras - With rclone to save videos/images to Google Drive. 1xRPi4 - RaspAP - AccessPoint 1xRPi3 - Pihole - Ad Blocker/dns server 1xRPi2 - RasPBX - Asterisk VoIP server Along with the following: A Pfsense firewall CadWell-0205, netgear 8 port managed switch, (4 port poe), Desktop, laptop, chromecast and tv Cellphone Grandstream VoIP phone I am wondering does anyone have any input as to what I can add to my network? I am adding an ESXi Server next... Definitely serves my needs.

[@kevinshumaker3753]

You forgot the motionEyeOS link! github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki

[@NovaspiritTech]

thankss

[@salamdamai]

Raspberry po zero w can’t handle motioneyeos

[@jonnoMoto]

The easiest way to encrypt your traffic is to ensure you're using a HTTPS link.

[@ashishpatel350]

Well not from the Nsa.

[@Aerox90]

@@ashishpatel350 I don't think the NSA would hire criminals. And if you actually manage to get a job at the NSA, then you probably wouldn't want to risk loosing it by abusing your "powers". I'm sure they are getting enough paid anyway! 😉 But yes, it's a little unconfortable knowing that your online activities are being monitored. Though the NSA is NOT the biggest threat against your personal data - Hackers with malicious intentions are! (Unless you're doing something you're not supposed to? 🤨) Don't get me wrong. I don't like the fact that the NSA can gain full access into my private life either. But they exist for a reason, and their work on fighting terrorism is obviously more important than my own values. So it's just a matter of priorities. Would you open up yourself for a safer world - or would you rather stay closed and let bombs fall all around you? 🤔 If you answer is "neither" then HOW else could we solve this problem? It's a complex topic. And unfortunately no matter what you choose, in the end a sacrifice HAS to be made - in one way or another. ...And as usual: Sh**storm arrives in 3..2..1... 😏

[@markdandeneau3404]

They say they don't keep logs. The reality may be different.

[@jasongooden917]

i cant even get this damn os to boot

[@haromanuel]

this isn't easy to understand

[@viaprenestina3894]

video starts at 04:00

[@mlagathomason2555]

Work with GoPro?

[@gargoyled_drake]

should do yes, gopro has wifi connection, so unless it's software required on connected devices, which would be a choice from the manufactures to lock it down like that, it should work with gopro. basicly if it dosnt, that's because gopro chose to not let their cameras work with anything that can't get the software for gopro.

[@techgamer-channeldeleted6951]

I don't know why , wait I remember I was searching for CCTV and then searched raspberry pi cam and this is only thing I am going to use ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡ I am home on Nas is secured

[@dawidwolnik628]

nice

[@jayjayd123]

@undecided uses same intro song

[@SausyGuyFinn]

Swag

[@mjbailey404]

Nobody but your VPN company can see your data. Better to use a tor connection tbh.

[@lordhexon]

Dude you know you can get 4k surveillance cameras on any site for few dollars !

[@marcusk7855]

Using a the HQ camera is pointless since the board is limited to 1080p 30fps encoding.

[@gargoyled_drake]

well yeah, before doing manual setup for more, you just gotta tinker with it some more and you can get the 60fps, but honestly that is overkill in my opinion

[@rodo1]

Hi, could you do an IoT project that notify us whenever Bitcoin drop 100$? I'm really interested with stuff like this but no one has done it before. Thank you for your content (very much).

[@BitCloud047]

Now do facial rec on these bad boys

[@spamkanta2234]

cool wifi password ;)

[@yaolet]

hey dude, take a look : blog.elementary.io/elementary-os-on-raspberry-pi/ elementary os has released a semi-official RPI build for upcoming version 6. a review perhaps?

[@jyvben1520]

veni, vidi, nova

[@allcore5172]

Horrible lag

[@ghostdog5096]

Tor.....it is free

[@viaprenestina3894]

Motioneyeos is dead. Remove the video

[@rmjormjo]

Thank your very much. And I wish you your cancer treatement is successful, as the one Scott W. Harden PhD. MD, the develper of the Sound Card ECG on KZbin..