How To Setup a Raspberry Pi Home Surveillance System with MotionEyeOS

In this video we'll look at How To Setup a Raspberry Pi Home Surveillance System with MotionEyeOS using a raspberry pi and a webcam.

You're going to need the following:

- Raspberry Pi (or other supported single-board computer)
- MicroSD Card (the larger the better and class 10 is preferred)
- Raspberry Pi Power Supply
- USB Webcam (higher resolution is better.)

Here are the steps:

- extract the image file from the archive
- write the image file to your SD card
- Insert the microSD card into your Raspberry Pi
- Plugin your Raspberry Pi

First Boot

When booting a fresh image installation, a few initialization steps will take place and therefore the system won't be ready for about 1-2 minutes. Please do not disconnect or reboot your board during these first two minutes!

These steps are:

- preparing the data partition on the SD card
- configuring SSH remote access
- auto-configuring any detected camera devices

Of course your motionEyeOS needs an IP address before you can communicate with it so you'll have to use the ethernet connection with DHCP enabled, unless you have preconfigured a wireless network setup.

To access it, enter the IP address of your board in the address bar of your browser.

To find the address, connect to your router (most routers can display the addresses of all connected devices) and look for a device name beginning with "meye-". Alternatively, you can use a network scanner such as the free mobile app Fing.

Use admin with no password when asked for credentials. Feel free to explore all the available configuration options.

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Follow Up Videos

Adding Cameras to motionEye:

Backing Up motionEye to Google Drive:

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[michaellee]

I've watched over dozen video related to pi and none of it worked except your tutorial!. Thank you so much for providing good video.

[SadamFlu]

Probably the first time in a long time, where I have followed a tutorial for the raspberry pi and got it working first pop. Thank you very much! this is gonna be cool to use for all sorts of things. Mainly to monitor my 3D printer in the garage.

[Mrtomix]

what are you supposed to do with the raspberry interface at 7:00 ? there is nothing else to do with it ?

[MrFlockhammer]

just came across this video and I've been looking for a small camera system for some IP cams. Thanks for all the videos!

[donmccubbin]

This video was a huge help on getting my system up and running. I'd been working on various solutions for a couple weeks and your video provided a solution in a couple hours. Much appreciated and Thanks.

[soniccinos]

Wow!!!! Didn't know about this MotionEyeOS!!! Very nice, I used to use motion + rapsbian configured from scratch, but after researching how to setup GoogleDrive account I found your videos! Good job!!!

[trevorhunterit]

Great video! Clear, concise and extremely useful! You have a great talent for teaching.

[seniorblackfox]

Thanks for a very comprehensive video... well done. I have watched many other video and none have been so complete and so clearly explained each section. Now have mine setup.
I’m trying to install a camera at an RC flying field so members can see the wind sock and who may be flying. Was hoping to stream live video but we are in a remote area and will try and attach to a someone’s local xfinitywifi router so we will not be able to do “port forwarding" to allow live stream. (can't find any other way to do it). We will just take still pictures at a 5-10 interval and send to Google Drive and then Facebook.
Thanks again

[BeyondDuctTapeFixItRight]

Your video is terrific! I found your video helpful on merit of the content and your editing. Color me an instant subscriber. I look forward to giving this a go and following along as you expand content and explore more fun and useful applications for the wonderful Raspberry Pi.

[StuartHallman]

Thanks for the great tutorial. It will really come in handy when I configure mine. This can save me some money by ditching my current web cam service. The specifics about the app were very informative. Great video.

[ladymariposa]

Thank-you. It was very clearly explained. I set up a camera a couple of weeks ago (my first Raspberry Pi project) and was hoping to add a second camera with a Pi Zero 2 W, but I didn't know how to add the wpa_supplicant.config file.

[cboyslim]

can't stop buying raspberry pis lol setting up a home surveillance system for my elderly parents. thanks for the information, brother \m/

[autumn]

Thank you. I will probably need help in installing more cameras and any other interesting features.

[somebody]

Hi, great video! Very informative, I had to use jawsper's version of the motioneyeos image due to having a raspberry pi zero 2 w with a cam rev1.3 instead, but it works great. But the problem is I'm making a dashcam and cannot have a wifi connected to the pi, so is it possible to use motioneyeos offline? Or even making its own wifi acess point would do, in fact make it more convenient. Would be glad if you could help me out!

[benitabahoya]

Hello, I did everything right but I can't get the ip address (that's you're supposed to get at 5:48). It failed to set the current
date and time so I thought maybe that was the issue, so I used another microSD card and fixed the date and time. When I tried again but it still failed and I didn't get the ip address. Everything else seems to work just fine but I'm stuck there. Any advice?

[SILLY_VANILLY]

This video was very concise and to the point. Have. Real good idea and how to set it up. Thanks.

[buddyshearer]

Thanks for this video! I have been looking for a system for my house for a while that was Raspberry based. While there are many, your presentation rose to the top. It would be great to see other various camera hooks up along with the MotionEyeOS software.

[lindsay]

Light Switch Detection is really useful actually. Set to >80% it will treat a light change (such as a sun coming out from behind a cloud) as a non-event, avoiding lots of false positives and empty pictures caused by lighting changes. Conversely, you would disable this feature if you wanted to treat light changes as motion events. For example, perhaps you have a sensor light outside your window, you would want to record when the sensor light turned on, so you set Light Switch Detection to 0%.

[seanreynolds]

Hey thanks for the video! I see in comment from two years ago you suggest to setup a Dynamic DNS and then forward the port for MotionEyes if you wanted to access the camera remotely, but said you had some other thoughts on it as well. Is this method still what’d you would recommend or do you consider it insecure or less simple than a newer found method? Thanks!

[markgiles]

Good one. Very happy with MotionEye. I would like to access the System remotely. Still working on that. And need to have the files stored on Dropbox or google drive, for security. Still tweaking the settings. But over all am happy with this. Have two cameras. Hopefully adding two more.