MotionEyeOS

These are some notes of setting up MotionEyeOS on a RaspberryPi Zero with a mounted camera module. I used a cameramodule without infrared filter so it should be better in the dark. However, this setup has difficulty performing well with higher resolutions and doesn't handle low light conditions very well.

See also:

• Webcam, cheese, motion detection

Installation

• https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki/Installation

cd /path/to/directory/
lsblk
sudo ./writeimage.sh -d /dev/sdX -i "motioneyeos-raspberrypi-dev20190223.img" -n 'WeeFee2:PassKey'

Configure Wifi for headless boot

If not done during 'writeimage.sh'.

Setup Wifi without ssh, monitor or keyboard by creating this file on the FAT boot partition.

sudo nano /boot/wpa_supplicant.conf

update_config=1
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
    scan_ssid=1
    ssid="WeeFee2"
    psk="WeeFee2-PassKey-Here"
}

Ssh

ping 192.168.1.14
ssh admin@192.168.1.14

ls -l /data/output/Camera1/
cat /data/output/Camera1/motion.txt

Require password

The default password is empty, start the web interface with the admin user and change the password for admin and user there.

Tweaks

• https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki/Tweaks

Router network share settings (Samba) in MotionEyeOS admin console:

• Type: Network share
• Server: 192.168.1.1
• SMB Protocol: 1.0
• Share name: rpicam
• User: ***
• Password ***
• Root directory: /

Nautilus file explorer location:

• smb://192.168.1.1/rpicam/