MotionEyeOS

These are some notes of setting up MotionEyeOS on a RaspberryPi Zero with a mounted camera module. I used a camera module 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
• Calculation of sunrise and sunset

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

Git webpage

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

Network File Storage

The router (192.168.1.1) has network share capability with Samba, settings 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/

Settings for better picture with low light conditions

Source:

• https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/issues/953

These settings can be added In the extra motion settings box or in the configuration file. Settings that are controlled by MotionEye will be overwritten and disappear.

Note:

• Higher framerates will make the picture darker
• With daylight these settings may lead to overexposure
• Moving objects may be blurred beyond recognition

Example 1:

 mmalcam_control_params -ex night

Example 2:

 mmalcam_control_params -ex sports -ev 25 --shutter 256000
 auto_brightness on
 hue 0
 saturation 5
 brightness 255
 contrast 1

These settings can also be modified in the configuration file (thread-1.conf for Camera 1):

nano /data/etc/thread-1.conf

Writable root or boot partitions

Whenever you need to change something on either root or boot partitions, run the following commands to make them writable:

ssh admin@192.168.1.14

Root:

mount -o remount,rw /

Boot:

mount -o remount,rw /boot