What is motionEye?

motionEye is an online interface for the software motion, a video surveillance program with motion detection.

Check out the wiki for more details. Changelog is available on the releases page.

From version 0.43, motionEye is multilingual:

You can contribute to translations on Weblate.

Installation

These install instructions are constantly tested via CI/CD pipeline on Debian Bullseye and Ubuntu Focal.

1. Install Python 3.7 or later and build dependencies

   Here the commands for APT-based Linux distributions are given.

   On 32-bit ARMv6 and ARMv7 systems:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt --no-install-recommends install ca-certificates curl python3 python3-distutils

   On all other architectures additional development headers are required:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt --no-install-recommends install ca-certificates curl python3 python3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev gcc libssl-dev

2. Install the Python package manager pip

   curl -sSfO 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py'
   sudo python3 get-pip.py
   rm get-pip.py

   On 32-bit ARMv6 and ARMv7 systems, additionally configure pip to use pre-compiled wheels from piwheels:

   printf '%b' '[global]\nextra-index-url=https://www.piwheels.org/simple/\n' | sudo tee /etc/pip.conf > /dev/null

3. Install and setup motionEye

   sudo python3 -m pip install 'https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/archive/dev.tar.gz'
   sudo motioneye_init

   NB: motioneye_init currently assumes either an APT- or RPM-based distribution with systemd as init system. For a manual setup, config and service files can be found here: https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/tree/dev/motioneye/extra

Upgrade

sudo systemctl stop motioneye
sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall --no-deps 'https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/archive/dev.tar.gz'
sudo systemctl start motioneye