In the upper left corner of the UI you'll see a round icon with three lines, that's the setting menu. The first time you login, the password is blank so change that first. Point your browser to the IP address for the Pi, for me on my wired network, and once I configured motionEyeOS to use my WiFi dongle. There are a number of YouTube videos too, just search motionEyeOS.Ĭonfiguration is also ridiculously simple.

It refers to a dated, differently named (motionPie) version of motionEyeOS, but provides great detail if you need it. You can do this with a monitor plugged in the the Pi's HDMI port, via your router's connected devices list, or with a network scan.įor detailed installation instructions, refer to PiMyLifeUp's Build a Raspberry Pi Security Camera Network.

auto-configure any detected camera devicesĤ) Determine the IP addressed assigned to the Pi, DHCP is default.prepare the data partition on the SD card.Give it a couple minutes after first boot per the guidelines: do not disconnect or reboot your board during these first two minutes. I used build 20160828 for Raspberry Pi 2.Ģ) Write the image to SD card, insert the SD into your Pi.ģ) Plug a supported web camera in to your Pi, power up the Pi. Here's how straightforward it was in summary.ġ) Download the latest motionEyeOS image. Installation was insanely easy, I followed Calin's installation guidelines and used Win32DiskImager to write the image to the SD card. motionEye is also Calin's project and is web frontend for the motion daemon.Motion (wait for it) is a program that monitors the video signal from cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed in other words, it can detect motion.Buildroot 'is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.'.The OS is based on BuildRoot and uses motion as a backend and motionEye for the frontend. Per Calin Crisan, the project developer, motionEyeOS is a Linux distribution that turns a single-board computer into a video surveillance system. To that end I opted for a very slick, maker project, using a Raspberry Pi 2, a USB web cam, and motionEyeOS. I labored a bit on what to write about for this 10th Anniversary Edition and settled on something I have yet to cover, a physical security topic. If you want a journey through the past, October 2006 through August 2015 are available on my web site here, in PDF form, and many year's worth have been published here on the blog as well. I hope you've enjoyed the journey as much as I have, I've learned a ton and certainly hope you have too. This is the 120th consecutive edition of toolsmith every month for the last ten years, I've been proud to bring you insights and analysis on free and open source security tools. It's rather hard to believe, unimaginable even, but here we are.

Calin crisan 2016