Reinstall motioneyeos on Pi4 using debian bookworm

[David Forman]

Hello! The time has come to wipeout my pi OS and do a fresh, clean install using the latest debian bookworm with pi dekstop and I will be using motioneye as a server for my 5) pi zero W cameras. I've done it before but that was a couple years ago and can't remember how to exactly do it. Thanks in advance!

[StarbaseSSD]

MotionEye doesn't work on Bookworm at all as Bookworm doesn't have Python2.7 available at all.

Pi5 doesn't support anything prior to Bookworm.

You would have to go to a Pi4 with Bullseye and follow the instructions here:

https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/wiki/Install-on-Raspbian-Bullseye

or use Debian Bullseye.

[Tom Flink]

Sorry, just realized I did not reply all to this thread so this is a repeat.

I installed Motioneye on a Pi 5 with 32-bit Bookworm yesterday and it was pretty straightforward.  I followed the instructions at the bottom of the link below (scroll down to the installation section).  Note that you do need to override the Python module installation error with the --break-system-packages option as indicated about half way down the instructions.

https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/tree/dev