The Best Camera Recommendations for MotionEyeOS

[Warren Binder]

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Cameras are planned to be used outside, during the day and the night. Any personal experience will be greatly appreciated!

[tompo...@gmail.com]

On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 3:00:14 AM UTC-6, Warren Binder wrote:

Quick background here - https://www.reddit.com/r/hardwareswap/comments/9rira3/usaca_h_paypal_w_diy_christmas_present_for_my_dad/

Cameras are planned to be used outside, during the day and the night. Any personal experience will be greatly appreciated!

This one is much more sensitive at night and can come close to seeing in the dark without IR.  I've got it running 1t 1920x1080.  Because it's not a PI cam, it won't work as fast network camera.  I'm using MotionEyeOS as a server and trying to figure out how to get this USB camera's photos to save on the server computer.   They save just fine on the SD card.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K7ZZR8C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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BTW, it uses M12 mount, so you can use a wide range of narrow angle and wide angle lenses.  I bought these:   https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071993GVX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Bill]

So MotionEye running on the Pi, IS the server! It's not saving pictures? Or did you mean you would like to save the pictures on a different computer, such as the one you are viewing the camera from? If it is the latter I wouldn't bother, if you are just a guy tinkering around with a Pi like I am, you probably aren't going to get that to work. This thing for the most part is undocumented. Setting up a network share is a completely different subject. I'm no IT guy by any means, but I have built many computers and had 10 networked computers in my house. So I've been around networking enough to at least have a basic knowledge of it. Do yourself a favor if you just want to get snapshots on a different computer. Setup a gmail account and have MotionEye email those pictures to you. Even that is a pain! Because Google is out to save you! They will block the login attempt from the unknown device. Which in this case is MotionEye. So you will have to change settings in the Google account itself to allow it to accept those emails. Google does NOT RECOMMEND that! It's make you more vulnerable to attacks. So I would setup a separate account just to get your pictures. I don't want to discourage you, I'm just saying this is stuff the average user isn't going to get working. It's just a matter of how many hours/days are you willing or able to put into it. There is no manual, and there probably won't ever be one. To get all the cool stuff to work, you are going to need some networking skills. Want to be able to stream to your phone? Well you are going to need to have a domain name, there are ways around that, but you would have to learn that too. Then there will probably be some port forwarding that needs to be done at your router, you need to know how to do that as well.  

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 1:07:53 PM UTC-6, tompo...@gmail.com wrote:

[Joe W]

My suggestion is not to overthink this.  I have MotionEyeOS on a dedicated Pi 3 B+, serving up 4 Hikvision wired POE IP cams around the outside of my house.  

I use the motion detection, emailing of notifications, and taking snapshots capabilities of the camera interface...not the MotionEye software.  My theory is that this takes processing load off of the little Pi.

Streaming the 4 cameras I can get about 7 - 10 fps on each cam when viewing from inside my network.  Outside, I'm getting more in the range of 2 - 4 fps.

Cheers!