Compatibility with rotating cameras?

[Do Po]

Hello,

Does motioneye support so-called 360 degrees cameras capable of rotating?

If yes, can you tell me how to select compatible cameras? 

Regards,

D.

[StarbaseSSD]

They are called PTZ cameras. Pan, Tilt, Zoom. On the video side, yes, they are compatible with many. Controlling the PTZ functions, they can be, there are buttons within motionEye/motionEyeOS. There are instructions on how to set them up here:

https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneyeos/wiki/Action-Buttons

but the setup is left up to the end user as there are so many different cameras, and each has a different method of control via different commands.

I may suggest my cameras when people ask, but I don't have suggestions for PTZ, even though I have 5 (3 d-link & 2 foscam), as I use the web interfaces that come with the camera, and I don't use the action buttons. I seldom need to move them around.

[Do Po]

Thanks a lot for this reply. I'm a newbie here, trying to set up a security system I understand and control.

The sense of my question was the following: Assuming that MotionEye can do detection of humans and pets in the captured video, I hoped it can follow them. I think I need to further read the documentation.

D.

[StarbaseSSD]

motionEye/motionEyeOS does not detect people or animals. It only detects changes in pixels. It has no face or pet recognition capabilities. It would not be able to send a PTZ camera commands to follow something.