Installing Motioneye on Raspbian-Stretch

[wally333]

Just did it again on a Pi2 with the original  PiCamera and a WiPi USB WiFi dongle.

Here are the steps in the order I did them, logged in as user pi to install  Motioneye on Raspbian-Stretch:

//Get the latest Raspbian stretch upgrades:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

// add v4l2 driver for picamera, you can skip this if only using USB webcams or netcams

sudo nano /etc/modules

// add, after i2c-dev:

bcm2835-v4l2

// extra packages from the standard repos:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libmariadbclient18 libpq5 mysql-common ffmpeg

// get and install pre-built motion package for stretch:

wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/download/release-4.0.1/pi_stretch_motion_4.0.1-1_armhf.deb

sudo dpkg -i pi_stretch_motion_4.0.1-1_armhf.deb

// install motioneye

sudo pip install motioneye

// initial setup of config files and motioneye deamon:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/motioneye

sudo cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye

sudo cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.systemd-unit-local /etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

sudo systemctl enable motioneye

sudo systemctl start motioneye

// restart the system

sudo reboot

Connect your browser to port 8765, use Chromium on the Pi as localhost:8765 or on a different machine on your local network yourPi_IP:8765

My router automatically adds dhcp clients to its caching DNS so I can use the Pi2 hostname to connect:  picam:8765

Configure to suit.

Hope this helps someone.

My reason for doing this is to see if a different WiFi subsystem can stay up for 24/7 usage. The PiZero-W (and Pi3) apparently can't with current firmware for the chip used, see:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1342

If it works, next week I'll disable the PiZero-W WiFi and try the WiPi dongle with it, not optimum solution, but I've other plans for the Pi2 using a wired connection.   I got the PiZero-W to use with either something like Motioneye or some of my own code to capture images on command After trying Motioneyeos on the Pi2 with a wired connection.

[Pennywise Clowno]

It most certainly helped me setting up a raspberry pi 3 with noir filter cam. Thanks a lot! You're a life saver. I've been fiddling around for 2 evenings now without getting it to work until I stumbled upon your post.

[Tia]

That helped a lot. 

This line:

wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/download/release-4.0.1/pi_stretch_motion_4.0.1-1_armhf.deb

is accessed only with administrator rights, therefore for it to work it should be:

sudo wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/download/release-4.0.1/pi_stretch_motion_4.0.1-1_armhf.deb

[Ro Ro]

parfait merci pour ce tutaux simple et efficace ;) 
débutant avec raspian  cela ma beaucoup aider 
Merci 

thanks you 

[Danny Martin]

Thanks for your information, I got this to work with no problem, had almost given up on the installation instructions MotionEye website.

[nagj...@gmail.com]

Followed the below steps and was able to install on raspbian stretch however I cant login to http://myraspiip:8765, ,may i know the default username and password for this.

Thanks

Jorge

On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 1:48:18 AM UTC+4, wally333 wrote:

[Per Tore Molvær]

Awesome! This was just what I needed! All this time trying to install Motion and I stumble into this solution. Thank you!!

The default password for Motioneye on your first login is Admin with blank password.

However, after a couple of minutes, the camera went into grey again, and says "Unable to open video device" 

What could be the reason for this, is there any sleepmode or something?

[blindeyeseesall]

I've done this again and as of today I get the following error when running "sudo pip install motioneye":  "The headers or library files could not be found for jpeg, a required dependency when compiling Pillow from source."  Pillow fails to build.  This can be resolved by adding 

libjpeg-dev to the list of pre-reqs (updated line below) or "sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev" if you are getting this particular error.

 

// extra packages from the standard repos:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libmariadbclient18 libpq5 mysql-common ffmpeg libjpeg-dev

[Ian Tindale]

I've been following these instructions over and over and over for the past few months, and each time it doesn't accept my password, no matter how many times I try.

[Alan McKay]

Password at what point?