motioneyeos

I was imagining something like MotionEYE OS https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneyeos/wiki Where I would download the sdram binary image and flash with Balena then boot on the Pi. Great work anyway! It was a nice opportunity to read up on Nim language too.

Check out MotioneyeOS on a raspberry pi https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneyeos https://www.adafruit.com/product/3414 As open == do things for yourself; you can easily put together a self charging 18650 battery kit or power from some other source.

I'm thinking of looking at this... https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos ...has anyone used it?

Have you looked at motionEyeOS? I'm not sure how it compares to Nest/Blink but I got along very well with it since 2015 (originally as motionPie). https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos

There's a Pi distro just for this: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos I recommend buying commercial IP cameras for outdoors.

It seems odd to automatically trust some surveillance equipment company to not spy on your video footage when they have that access. Not to say that these companies are all untrustworthy, but rather that it would be imprudent to assume trustworthiness by default. There are other solutions out there, like using a Raspberry Pi Zero [1] with some OSS[2]. The caveat here is that it requires a greater time investment from the consumer. 1: https://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2017/04/raspberry-pi-zero-... 2: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki

I kinda do this with a Raspberry Pi currently using OpenHAB on OpenHabianPi[0]. I was going to link it all up with Mycroft[1] but I havent setup my own version of Mycroft just yet. I might just buy one to support the project. Up next is security cameras using MotionEyeOS[2] and Raspberry Pi Zero W's. You really don't have to pay millions of dollars to automate your home. My thermostats use technology called Z-Wave for which there is a USB[3] adapter available on Amazon, for about $45 I turned 2 different Thermostats into Nest-like thermostats that I fully control myself, if my pi dies, the usb device still has them synched. All in my house, all in my control and managed by yours truly. [0]: https://www.openhab.org/docs/installation/openhabian.html#ra... [1]: https://mycroft.ai/ [2]: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos [3]: https://www.

There are many different kinds of cameras for the RasPi - some have IR illumination and/or filters removed, others don't. Some allow interchangeable lens, others are "fixed". Quality can vary depending on the camera. I have a RasPi Zero W camera at my home (monitoring my front door and patio) that runs MotionEyeOS: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos The camera is a tiny thing but 5 MP and color; quality has been very good in my opinion. Better than anything I could have bought at that price point (and certainly less intrusive - so many IP cameras require "cloud services" or something like that to work). Total cost for everything I used was well under $50.00 USD. A cheaper option, which I am considering playing around with - but not as easy to set up - is this nice little module based around the ESP32: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3

Outside of off the cuff experiments, most of my Pis are provisioned as MotionEyeOS[0] security cams. Each client can be linked into a central "server" so you can view them all at once, and lots of nice config options for storing or sending image and video either continuously or based on motion. I have the streaming set up so I can peek in from anywhere using VLC on my phone. [0] https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki

So would you go with something like https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki with a Pi+camera+enclosure? What hardware do you recommend?

You may be interested in this: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos > motionEyeOS is a Linux distribution that turns your single board computer into a video surveillance system.

I've been using MotionEyeOS for several months now. I setup a a couple of Pi3's with some cheap Logitech USB webcams. Works great from inside the house - I used velcro to tape the cameras pointing out from various windows around the house and in the garage. https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos I am looking for something that will work outside and has night vision though.

I've had success with MotionEyeOS [0] on a Raspberry Pi. It used to be that a Pi ($35) plus the camera module ($25) meant ~$60 per cam but now that the Zero W [1] is out you can do Pi ($10) plus camera module ($25) plus the nifty official case that nicely accommodates a camera ($5) for ~$40. MotionEye let's you store images or video locally on the Pi or has multiple cloud destinations available (Drive, Dropbox, your own custom FTP node). An email notification + dropping the files into Google Drive is stupid simple to set up. Plus you can configure just about everything from motion sensitivity to frame rate, etc. Most difficult setup is live stream which means you would need to VPN into your home network; certainly not impossible but still not turnkey simple. If there is a better open source solution for the Pi, I'd love to hear about it.