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motioneyeos

A Video Surveillance OS For Single-board Computers

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What it is

A Video Surveillance OS For Single-board Computers

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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

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This week on Hacker News

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year16 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-01-18 17:58:27 UTC to 2024-01-03 18:57:05 UTC.

012342016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

4 sources
giancarlostoro·Sep 17, 2019
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.
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amazon.com/Aeotec-Z-Stick-Z-Wave-create-gateway/... Final thought: If I ever get Mycroft setup, I'd essentially have a robot in my home running off a Raspberry Pi. He wouldn't move (wouldn't need him to) but he would do whatever I wish. For now openHAB has a UI for me. Edit: Forgot to mention that openHAB is also scriptable, and even has a bit of IFTTT type of capacity internally.
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cr0sh·Aug 9, 2019
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
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2964004777.html There are a few IP camera projects and github repos out there, but nothing anywhere near as polished as MotionEyeOS, yet.
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