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What is motionEye?
motionEye is an online interface for the software motion, a video surveillance program with motion detection.
Check out the wiki for more details. Changelog is available on the releases page.
From version 0.43, motionEye is multilingual:
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You can contribute to translations on Weblate.
Installation
These install instructions are constantly tested via CI/CD pipeline on Debian Bullseye and Ubuntu Focal.
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Install Python 3.7 or later and build dependencies
Here the commands for APT-based Linux distributions are given.
On 32-bit ARMv6 and ARMv7 systems, thanks to piwheels, no development headers are required:
sudo apt update sudo apt --no-install-recommends install ca-certificates curl python3 python3-distutils
On all other architectures additional development headers are required:
sudo apt update sudo apt --no-install-recommends install ca-certificates curl python3 python3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev gcc libssl-dev
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Install the Python package manager
pip
curl -sSfO 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py' sudo python3 get-pip.py rm get-pip.py
On recent Debian (Bookworm ant later) and Ubuntu (Lunar and later) versions, the
libpython3.*-stdlib
package ships a file/usr/lib/python3.*/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED
, which prevents the installation of Python modules outside ofvenv
environments. motionEye however has a small number of dependencies with no strict version requirements and hence is very unlikely to break any Python package you might have installed via APT. To bypass this block, addbreak-system-packages=true
to the[global]
section of yourpip.conf
:grep -q '\[global\]' /etc/pip.conf 2> /dev/null || printf '%b' '[global]\n' | sudo tee -a /etc/pip.conf > /dev/null sudo sed -i '/^\[global\]/a\break-system-packages=true' /etc/pip.conf
On 32-bit ARMv6 and ARMv7 systems, additionally configure
pip
to use pre-compiled wheels from piwheels:grep -q '\[global\]' /etc/pip.conf 2> /dev/null || printf '%b' '[global]\n' | sudo tee -a /etc/pip.conf > /dev/null sudo sed -i '/^\[global\]/a\extra-index-url=https://www.piwheels.org/simple/' /etc/pip.conf
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Install and setup motionEye
sudo python3 -m pip install --pre motioneye sudo motioneye_init
NB:
motioneye_init
currently assumes either an APT- or RPM-based distribution withsystemd
as init system. For a manual setup, config and service files can be found here: https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/tree/dev/motioneye/extra
Upgrade
sudo systemctl stop motioneye
sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade --pre motioneye
sudo systemctl start motioneye