security-pi

Motion detection for the camera module in the Raspberry PI computer. Includes a very simple web application.

Web application features:

• Start/stop motion detection.
• Browse images.
• Clean all captured images.
• Send email with the captured images.
• Single image snapshot.

Installation

• Since the project needs a web server, start by installing lighttpd and PHP5. You would also need the GD module for the jpg handling:

sudo apt-get install lighttpd

sudo apt-get install php5

sudo apt-get install php5-gd

• Since the web server user, www-data does not have access to the rasbistill which is required for capturing images. To grant access to the user type:

echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="vchiq",GROUP="video",MODE="0660"' > /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vchiq-permissions.rules
    usermod -a -G video www-data

• Copy all the project files to /var/www/security-pi (or clone it to this folder directly).
• The web server user would also need permissions to write the image files to the disk. To grant it access to the folder type:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/security-pi

• Browse to http://[your ip]/security-pi