rpi-motion-surveillance

Summary

A basic Motion based Raspberry Pi Surveillance system.

I got tired of running the commands found in install_rpi_surveillance.sh whenever I setup a new Raspberry Pi based surveillance system so I put this little project together to make things a little easier. This is a very basic configuration of Motion but it may be great place for you to start if you're interested in building your own surveillance system.

Requirements

• A Raspberry Pi 3 to 3b+
• A Raspberry Pi compatible camera that is plugged in
• Python 3 installed (should be installed by default in Raspbian Jessie or Stretch)
• Script must be ran as the pi user

Features

• An easy to use setup/installation script
• A motion detection script that sends you a message via email when motion is detected
• A script that removes the days recorded images and installs itself to crontab

Getting started

1. Clone the repo into your home directory:
   sudo git clone https://github.com/Xaxis/rpisurveillance.git

2. Update the following lines in motion_detected.py to match your sending email addresses credentials and your target email address.

   sender = 'source@gmail.com'
   gmail_password = 'yourpassword!'
   recipients = ['target@gmail.com']

3. Run install the install script from within the rpisurveillance directory:
   cd rpisurveillance
chmod 777 install_rpi_surveillance.sh
sudo ./install_rpi_surveillance.sh

4. That's all! Your motion detection system should work after your next reboot. If you want to test your setup before rebooting you can run:
   sudo motion -s -c /home/.motion/motion.conf

Author

Wil Neeley ( twitter / linkedin )