osss

Open Source Surveillance and Security - a set of scripts/configs and a web front-end to turn a Raspberry Pi into a motion-detecting security camera

What is this?

Basically this will turn your Raspberry Pi + Raspberry Pi camera module into a web-accessible, recording, motion-detecting, live-streaming security and surveillance camera.

For more info, check out my talk about it at SCaLE 2014. (link coming as soon as I've had a chance to put up the slides/video.)

How to set this up?

Just run install.sh, it will guide you through the whole shebang. Easy peasy.

Some Extra Stuff

I've included a few extra scripts in the extras directory, those are:

• network_info.sh - prints out your Pi's network information (IP and MAC addresses.)
• setup_smb.sh - sets up a Samba (SMB, CIFS) mount point, handy for archiving older recordings off of the Pi (to save room on your SD card.)
• setup_wifi.sh - a script that helps you set up a WiFi connection. (requires two data files that are also in this directory, interfaces.wifi and wpa_supplicant.conf.)
• sync_osss_files.sh - a script that uses rsync to periodically copy all recordings to another directory (by default, an SMB mount.) Useful for archiving older recordings so that they don't take up your Pi's precious SD card space.

Need More Info?

If you need more info, are having a problem, or just have a question, please feel free to drop me an e-mail at dburr [at] vctlabs [dot] com.

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