You can also hover over the video frame for additional controls such as full screen and immediate access to stored video. When motion detection has enabled the camera, the video frame in the UI will be wrapped in orange-red. Note that there are unique URLs for snapshots, streaming and embedding. Once your camera is enabled, you'll see its feed in the UI. You'll definitely want to add a camera, and keep in mind, you can manage multiple cameras with on motionEyeOS devices, and even multiple motionEyeOS systems with one master controller.
Then immediately enable Advanced Settings. Click it, change your admin and user (viewer) passwords STAT. In the upper left corner of the UI you'll see a round icon with three lines, that's the setting menu.
The first time you login, the password is blank so change that first. Point your browser to the IP address for the Pi, for me on my wired network, and once I configured motionEyeOS to use my WiFi dongle. There are a number of YouTube videos too, just search motionEyeOS.Ĭonfiguration is also ridiculously simple. It refers to a dated, differently named (motionPie) version of motionEyeOS, but provides great detail if you need it. You can do this with a monitor plugged in the the Pi's HDMI port, via your router's connected devices list, or with a network scan.įor detailed installation instructions, refer to PiMyLifeUp's Build a Raspberry Pi Security Camera Network.
Here's how straightforward it was in summary.ġ) Download the latest motionEyeOS image. Installation was insanely easy, I followed Calin's installation guidelines and used Win32DiskImager to write the image to the SD card. motionEye is also Calin's project and is web frontend for the motion daemon.Motion (wait for it) is a program that monitors the video signal from cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed in other words, it can detect motion.Buildroot "is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.".The OS is based on BuildRoot and uses motion as a backend and motionEye for the frontend. Per Calin Crisan, the project developer, motionEyeOS is a Linux distribution that turns a single-board computer into a video surveillance system. To that end I opted for a very slick, maker project, using a Raspberry Pi 2, a USB web cam, and motionEyeOS. I labored a bit on what to write about for this 10th Anniversary Edition and settled on something I have yet to cover, a physical security topic.
If you want a journey through the past, October 2006 through August 2015 are available on my web site here, in PDF form, and many year's worth have been published here on the blog as well. I hope you've enjoyed the journey as much as I have, I've learned a ton and certainly hope you have too.
This is the 120th consecutive edition of toolsmith every month for the last ten years, I've been proud to bring you insights and analysis on free and open source security tools. Some other reports however seem to suggest that the touchscreen is similar to that of the Vaio Z Canvas 2015, and that the Vaio Z Canvas 2015 touchscreen is supported under Linux, even though it has 1024 levels of pressure, and hence is more modern technology.It's rather hard to believe, unimaginable even, but here we are. Some review reports claim that the technology is similar to that of the Surface book the Surface book touchscreen seems not yet supported under Linux. My biggest question concerns the touchscreen. Can people confirm this for the canvas as well? My understanding till now is that suspend-to-ram is not going to work, as the machine only supports "instantgo" (connected standby), which is not well supported under Linux. It is hard to get information about this, so I hope there are some people on this forum who can provide input on this.Īs the Vaio Canvas may share hardware with the flip, reports on how well Linux runs on the Canvas could be helpful as well. I am interested in purchasing a Vaio Z Flip 2016, but as I would primarily like to run Linux on it, I would prefer to understand how well Linux works on it.