Install Motioneye in Ubuntu 20.04/Linux mint 20.02

What is Motioneye?
motionEye is a web-based frontend for motion, a CCTV solution for Linux

What is Motion?
Motion is a nice lightweight, yet capable application for operating surveillance cameras on Linux

How to Install Motioneye

1. sudo apt-get install ssh curl motion ffmpeg v4l-utils -y

2. reboot

3. Install the python 2.7 and pip2

4. sudo apt-get install python2 -y

5. curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py

6. sudo python2 get-pip.py

    There will be a warning that python 2.7 and pip2 are outdated and will not be updated
    This is normal and to be expected, as Python 2.7 is beyond EOL, as is pip2.
    When motionEye is updated to Python3, these messages will go away.

Install all prerequisites

1. sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libzbar-dev libzbar0 -y

2. sudo apt-get install python2-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev -y

3. sudo apt-get install python-pil -y

    Installing motioneye, which will automatically pull Python dependencies (tornado, jinja2, pillow and pycurl):

Install Motioneye

1. sudo pip2 install motioneye

Configuring Motionye

1. Prepare the configuration directory

sudo mkdir -p /etc/motioneye 

sudo cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf

2. Prepare the media directory:

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye

3. Add an init script, configure it to run at startup and start the motionEye server:

sudo cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.systemd-unit-local /etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service

4. sudo systemctl daemon-reload

5. sudo systemctl enable motioneye

6. sudo systemctl start motioneye

To upgrade to the newest version of motionEye, just issue:

1. pip2 install motioneye --upgrade

2. systemctl restart motioneye

Saving Motioneye Video's to a Network Share

1. Mounting samba share on boot

sudo apt install samba cifs-utils

sudo nano /etc/fstab

2. Add this line to the bottom of the file

//192.168.0.102/private /mnt/samba-private cifs x-systemd.automount,_netdev,credentials=/etc/samba-credential.conf 0 0

File should look like this

fstab

 

3. Create the samba-credential.conf File

nano samba-credential.conf

username=your_username

password=your_password

domain=workgroup

File Should look like this..

samba-credential.conf

4. Change ownership of the file

sudo chmod 0600 ~/samba-credential.conf

5. reboot

Go to  http://your_Ip:8765

    default username: admin

    no password

You'r All Done. Enjoy you'r new CCTV Solution..!!