MotioneyeOS

MotioneyeOS turns the Raspberry Pi into a video surveillance system. I’ve been playing around with two of these setups just for fun.  I have one running a duel camera setup on a Raspberry Pi3 in the front of my place. I just have it in a simple 3D printed housing I found online with a Pi NoIR Camera V2 propped up in a front window.

It also has a Day/Night Vision dome camera attached to it too. This one is pointed at my front step to keep an eye on my Amazon deliveries. (Not that I’ve ever had a problem.)

I have another setup watching my back door that runs off a Pi Zero W. The PI0’s are even smaller than the RPi’s and still have a lot of the same features plus they are only $10.

I put this one in another simple 3D printed housing that I designed.

The camera and board both go in the housing making it very compact.

Here it is ready to go. The nut in the bottom is to attach it to a tripod.

Here it is attached to a simple tripod for testing.

Everything works off of wifi but I didn’t want to drill any holes in the house to run power so I just used a light bulb adapter and plugged it into the outside light fixture.

I then painted the dome white so you can’t even tell it’s a camera.

If you look close you can see the window I left unpainted for the camera though.  I have the camera set up to write to an external hard drive in the house so even if the camera were stolen or destroyed I still have the footage.

Here’s what the view looks like from within the Motioneye GUI.  (I can keep an eye on our friendly neighbor cat that I build an insulated shelter for.)

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