techantidote/motion repository overview

⁠Motion

-This a docker image that is build to detect motion and record the footage.

-This image is based on Raspberry pi zero W (arm6l arch).

-This has been tested to work with Logitech C170 USB webcam.

-This is a beta version of the project and many more tweaks to be made.

⁠Requirements

• Raspberry Pi Zero W [Raspberry Pi or Raspberry Pi 3 also should ideally work.]

• Docker 18.06.1-ce installed on Pi Zero.

• USB webcam.

• Sufficient disk space left on your SD to store the footage.

• Lots of patience :)

⁠Setting up your Raspberry PI:

-On your raspberry pi, create a folder to store the footage. Example, name it as surv.

mkdir ~/surv

-Plug in your USB webcam to your Raspberry PI Zero, and then run the following to verify that it is detected.

lsusb
dmesg

-You should ideally see the USB webcam in the dmesg logs and in the lsusb outputs.

To run the docker container, run the following:

docker run -dit --net=host --privileged -v /dev/video0:/dev/video0 -v ~/surv:/footage --name watchtower techantidote/motion motion -n

• To view the live stream, open a browser and go to:

http://ip-of-your-pi:8081

⁠Alternative method: (Suited while testing)

-If you are testing the configuration, you can try the following:

docker run -dit --net=host --privileged -v /dev/video0:/dev/video0 -v ~/surv:/footage --name watchtower techantidote/motion

Now from inside the container, you can make changes to your configuration files and then start the motion service manually using the following:

service motion start

You can make now changes on the fly and then restart the motion service:

service motion restart

⁠Config Files

I have already added the configuration files in the docker image. If you need to tweak the setting, below are the two configuration files:

/etc/motion/motion.conf
/etc/default/motion

⁠Log Files:

Log File Location: /var/log/motion/logs

-If you would to view the log files real time, you run the following:

docker exec -it watchtower tail -f /var/log/motion/logs

⁠Credits/References:

• Thanks to motion-project⁠

• Base image used for building the image => resin/rpi-raspbian:stretch

• Accessing camera inside a container⁠

⁠Contribute to this project.

If you would like to contribute to this project, feel free to reach out to me at twitter.

https://twitter.com/techantidote⁠

⁠GitHub Page

https://gitlab.com/techantidote⁠