I just wanted to say that this channel was an insta-sub the moment I realized you had the instructions written on your blog. I'll make sure to bring traffic to your RU-vid channel, thank you so very much for making the text version!!!!
Thank you for another video. When I first tried motion (it was 7 or 8 years ago) with a pair of usb webcams I was quite impressed with its functionality. So I'm glad the project is still alive.
HI, i have some IP cameras, i have the rstp ling, username and password but when i try add the camera to motioneye the "camera" list is empty (your have 2 lines TCP and UDP). I'm in Home Assistant. Any help is welcome.
Hey Irwin, do exactly as I'm describing in the video. You can also check my article if it is more clear to you there. Here is a link 👉 peyanski.com/motioneye-is-it-the-ultimate-nvr/
Здравей! Правиш страхотни видеа, за което много благодаря. Помогнали са ми - не един път. Единственото което не ми харесва е постоянното прекъсване за да се абонираме за канала ти. Наясно съм, че по този начин правиш пари и контента ти достига до повече хора, но когато ми излиза на всяко видео не ме стимулира да се абонирам, а точно обратното. Продължавай да правиш добри видеа и всичко ще си дойде на мястото. Хората които ги харесват, ще се абонират. Успехи !! :)
Благодаря ти Ивайло! Съжалявам, че напомнянето за абониране ти е досадно. Не го правя за пари, защото никой не плаща за брой абонати, а защото от YT статистиката излиза, че само около 13% от хората, които гледат видеата ми са абонирани за канала. Много хора не се сещат за това докато гледат и подканите са за тях. За вече абонираните се стремя да го правя различно и забавно, за да не дразни (виж последните ми видеа за пример). Сам се сещаш, че не мога да угодя на всички. Надявам се да съм успял да го обясня правилно. Приятен ден!
Huge thanks! for this...unlike my Samsung Integration I got this on my first try... Very cool being able to see my security cameras on my ipad anywhere on the planet (that is if we could travel anywhere) Your videos are the best on youtube explaining how to fiddle with HASS... One question, I'm running this on a Pi4. It boots fast (~10 seconds) and runs with no problems... when do I move to a virtual machine or should I try to run in Docker on my Synology?
Thank you for the great video, very clear and informative. Can you please tell me if you have run motioneye on a raspberry Pi 3 with HA installed too. Does it work fine with 2-3 camera or that it too much for it to take?
Yes, you need presence detection for that. The easiest way is to use Home Assistant companion app for iOS - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Gr_f4W1IRts.html or Android - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pTa-SCWXMSQ.html. The other options are to use HA with raspberry pi zero W and room assistant - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QbOez63XlFs.html or Monitor - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--uRq4L6bxrI.html for more granular room detection. One more option is to integrate your router with HA if you happen to have UniFi router use this - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SAYKkcQksmY.html
I'm really uniformed on security cameras, friends of mine use Ring which is about 4x more expensive than some of the basic wifi cameras that I can buy online. Ring is convenient because it comes with its own app but how do I know what app applies to the cheaper models?
Hi, thanks for all your great video's. I am struggling with the installation of the add-on "motioneye" in home assistant. When adding the url to the repositories add on link it tells me always invalid repositories link. Any idea how I can add this repositories add-on? Found the problem! All works!
Thx man, always interesting videos. Current setup can barely handle home assistant. What are you currently using to run everything covered in your videos? Would a new ryzen 5 with 32gig RAM be enough for HA, nvr, backup, some containers, some vms? Going to build a new server, but what is enough?
It depends of the VMs and containers :) But there is a big chance to be enough :) I'm testing with an old AMD Athlon 4 core processor and 10GB RAM, but I have only HA, NR, Mosquitto and MotionEye at the moment on it and the utilisation is around 20-30%
Is there anyway to have MotionEye get motion detection notifications from IP cameras themselves? I have some Dahua IP cams that have inbuilt motion detection and sends ONVIF events. It seems a waste of CPU power to have MotionEye do the motion detection when my cameras already do it.
You can try add the camera to Home Assistant using ONVIF as I'm showing here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PHuq4oQuyEk.html and use the motion sensor from there if it's working fine.
Thanks for your awesome video! One step is not clear to me. How do I access my motion eye os on rpi4 from outside my apartment? It could be a stupid question, but could you please explain again? Thanks in advance, awesome work
The best ways is to use a VPN. Check either of these videos of mine for detailed instructions - ZeroTier ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lFmeF5xoAPI.html or WireGuard ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-df9xjMsNVaI.html
Fantastic! Worked first time. I've used my local IP If I use Nabu Casa and want to receive alerts away from home will I need to put in another address?
Which is the best among shinobi, zone minder, motion eye, xeoma. Gonna run them along openmediavault on my raspberry Pi4 (4gb) and use it to record vids of 4 IP cam.
Thanks for your tutorial, very informative. Only the part where motioneye is shown in home assistant lovelace is missing. How can you show the camera recording in Lovelace? What are the options?
The motionEye addon no longer accepts rtsp URLs in the URL field when adding a Camera. I've no idea why, the rtsp URL I'm using opens fine in VLC network stream. EDIT: It accepted the URL once I extracted the username and password from my RTSP URL, and entered it into the username and password fields. Basically don't put the credentials inside the URL. 🤦♂
Hi Kiril Love your content. I wanted to ask you if it‘s possible to install and run both Home Assistant & Motioneyeos on the same Pi Zero? Thank you in advance
I suggest to try the opposite variant to install the Home Assistant OS and to add motionEye as home assistant add-on. But I'm not quite sure about the performance in either way. Grab at least raspberry pi 3 if pi zero can't handle this load. Good luck
Hello, I have a Bosch DinionNBN-498-11P camera and I can not add this camera. MotionEye don't regonized the camera. What I doing wrong ? Can you help me whit a solution ?
Excellent video! In order to connect a ESP32-CAM in Home Assistant, do you recommend me installing it directly or with motionEye ? Thank you very much Kiril
@@vidadeingeniero3350 are you saying you didn't use Motioneye at all? are you just using home Assistant? how are you recording the video? if not how exactly did you add the camera to motion eye? I'm stuck on this part, I have home assistant with motioneye I added in one home assistant ESP 32 camera. I can't for the life of me figure out how to add that camera to motion eye. in the end I want to be able to detect motion from the PIR sensor on the ESP32 cam start recording a video and save it to either the SD card or a hard drive on home assistant and notify me through email that there's been movement.
I have been looking at a few different NVR solutions, primarily software based. I have been trying to work out which is best and I have been looking between ZoneMinder, motionEye and Blue Iris. How does motionEye compare to Blue Iris? I have not found many comparisons between Blue Iris and motionEye. A lot of reviews point to Blue Iris being best, but it is very resource hungry.
I don’t know that answer. The best answer will be to try them all and decide for yourself. I’m going to do exactly that with exactly these three software NVRs and I will probably make videos about them but I don’t know when exactly this will happen. So I’m in kind of the same boat as you 😉
@@KPeyanski I am having a play with MotionEye. Do you know if MotionEye has function to use two network cards? I'd like to keep my cameras on their own network separate from my main LAN.
@@KPeyanski I have been playing with Blue Iris lately, it certainly has a lot of features. A lot that a home user may not use. I like that the clips are available directly in the interface and it is an all in one solution, but it is resource hungry, likely because it is based on Windows. I think I like it better than MotionEye for ease of use and the interface is definitely more polished. It makes MotionEye look a little amateur, but Blue Iris does cost.
@@harshitkaushik5994 I settled on a Blue Iris in the end. I built a Windows Virtual Machine and just art it up there. The others just didn't quite have the se polish. This won't running anything low powered though as it is Windows only and can be resource hungry when you get a few cameras.
HI, thanks for the video (this one and all the others!!!) I installed MotionEye to HA and now I want to add a SSD drive to Raspberry Pi4 USB to save my video surveillance videos. How can I do that. thanks again Alex
I didn’t compare them but in theory motionEyeOS should perform slightly better because it doesn’t rely on additional software. But the cons is that you can’t use the device for almost nothing else.
Hello. Can I add a Chinese camera? I have 3 of those, one using imou app, one eyepluss app and third one using eyecloud app and all of these 3 cams I can't find streaming url. Can you help me?
@@KPeyanski Thanks! So I set up the integration, and I can see in the remote camera's webui a long string is added under webhook. But from there I don't know how to make automations happen. Do I just copy paste that string into a webhook type automation trigger in HA?
I also tried creating an automation in HA, which gives a unique webhook, then pasted that onto the end like: ...api/webhook/automation-name+unique-id But that doesn't seem to work either. I'll have to try again later
Ok that actually worked! A little confusing with the integration creating its own webhooks with a bunch of extra data in every push that neither the integration or HA seems to do use in any way. The "override unknown webhooks" setting also had me chasing my tail for a minute
I get the following error when I copy/paste the code: missed comma between flow collection entries at line 3, column 1: - alias: Receive Telegram when M ... ^ Please help
if you want to use your pi for something else along with the motionEye don't use the OS. If you want a dedicated pi for motionEye, then stick with the OS. It depends what do you want.
I'm following all steps but after the ones to add camera (tested both TCP and UDP) I see only a grey screen that say "unable to open video device". Have you any ideas?
Double check your link and credentials. Also try to open the stream with VLC player for example. If it's not working with the VLC as well then you definitely have some issue with your link or credentials or both
Hello, can you please clarify I want to use ESP32 cams with pi Motion eye is stand alone and a plugin for home assistant, & home assistant is also standalone and have home assistant firmware for the peripherals Then why one will need motion eye? Can't home assistant do it alone?
Yes, you can, but you will miss some of the features that software NVRs like motionEye provides. If that is not a problem and they are not needed you can stay with HA only.
Писал на гитхабе motion, чтобы аудио из потока не удаляли при записи с IP камер. Ответили что не приоритетная задача и пишите аудио другими методами. Поэтому интересно, MotionEye звук писать умеет?
Hello, how could I extend the lenght of the video recording?. I have a maximum of 60 secs after motion is detected,but it's recording only around 12 to 20 secs.
double check that curl is installed (if you are on windows you have to download this first - just google for it) also there is no space between - and d! It is curl -d ...
At 5:45 you get a link, but don’t say where to find that link. I am not able to get motioneye to find my camera so I think it’s this information I’m missing.
after i add my ip cameras i get a gray screen and video does not appear, i have 9 cameras 3 different brands all of wich are already connected to my physical NVR so i know they work. but i only get a gray screen when i add them. i was only interested in adding them here so i could use the motion sensors for automation's like turning on lights when motion is detected
Are you adding the main or the sub stream? Is it possible that you are adding the main stream that could be limited to 1 device at a time. Try with the substream with any of the cameras
@@KPeyanski I followed your tutorial I didn't see that option in the video, and motion eye doesn't give me a choice of main or sub stream. Where do I choose the stream? Please help
Hi Just discovered your videos. I have a couple of beginner standard questions. I have motioneye installed on a separate RPi to my HA RPi. I have added the motioneye add-on to HA and have gone to the user interface. I assume I have to add the V4L2 camera but I can't work out how you get that URL under camera type or how you jump to the new page at 5.48. My HA screen seems to show a camera installed but says unable to open video device. Any help you can offer would be great and thanks for the video.
Hi there on 5:48 I jump to another virtual desktop. This feature is embedded in macOS. To add a camera you have to check with your camera manufacturer what method is supported. One of the most preferred is RTSP protocol. If your camera is supporting that you will have no problems adding it
Yes, just disable the video recording from the motionEye settings. For the second question - when you add a camera in MotionEye, it automatically creates several URLs that you can use for notification or embedding purposes
@@KPeyanski It´s disabled the hole section...but doing some tests I realize that if the streaming is disabled too, the CPU usage drops a lot....I´ll have to play a bit to see if I can tune again
@@KPeyanski yeah just the standard camera. I initially installed it on docker for some reason it wasnt working for me. I got it going now tho not sure what the problem was
are you sure that your camera is working and configured correctly? Can you execute in terminal - vcgencmd get_camera you should receive something similar: supported = 1 detected = 1
Probably your card got corrupted due to intensive writing or age or both. It happens to me multiple times and most probably it has nothing to do with motionEye in your case. Try to find some low formatting tools in google and if they didn't help just buy another SD card.
Why do you use SMB from a mac to access linux files? install sshfs and do sshfs user@host:/path mountpoint Just upload your public ssh-key to motioneye and start ssh-keyserver first so you don't need password.
@@KPeyanski sshfs also encrypt and compress the trafic and you can use it to any machine you can ssh to. For example when I travel with just my laptop with a tiny SSD, I mount a 4TB filesystem from home and it work as a local disk in a secure way, just a bit slower depending on the network I can find but there is some caching.
I'm not sure that I can understand your question well. You can set a username & pass and nobody will spy on it. You can also set up a VPN so you could access your local motionEye installation from around the world
NOT working, boot start wpa suplicant search this longtime, and then failed and closed all and shutdown and start all same again forewer. i has add ssid and paswrd. and TH country code, but say start wpa suplicant failed (prcmfmac) config wireles no link. config wired no device. stopping all and shutr wown. and no found link. wifi and then no have link lan. zero not have lan but wifi need use, how this can make working,
Check my article. I’m explaining it there - peyanski.com/motioneye-is-it-the-ultimate-nvr/#Creating_a_Home_Assistant_Automation_and_configuring_MotionEye_web_hook
@@KPeyanski got them all on sale over time add more and more works pretty well. pretty much set and forget , have one of the cameras send my a pic when doorbell is pressed , and cast view on google hub, but thats not so good
What do you need audio for? I personally haven't found a need for audio, besides a video doorbell. In some countries (such as the UK) it's actually illegal to record audio from CCTV cameras.
Sorry but the title is misleading. This is NOT a COMPLETE tutorial as from the outset, there is software installed on the Pi. What is it? What versions is this compatible with? Please, if you are going to say COMPLETE tutorial - specify the pre requisites before this is useful. I get very frustrated searching through so-called tutorials which claim to be complete and never are - its FALSE ADVERTISING!