Install On Arch

DEPRECATED

• Below instructions are for the old Python 2 based version of motionEye.
• Please refer to our new install instructions for the new Python 3 based version: https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye#installation
• Please open an issue at https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/issues if you can update below instructions.

Before Proceeding

• Read the general Installation page first.
• These instructions apply to Arch Linux. They may work for other Arch-based distributions but the procedure hasn't been tested.
• All commands require root; use sudo before each command or become root using su -i.
• On a Raspberry Pi, you might need to add /opt/vc/bin to your PATH, in e.g. /etc/environment.
• Tested with archlinux-2021.12.01-x86_64.iso install in VBox Guest (4CPU, 4GB, 48GB) 27 Dec 2021

Instructions

1. Install ffmpeg and v4l-utils:

    pacman -S motion ffmpeg v4l-utils lsb-release python2 curl
   

2. Install pip2:

    curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py
   
    python2 get-pip.py
   

3. Install the dependencies from the repositories:

    pacman -S base-devel mime-types
   

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

    pip2 install motioneye
   

5. Prepare the configuration directory:

    mkdir -p /etc/motioneye
    cp /usr/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf
   

6. Prepare the media directory:

    mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye
   

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

    cp /usr/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.systemd-unit /etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service
    systemctl daemon-reload
    systemctl enable motioneye
    systemctl start motioneye
   

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

    pip2 install motioneye --upgrade
    systemctl restart motioneye