Manual Download And Installation

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.
• Although not recommended, manually installing motionEye can give you more control over the directory where motionEye is installed and the way the server is started.
• All commands require root; use sudo before each command or become root using sudo -i or su.

Instructions

1. Unless you configure your machine for a remote cameras-only hub, make sure you have motion, ffmpeg and v4l-utils installed on your system. This step depends on the distro you're using.

2. Make sure you have installed a python 2.7 interpreter, pip, python-setuptools, libcurl and libjpeg.

3. Download motioneye from PyPI or directly from releases on github.

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

   • using pip:

       pip install motioneye-x.y.tar.gz
     

   • manually running setup.py:

       tar zxvf motioneye-x.y.tar.gz
       cd motioneye-x.y
       python setup.py install --prefix=/usr
     

5. Prepare the configuration directory (you can choose to use whatever configuration directory you want):

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

6. You will probably want to edit the configuration file and change various paths:

    nano /path/to/motioneye/motioneye.conf
   

   note: if you comment out all the paths in motioneye.conf, the /path/to/motioneye/ folder will be used for conf, run, log and media paths.

7. Run the motionEye server:

    meyectl startserver -c /path/to/motioneye/motioneye.conf
   

   (hit Ctrl+C to terminate)

   note: You can use the -b argument to meyectl to start the server in background, and then meyectl stopserver to stop it.