nikdavis/home-capture-project

Raspberry pi setup instructions

For cameras using the camera interface, you need to run raspi-config and enable the camera interface. You will also need to ensure the correct driver is loaded: sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2 and add the driver name to the end of /etc/modules to ensure it's loaded on subsequent boots.

Packages needed to run motion & mysql:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install motion
sudo apt-get install mysql
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
sudo apt-get install libmysql++-dev

You'll need to create a user, DB, and tables (see sql files) and ensure the information is in your motion.conf (to come soon).

E.g. cron setup (run crontab -e as root and paste new line):

1/10 * * * * . /home/pi/home-capture-project/aws.env && ruby /home/pi/home-capture-project/run.rb >> /tmp/motion/motion.log 2>&1