RaspberryPi Motion Detection

This is the configuration of my Raspberry Pi that is running a Motion daemon, PhP and an Apache Server. Motion record videos when a motion is detected (from the Raspberry Pi camera), then i have cron jobs that merge and speed up videos, and put it in the Apache server.

Memo

Usefull commands

#Check if motion is running (and alert/error)
sudo service motion status -l

#Edit Motion config file
sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf

#Edit crontab
sudo crontab -e

#Reboot raspberry
sudo shutdown -r now

Installing Motion

#Update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

#Install motion
sudo apt-get install motion

#Recognize RaspberryPi Camera V2
sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2
echo "bcm2835-v4l2" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

#Config motion
# Change the start_motion_daemon to yes in :
sudo nano /etc/default/motion
# Edit the config file (or see mine) :
sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf

Installing Apache

#Update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

#Install apache
sudo apt-get install apache2

#Change owner and get rights
sudo chown -R pi:www-data /var/www/html/
sudo chmod -R 770 /var/www/html/

#Test if it works
wget -O verif_apache.html http://127.0.0.1
cat ./verif_apache.html

Installing PHP

#Install PHP
sudo aptitude install php5

#Remove apache index.html
sudo rm /var/www/html/index.html

#Test if it works
echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/html/index.php

Directory password protection (Apache)

#Install apache-utils
sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-utils

#Create user/password
sudo htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/.htpasswd {THE_USERNAME_HERE}
#then prompted to type the password

#Edit apache config
sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
# Find the <Directory> block for the /var/www directory that holds the document root. Turn on .htaccess processing by changing the AllowOverride directive within that block from "None" to "All":
<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

#Add .htaccess to the directory
sudo nano /var/www/html/.htaccess
# Type :
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Content"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
Require valid-user

Installing ffmpeg

#Add repository
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
# Add :
    # Backports repository
    deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free

#Update
sudo aptitude update

#Install
sudo aptitude -t jessie-backports install ffmpeg

Installing Imagemagick (convert)

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Links

• Motion
• Motion Config File Options
• Installing motion on Raspberry
• Installing web server