IFTTT is awesome!, so try an create you own recipe to trigger an telegram message to yourself or have your Amazon Alexa Echo device play some music.Click here to download the source code to this post Now run a quick test and adjust the Frame change threshold setting under the motion detection section if required. Then modify the URL below with YOURKEY and add it to web Hook URL in motionEye as shown in the first screenshot above. Once you are done make a note of your webhook setting key which you will find at this l ink.

You will also have to setup Phillps HUE channel first by login into your HUE account. On the IF side of the applet choose maker webhook and create a trigger event called 'HUE_on' and on the then side of the applet selected Phillps HUE and select the light you would like to turn on from the drop down, in my case I am choose to turn on all the lamps in the house. To setup the recipe head over to, create an account and click on the new applet. As part of my setup I am using IFTTT recipe to turn on all the Phillips Hue lights in the house once motion is detected. This is an optional step, but is a great addition to scare the intruder. In my case, I am using the Ubuntu 16.04 as my host operating system to write a 16 GB SD card, but if you are using window you can use a tool like etcher or use the terminal app if you are using an Mac.įor more info check out the motionEyeOS wiki. writeimage.sh -d /dev/mmcblk0 -i '/path/motioneyeos-raspberrypi-20171008.img' -n 'yourWiFiRouterName:yourWiFiRouterPassowrd'Īs part of this command, if you are using a Raspberry Pi zero W you can modify the command above to include your WiFi router username or password.

Start by running the following commands to write the SD card wget. Here are the steps you will have to go through to setup Raspbian on the Pi.ĭownload the latest version of the motionEyeOS from. In my case I am using MotionEyeOS because it easy to setup and gives you fair bit of configuration parameter you can play with which I will be discussing in the next step. To stream video via the Pi camera you have a bunch of options from using a simple package as mjpg-streamer to something more complex and involved like OpenCV.

Raspberry zero camera setup