balena-io-experimental / balena-motion

balena-motion

Live stream your device's webcam using Motion to create your own motion-detecting cat cam like my TuckerCam.

Getting started

The default deployment uses Debian.

/balena-motion/
├── Dockerfile.template
├── motion-template.conf
├── README.md
├── start.sh

This application uses a standard USB webcam. Some older versions don't play nice, but most do, and are successfully found by the system on /dev/video0.

All the motion directives in motion-template.conf can be modified, including the port on which your feed is available. When using Deploy with balena all the key variables are pre-configured as shell variables for you, but can be changed during set-up or from the balenaCloud dashboard device variables. Those variables include DAEMON which is set to off so the container service starts and remains running. If daemon is not set to off your container will start and quit.

In addition to setting the EXPOSE_PORT variable, the balena.yml sets the streaming port (8081 by default), output resolution, framerate, remote access, video device, stream quality, video palette and other variables. To set additional motion configuration settings, add shell variables to motion-template.conf and either add the key/value pairs to balena.yml or manually via the balenaCloud dashboard. Add these variables before adding a device for faster launch, particularly on the Raspberry Pi Zero.

Deploy with balena

Alnerate manual balena build and deploy

$ git clone [email protected]:balenalabs-incubator/balena-motion.git
$ balena push my-motion-app

To view the live stream, visit http://device-ip-address:your-port.