Setup Raspberry Pi Camera Module as Motion camera

# Install Motion

sudo apt-get install motion

# Install video libraries and codec  (usually libjpeg62 will fetch dependent drivers)

sudo apt-get install libjpeg62

# Install custom motion-mmal driver. Get latest motion-mmal driver

cd /tmp

wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/jw5r1wss32tdibb/motion-mmal-opt.tar.gz

tar zxvf motion-mmal.tar.gz 

cd motion-mmal 

sudo cp /usr/bin/motion /usr/bin/motion.orig

sudo mv motion /usr/bin/motion
sudo mv motion-mmalcam.conf /etc/motion.conf 

 # Set permissions
sudo chmod 664 /etc/motion.conf 
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/motion 
sudo touch /tmp/motion.log 
sudo chmod 775 /tmp/motion.log
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/motion-mmal/data 
sudo chgrp -R motion /usr/local/motion-mmal 
sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local/motion-mmal/

# Edit /etc/default/motion

start_motion_daemon=yes

# Edit /etc/motion.conf

daemon on

logfile /tmp/motion.log

# Edit /etc/motion.conf according to your preference

# Ensure compatibility with Windows Media Player / VLC

ffmpeg_video_codec msmpeg4   

max_movie_time 180    #3 mins

movie_filename %d-%m-%Y-%H-%M

width 640

height 480

target_dir /home/pi/m-video

output_pictures off

text_left Pi %t

stream_maxrate 100

framerate 100

# Capture 2 frames before/after motion detection 

pre_capture 2

post_capture 2 

# Date formats 

text_right %d-%m-%Y\n%T-%q

text_event %d%m%Y%H%M%S

snapshot_filename %v-%d%m%Y%H%M%S-snapshot

picture_filename %v-%d%m%Y%H%M%S-%q

movie_filename %v-%d%m%Y%H%M%S

# Allow view stream from other machine

stream_locahost off 

# Start motion

sudo service motion start

# Example commands

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# Testing camera

#!/usr/bin/env python

importtime

importRPi.GPIO as GPIO

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)

# Set GPIO for camera LED

# Use 5 for Model A/B and 32 for Model B+

CAMLED =5

# Set GPIO to output

GPIO.setup(CAMLED, GPIO.OUT, initial=False)

# Five iterations with half a second

# between on and off

for i in range(5):

    GPIO.output(CAMLED,True)   # On

    time.sleep(0.5)

    GPIO.output(CAMLED,False)  # Off

    time.sleep(0.5)

# STORE IMAGES/VIDEOS ON A SEPARATE DRIVE e.g. USB Drive
# Create folder for temporary storage of motion files

sudo mkdir /mnt/motion_tmpfs 

# Install NTFS driver, if external drive is NTFS-formatted (optional) 

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

# Create folder for USB Drive 

sudo mkdir /media/USBFlash1

sudo mkdir /media/USBFlash1/shares 

# Install samba for windows file sharing (optional)
sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

# Configure samba edit /etc/samba/smb.conf 

sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.orig 

sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

security = user # uncomment this line

# Add this to smb.conf 

[motion]
comment = Backup Folder
path = /media/USBFlash1/shares
valid users = @users
force group = users
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
read only = no

# Add permissions

sudo useradd backups -m -G users

sudo passwd backups

sudo smbpasswd -a backups

# Add to /etc/fstab (if /dev/sda1 is the drive), estimate 10MB per 3 seconds of video

tmpfs  /mnt/motion_tmpfs  tmpfs   defaults,nosuid,size=80M,mode=0777 0 0 

/dev/sda1 /media/USBFlash1 auto user,umask=0000 0 0

# Create copy script from temporary folder to usb drive for files older than 5.05 mins

sudo nano /opt/tmpfsToUSBFlash.sh 

#! /bin/sh

while :
do
        find /mnt/motion_tmpfs -type f -mmin +5.05 -exec mv "{}" /media/USBFlash1/ \;
        sleep 2
done 

# Create boot scripts 

sudo nano /etc/init.d/tmpfsToUSBFlash 

 #! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/tmpfsToUSBFlash

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          Copies images from the motion tmpfs to a USB Drive
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Simple script to start a program at boot
# Description:       Copies images from the motion tmpfs to a USB Drive
### END INIT INFO

# Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system
case "$1" in
  start)
    echo "Starting copy tmpfs to USB Drive"
    sh /opt/tmpfsToUSBFlash.sh 2>&1 &;
    ;;
  stop)
    echo "Stopping copy tmpfs to serv"
    tmpfsPID=`ps auxwww | grep tmpfsToUSBFlash.sh | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'`
    kill -9 $tmpfsPID
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/tmpfsToUSBFlash {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0 

# Make it executable 

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/tmpfsToUSBFlash 

# Update rc scripts 

sudo update-rc.d tmpfsToUSBFlash defaults 

# edit /etc/motion.conf 

# change target_dir to point to temporary folder

target_dir /mnt/motion_tmpfs

#CLEANUP MEDIA DRIVE, daily (optional)
find /media/USBFlash1/shares/* -mtime +1 -exec rm -f {} \;