motioncamera

Motion-detection camera with automatic recording, temperature monitoring, light controls and simple web UI. Originally designed for monitoring pets while away, this sends push notifications using Pushover

Equipment

This was written/cobbled together to quickly fill a specific need: monitoring and managing a pet while away. It is designed to use:L

• Raspberry Pi as the server
• USB webcam connected to the RPi for the camera
• A Xiamo LYWSD03MMC temperature sensor for environment (temperature and humidity) monitoring
• An LED strip using MagicHue that tracks sunrise and sunset. Unfortunately the LED strip was very unreliable, so I added a Meross smart power plug to it so I could automatically reboot it whenenver the LED strip stopped responding (~once per day).

Setup

Edit the configuration values in camera.py and climate.py, including the base URL and Pushover API tokens.

To use, install:

• opencv-python
• imutils
• python-requests
• lywsd03mmc
• Pillow
• flask

Usage

Using systemd, start the following concurrently:

python3 climate.py &
python3 lighting.py &
python3 main.py

Or you can use tmux (see start-server.sh). start-server.sh will start all of the services and also set ulimits to a sane level and disable power saving on the Wifi for the RPi.

As this uses camera processing, you will likely need a fan which is what enhanced-fanctl was originally written for.

Acknowledgements

https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2015/05/25/basic-motion-detection-and-tracking-with-python-and-opencv/