Raspberry Pi Remote Monitor

This application will connect to your raspberry pi Camera using Motion Project

Raspberry Pi Remote Monitor will be able to connect to your Raspberry Pi Camera in a secure environemnt.

This application will connect to Motion only using Basic Authentication for more information about configuration or questions please referer to https://github.com/danidomi/motion or daniel.alexandre.domingues@gmail.com

Configuration

Motion Configuration in Raspberry Pi

Download only for WINDOWS - https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager

Download raspbian link - https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest

After writting the image to SD Card, from the command line login using pi as username and raspberry as password

>wget https://github.com/danidomi/motion/releases/download/release/motion.zip

>unzip motion.zip

>cd mmal

>sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev libavformat56 libavformat-dev libavcodec56 libavcodec-dev libavutil54 libavutil-dev libc6-dev zlib1g-dev libmysqlclient18 libmysqlclient-dev libpq5 libpq-dev

>sudo apt-get install nginx

>sudo apt-get install apache2-utils

>sudo htpasswd -c /home/pi/.htpasswd admin

Add a cronjob to check if the motion camera is online add this to the bottom of the file

>sudo crontab -e

*/1 * * * * pgrep motion || /home/pi/mmal/startmotion

You wont even need to start it

Nginx Configuration in Raspberry Pi

>sudo apt-get install nginx sudo apt-get install apache2-utils

>sudo htpasswd -c /home/pi/.htpasswd admin

>vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Add the following code below to it

location / {

# First attempt to serve request as file, then

# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.

try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

auth_basic “Restricted”;

auth_basic_user_file /home/pi/.htpasswd;

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8081/img/video.mjpeg;

}

And start the service

>sudo service nginx start

FreeDNS Configuration in Raspberry Pi

Create an account if you don't have it

>vi ~/updatedns.sh

Copy the below content to it.

#!/bin/sh

wget --no-check-certificate -O - https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?XXXXXXXXXXXXX >> /tmp/XXXXXXXXXXXXX.log

>crontab -e

*/1 * * * * ~/updatedns.sh