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About

motionEye is a popular frontend to the camera software called motion. This add-on provides both, allowing you to add your camera’s to your Home Assistant setup.

motionEye is Open Source CCTV and NVR, that is elegant and really easy to use. It can be used as a Baby Monitor, Construction Site Montage Viewer, Store Camera DVR, Garden Security, and much more.

Some cool features of motionEye:

Support for a ridiculous amount of cameras, including IP cams.

Add multiple cameras by hooking up multiple motionEye instances together. For example, by using MotionEyeOS on a Pi Zero + Pi camera in your network.

Supports uploading recording into Google Drive and Dropbox.

motion detection, including email notification and scheduling.

Can record continuously, motion, or timelapse, with retention settings.

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other add-on.

Search for the “motionEye” add-on in the add-on store and install it. Start the “motionEye” add-on. Check the logs of the “motionEye” to see if everything went well. Click the “OPEN WEB UI” button! Login with username “admin”, without a password. Edit your admin account with a secure password!

Support

You can always try to get support from the community here at the Home Assistant community forums, join the conversation!

Questions? You have several options to get them answered:

You could also open an issue on GitHub, in case you ran into a bug, or maybe you have an idea on improving the addon:

At this moment our Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server and GitHub are our only official support channels. All others rely on community effort.

Repository on GitHub

GitHub hassio-addons/addon-motioneye motionEye - Home Assistant Community Add-ons. Contribute to hassio-addons/addon-motioneye development by creating an account on GitHub.

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