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MotionEye

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About

MotionEye is a camera/webcam package. The port is set to 8765

Config

This is the yml entry. Notice that the devices is commented out. This is because if you don't have a camera attached then it will fail to start. Uncomment if you need to. This is for a Pi camera, you will need to add additional lines for usb cameras

  motioneye:
    image: "ccrisan/motioneye:master-armhf"
    container_name: "motioneye"
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 8765:8765 
      - 8081:8081
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ./volumes/motioneye/etc_motioneye:/etc/motioneye
      - ./volumes/motioneye/var_lib_motioneye:/var/lib/motioneye
    #devices:
    #  - "/dev/video0:/dev/video0"

Login Details

On first login you will be asked for login details. The default user is admin (all lowercase) with no password

Storage

By default local camera data will be stored in /var/lib/motioneye/camera_name in the container which equates to the following:

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Remote motioneye

If you have connected to a remote motion eye note that the directory is on that device and has nothing to do with the container.