Raspberry pi case screw hole mount for security camera with pi-camera

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I created this project using various Raspberry PI commercial casings as camera mounts with the included pi-camera (no-IR filter) for a security camera setup. The casing fits perfectly on a camera screw and secures in place with an M10 bolt. It's great to pair this setup with the RPI v3, which comes equipped with built-in WiFi. This means only power is required, and you're ready to go! Here's the setup I used: - Raspbian Jessie lite (terminal-only mode) - RPI 3 board - Camera (IR filter or no-IR filter version) - Enable the camera connector by running "sudo raspi-config" and selecting the first option under the "Interfaces" menu. - To ensure the /dev/video0 device is present, load the correct driver by adding 'snd-bcm2835' to the file /etc/modules and rebooting. - Install 'motion' using "sudo apt-get install motion" - Edit the '/etc/motion/motion.conf' file to set various options: "sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf" width 1024 height 768 framerate 25 webcam_maxrate 10 webcam_localhost off ffmpeg_output_movies off stream_localhost off target_dir <set it to a more convenient folder; for example, /captures; make sure to create it and use "chmod 755 /captures"> locate_motion_mode preview locate_motion_style redbox event_gap 2 output_pictures center quality 80 text_changes on There are many other settings to experiment with, but this basic setup should give you a working motion camera detection system that stores images with each event. To test it, run "sudo motion -n -c /etc/motion/motion.conf" directly. Then, open a browser on your network and access <ip of RPI>:8081 to view the stream. To make 'motion' start permanently on boot, edit "/etc/default/motion" and add "start_demon on". Reboot to see it in action. If you want automatic emails with every motion detection based on this configuration, follow these additional steps: Install mail tools: "sudo apt-get install ssmtp", "sudo apt-get install mailutils", and "sudo apt-get install mpack" Edit the ssmtp config file to define your SMTP settings from your ISP/email provider: "sudo nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf" Set the following options: root=postmaster mailhub=[smtp address]:[port nr] hostname=[your RPI host name] AuthUser=[your user id or email] AuthPass=[your SMTP password] FromLineOverride=YES UseSTARTTLS=YES Assuming you'll use TLS or SSL, check Google for details on using Gmail settings or non-secure SMTP. To test sending an email with an attachment from your motion capture folder (as set by 'target_dir' in the motion config), run: "mpack -s "My test email" /captures/<pick a jpg file name here>.jpg <your email id to receive it at>" Now, add the 'automatic email feature' to motion by editing the motion config file: "sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf" Set the option 'on_picture_save' to execute the mpack command from above. It should look like this: on_picture_save mpack -s "Dude!! I've detected motion on your camera!" %f <your email to receive it at> One final hint: regularly clean your captures folder (e.g., with a cronjob script) to remove older files, or else your SD-card might fill up over time. To do this, edit the file /etc/cron.daily with "sudo nano /etc/cron.daily" Add the following line to delete older jpg files from the folder: find /captures -name '*.jpg' -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; Reboot, and that should be the basics to get it running!