Raspberry Pi Night Vision Camera For Motioneye(os)

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I was searching for a decent design for a Raspberry pi camera that I could use with Motioneyeos and found BarbedWire's design, which is awesome and exactly what I needed. I modified the PIR motion sensor since Motioneyeos uses the camera to detect motion so swapped it out for a 940nm IR led ring. I also added an input jack on the side as I am powering it with a 12v lipo using a step down convertor that is inside the camera body. I tested and works very well. Motioneyeos does not need a movement sensor (PIR) because the camera is always on, and frames are compared to each other, and when a frame is different, something has moved, then it starts to record to the SD card. Live or recorded images/video can be viewed using a web browser, and there is also a complete advanced menu which contains many settings that can be adjusted such as how sensitive motion detection is, resolution, record video on motion only or just record on start up etc. For my build, I wanted a night vision camera so I used a Raspberry pi NOIR camera and IR Leds along with a 3amp 12v to 5v convertor. The 5v feeds the PI and 12v powers the IR ring. I printed the body and other parts, mounted the sensor in the sensor mount then glued the parts in place. As for the missing parts, get these from the original design that I remixed this from. Link to downloads for motioneyeos: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos If you want to use a preconfigured raspbian and motioneye image for R-PI 3 also set up for night vision only, just download it from here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t3aH0gYNoNF7qAxtrmTFqKKXBfYDHwwu If you want to use raspbian as a base os for motioneye and do a manual install instead of the downloadable img file, just follow this guide: Get the latest Raspbian stretch upgrades: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Must be signed in as root to install motioneye: sudo su Add v4l2 driver for picamera, you can skip this if only using USB webcams or netcams: sudo nano /etc/modules Add, after i2c-dev: bcm2835-v4l2 Extra packages from the standard repos: sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libmariadbclient18 libpq5 mysql-common ffmpeg sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev sudo apt-get install python3-pip sudo apt-get install python-pip Get and install pre-built motion package for stretch: wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/download/release-4.1.1/pi_stretch_motion_4.1.1-1_armhf.deb dpkg -i pi_stretch_motion_4.1.1-1_armhf.deb sudo dpkg -i pi_stretch_motion_4.1.1-1_armhf.deb Install motioneye: sudo pip install motioneye Initial setup of config files and motioneye deamon: sudo mkdir -p /etc/motioneye sudo cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye sudo cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.systemd-unit-local /etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable motioneye sudo systemctl start motioneye Restart the system: sudo reboot To upgrade to the newest version of motionEye, just issue: pip install motioneye --upgrade systemctl restart motioneye