motionEye for Home Assistant (app)

About

motionEye is an app that runs CCTV and NVR camera software inside Home Assistant. It bundles the motionEye web frontend together with the motion camera software, so cameras, including IP cameras, can be added to a Home Assistant setup. The interface opens as its own page in the sidebar. Recording can be continuous, motion-triggered or timelapse with retention settings, and motion detection can send email notifications and follow a schedule. Recordings can be uploaded to Google Drive and Dropbox, and configurable action buttons run shell commands for a chosen camera. Options cover log verbosity, HTTPS for the web interface and an optional motion webcontrol endpoint that has no authentication or SSL. It requires Home Assistant OS, uses the host network and asks for extra system rights.

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Supports

Opens in the sidebar Its own page opens inside Home Assistant.
Actively maintained Its author released or pushed a change in the last six months.

Setting it up

Add its app repository under Settings, Apps, then install and start it.

From the docs

motionEye is a popular frontend to the camera software called motion. This app provides both, allowing you to add your cameras 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.

From the docs of hassio-addons/repository, MIT License. Shortened.

Permissions

Host networkUses the host's network directly instead of its own.
Extra system rightsAsks for privileged Linux capabilities.

Configuration

Log levelControls the level of log details the app provides.
Motion webcontrolEnables the motion webcontrol endpoint running on port 7999.
SSLEnables/Disables SSL (HTTPS) on the web interface of motionEye.
Certificate fileThe certificate file to use for SSL. Note that this file must exist in the /ssl/ folder.
Private key fileThe private key file to use for SSL. Note that this file must exist in the /ssl/ folder.
Action buttonsIf configured, a script will be created to implement a motionEye action button. See app documentation for usage details.