Raspberry Pi Surveillance Camera with Motion Capture & email alerts

Follow the following tutorial to  install SURVEILLANCE CAMERA WITH MOTION CAPTURE :

https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2015/06/01/home-surveillance-and-motion-detection-with-the-raspberry-pi-python-and-opencv/

OpenCV must be installed to get detection of motion

Adding Email Alerts

Start by installing the tools you’ll be using to send emails:

sudo apt-get install ssmtp
sudo apt-get install mailutils
sudo apt-get install mpack

Then Run :

sudo nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

Check file must contains the following configuration parameters

#FromLineOverride=YES

root=yuvirpr@gmail.com
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
rewriteDomain=gmail.com
AuthUser=yuvirpr@gmail.com
AuthPass=********
FromLineOverride=YES
UseTLS=YES
UseSTARTTLS=YES
TLS_CA_File=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

Configuring Motion to send Email

Make a small change to your Motion configuration file.

sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf

You’ll be updating the on_picture_save parameter. Uncomment it and change it’s value as follows (updating the recipientEmailAddress to the email at which you want to receive alerts):

mpack -s "Your Security Camera has detected Motion!" %f [recipientEmailAddress]

If you got error like from email.mimemultipart import mimemultipart  then you need to install send mail.  Follow the tutorial :

http://unixetc.co.uk/2014/11/04/enable-outgoing-mail-on-raspberry-pi/

To check system log

tail /var/log/syslog

That’s It !!!

You receive mails as motion detected by SURVEILLANCE CAMERA

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