bcambl/picam-playbook

Automated installation and configuration of raspberrypi motion cameras

Pi Motion Playbook

Automate the installation and configuration of raspberrypi motion cameras

Ensure the following set via raspi-config

• camera enabled
• video memory split to 128 MB

Requirements

Ansible must be installed to use ansible playbooks

sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install ansible

Note: ansible >= 2.4

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Instructions

1. Edit the hosts file with the IP address of each raspberry pi

2. Ensure you have an ssh key setup to each raspberry pi

   From workstation terminal, do the following for each raspberry pi ie:

   ssh-copy-id pi@192.168.X.X
   

   The above command will prompt for your password

3. Install:

   ansible-playbook -i hosts picam.yml --tags install
   

Modifying motion settings

Modify motion settings in settings.yml then execute

ansible-playbook -i hosts picam.yml --tags configure

The motion service will be restarted after the configurations have been updated.

Uninstall

ansible-playbook -i hosts picam.yml --tags uninstall