Pi Surveillance is a function rich home surveillance system implemented on a Raspberry Pi. Main features include:
- Permanent video monitoring
- Motion detection
- Enviroment sensing (with optional sense-hat)
- Record monitor activity to a log file
- Send email messages containing motion alarms (with picture), system status, etc
- Ability to control the monitor remotely over email
- Access[OpenWeatherMap] (http://openweathermap.org) for real time weather report
- Code independent configuration
In order to properly run the Pi_surveillance system you will need:
- Raspberry Pi (2 or higher) running and updated version of raspbian (PIXEL)
- OpenCV properly configured
- Pi Camera
- Sense-hat (optional)
- Internet connection (optional)
The .json configuration file controls the surveillance monitor behavior. Also, gives the user control over the monitoring parameters without the need of changing the code.
The available configuration elements are:
send email: [true/false] - set to 'true' if you want to receive an email when motion is detected
keep log: [true/false] - set to 'true' if you want to save the activity on a log file
ghost video: [true/false] - set to true if you want to see the motion detection video feed
echo: [true/false] - set to true if your raspberry is connected to a screen
alarm: [true/false] - display blinking blue/red lights on the sense hat display when motion is detected
oweather: [true/false] - set to true if you wish to obtain the weather report from OpenWeatherMap
oweather_key: [openweahter_key] - you can obtain this key for free at [OpenWeatherMap] (http://openweathermap.org)
oweather_city: [openweahter_city_code] - City where you want to obtain the wheather report from
sys_check_seconds: [number] of seconds to wait to check if a remote comand has been sent via email typically: 600
sense_hat: [true/false] - set to 'true' if sense-hat attached and want to get temperature/pressure/humidity readings
camera_warmup_time: [number] of seconds the camera needs to adjust focus, exposure, etc.
camera_resolution: [number, number] to set the picture resolution
camera_rotation: [number] to set the camera rotation in degrees
camera_fps: [number] of frames per second. typically: 16
delta_thresh: [number] to set the image threshold adjustment
min_area: [number] of pixels that have to change in the image to sense motion. Tipically: 2000
min_upload_seconds: [number] of seconds to wait before consecutive uploads
min_motion_frames: [number] of consecutive frames with motion required to trigger the alarm
fromaddr: [email address] of your raspberry pi (sender) - Gmail account only!
smtpass : [password] to your raspberry Gmail account
toaddr: [email address] to whom the alarms and other information will be sent to
window_title [title] of the video feed window
several version of the default.json file can be saved to acommodate different needs
To install the Pi Surveillance monitor, simply copy the following files to the same directory:
- pi_surveillance.py
- default.json
Pi_surveillance can be remotely controled. You just need to set a Gmail account for the raspberry. Commands to the monitor are sent using the subject line of the email.
The available commands are:
- send picture: Take a picture and send it back
- send ping: Send a short text indicating the system is up and running
- send log: Send the system log file
- send system: Send file with current uptime, processor load, CPU temperature and other system parameters
- reset log: Initialize the log file and erase the current file
- stop email: Stops the monitor from sending emails when motion is detected
- start email: Initiates the emails sending when motion is detected
- flash on: Turns the sense hat display on (all white)
- flash off: Turns the sense hat display off
- home: Deactivates the keep log and send mail
- away: Activates keep log and send mail
To launch the surveillance system from the command line:
While running pi_surveillance from a terminal, you can use use the following commands:
a: Set AWAY mode (activates email and log recording)
b: Display the brightness level of the current video feed
c: Capture current video feed to a still image
e: Display Sense Hat environment sensors information and weather report
o: Set HOME mode (disables email and log recording)
h: Display terminal commands help
q: Terminate the program
This project is based on previous work done by Adrian Rosebrock of [pyimagesearch] (http://www.pyimagesearch.com)
Current version is 2.6.
This version of the monitor has been tested with Pyhton 3 and raspberry Pi 3 only.
To ensure proper execution launch the application from the terminal command line (NOT IDLE).
Please check license.txt for licensing terms.