DIY Home Security Camera
Uses the 'motion' open-source project to build a DIY motion-activated home security camera.
Architecture
The rough workflow is as follows:
Motion: Uses webcam to detect motion, and captures video
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./upload.sh: Uploads the video to an S3 bucket
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S3 Bucket: Stores video, and triggers lambda function
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Lambda: enerates a pre-signed link to uploaded video in S3, and triggers SES..
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SES: ends email to target address, containing link to video
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Target email address
Deployment
Install terraform
Ensure zip is installed
Ensure your environment is configured to authenticate with the AWS API, with admin permissions.
Create a tfvars file at terraform/terraform.tfvars, with the following variables:
lambda_to_email="<EMAIL TO SEND NOTIFICATIONS TO>"
lambda_from_email="<SES-CONFIGURED EMAIL TO SEND NOTIFICATIONS FROM>"
bucket_name="<NAME OF S3 BUCKET TO BE CREATED TO STORE VIDEOS>"
You will need an email address already configured in SES to send email notifications from.
Run the follow commands:
cd terraform
terraform init
cd ..
./deploy.sh
Running
Ensure motion is installed
Ensure your environment is configured to authenticate with the AWS API, with at least the s3:PutObject IAM permission.
Add a file called bucket.conf at the repo top level, containing the name of the S3 bucket you created to store videos during deployment.
e.g.
my-video-bucket
Add any further motion configuration to motion.conf as you wish
Run motion