This project uses a raspberry pi with a pi camera to create a surveillance system. The script I wrote uses computer vision to detect motion in a scene. If a motion is detected, a notification email will be sent with the attached image file.
You need a raspberry pi, a micro sd card with raspberry pi OS Desktop installed and a raspberry pi camera.
To be able to send emails, you will also need a Gmail account (better to create a new one for security) and follow these steps to create a Google App password:
- go to security settings
- activate 2-Step Verification
- go to App passwords
- click on "Select app" then click on "Other (Custom name)" and give it a name you like
- click on "GENERATE" and a 16 character password will appear
- edit SurveillancePI.py script and add sender email, receiver email and the password you have just generated
Now you can open a terminal and launch the setup script by typing "sudo bash setup.sh", this will take some hours so be patient
Remember to activate the pi camera!
- open a terminal
- type sudo raspi-config
- go to interface options
- go to camera and enable it
SurveillancePI, program created by David Forino AI Solutions (https://davidforino-aisolutions.com). Make your house safer with a surveillance system using a Raspberry Pi! If it detects a motion above a specified threshold, it sends you a notification email with the picture. BEFORE USING THIS PROGRAM, REMEMBER TO ADD THE EMAIL DETAILS!
optional arguments:
- -h, --help show this help message and exit
- -b, --bounding_box Enable bounding box drawing on original image
- -s, --show Show the image live on screen
- --threshold THRESHOLD Threshold value to detect a motion
- --max_fps MAX_FPS Maximum FPS desired value
- --pause PAUSE Initial pause before running the script (seconds)
- --min_area MIN_AREA Minimum area considered when creating bounding boxes
- --email_timer EMAIL_TIMER Number of seconds before a notification email is sent, if value is negative no email will be sent