Raspberry Pi Camera Motion Detection System

• The purpose of this repository is to use a raspberry pi camera to efficiently detect motion and notify a client somewhere, as well as provide remote access to that device.

Project State

• This project is currently in a heavily developmental state, where its primary areas of research have been largely explored up to this point and there is a reasonable amount of knowledge, in terms of knowing what needs to be done not necessarily how to do it, in all key areas of future research.

• The organization of this project has, up until the commit that has created this readme, left a lot to be desired. This is a primary point of emphasis as the project continues.

Project Roadmap

• Most of this information is able to be figured out via commits and reading the todo.md, but that isn't particularly efficient.

• General List Of Things To Do:

  • Refactor latest motion detection code into new file that saves readability.
  • Begin working on creating a primitive notification system that saves a file and emails it to myself.
  • Begin working on a manager system that allows for someone connected to the same network the ability to switch the pi from detecting motion to serving a live feed from the camera and switch back once they disconnect.

Files Overview

• python/motion_detector.py
  • The new motion detection file that I will be building ontop of to complete tasks on the General List Of Things To Do.
  • This is the only important file at the moment as it will essentially be the epicenter of all current development. (This file is run on the pi)
• python/sigma_delta_testing/pi_files/
  • These files are all run on the pi
• python/sigma_delta_testing/client_debuggers/
  • These files are used to debug data coming from the pi, much more useful than you would think.

Interoperable Files

As mentioned above, some of these files were developed to help me debug/test new things. I kept the more useful ones.

• pi_files/raspicam_fast_srv.py -> sigma_delta_testing/demo_client.py
  • Get the original and compute energy image on client
• pi_files/test.py -> client_debuggers/img_debugger.py / client_debuggers/other_debugger.py
  • Get just the energy image or input image
• pi_files/basic_motion_detection.py -> client_debuggers/img_debugger.py
  • Display current energy image as generated by the pi (actual live footage of the pi)