A bare-bones Raspberry Pi security camera application with motion detection, video clip and snapshot capture, and email notification support.

The spicam repo was renamed spicam_old and archived when Broadcom changed the proprietary GPU code, effectively preventing much of what we were doing via MMAL. So much for the Pi Foundation constantly rah-rah-ing about open source, eh? While this would have been a very fun project to complete and use, I gave up on this angle. The new spicam will simply monitor modern Amcrest IP cameras (specifically) for event notifications and route the relevant clips to safe storage on a NAS. Not nearly as interesting, but it was probably inevitable that onboard processing would become this cheap and commonplace.

• Configurable motion detection (MMALSharp wiki)
• h.264 video clips of motion detection events
• JPEG snapshots at the start of motion detection
• Email notifications with optional snapshot attachments
• Optional motion detection mask
• Coming soon: Streaming video (disables motion detection)
• Coming soon: Streaming motion analysis (high-stress, Pi 4 suggested)

• .NET Core 3.1 runtime

• Local unsecured SMTP port 25 relay to a secure mail server
• Ramdisk for temporary local video buffering and storage
• External storage (HDD, SDD, NAS) for video and snapshot storage

• Implement non-motion-detection switches / features
• Document app configuration (appsettings.json)
• Document setup of requirements and mail relay
• Document usage as systemd service and provide scripts
• Add rolling-file logging
• Transcode to MP4 when moving h.264 to external storage