I am fairly new to Home Assistant (about a month) and I have it integrated to smartthings , running duckdns with nginx etc and a couple of dashboards.
I am also running Motioneye for my cameras which seems to be one of the most stable camera apps I have used to date and works well with my dashboards, however I have noticed (using glances) that Motioneye is really kicking my cpu upto 96% utilisation so I am considering moving Motioneye off onto a second PI (currently using a PI 4 with 4GB and 32GB SD card).
I am looking to find out if anyone as already done this , how hard is it and are there any gotcha’s ?
My thinking is if it on a second PI it no longer forms part of HA so will I be able to include it in an HA dashboard ?
Appreciate any help please as rather not spend money on another PI to find out it as major drawbacks to do this .
Of failing that any ideas on hw to stop Motioneye eating up my CPU … I have tried a number of changes to the motioneye config but nothing helps ( I have 6 cameras with RTSP feeds from and Annke DVR)
Andy - I did exactly what you’re talking about…I purchased a second Pi and installed MotionEye OS and made it a dedicated machine for the cameras. Then I just created a lovelace tab with the camera images pointed from the 2nd pie. Pretty easy overall. Good luck!
Thanks Mark , good to hear the idea works. Can I ask a couple of questions please?
I was looking at using the Motioneye image for the new PI , is this what you did?
I’m using RTSP feeds into Motioneye which when open in HA I just use that link in a kiosk browser for the dashboard can I ask how you pointed the camera images from the 2nd PI to Lovelace ?
Update: I purchased a new Raspberry PI 4 / 4GB with a nice fast 32GB SD card, case and power supply. Very easy to implement … downloaded the image file from https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/releases
I used balenaEtcher to write the image to the SD card and once complete and slotted into the PI 4 it boot straight up. Quick scan of the network with Angry IP Scanner and it was ready to browse to and setup my cameras. I did try to do a backup from the HA instance and restore to avoid adding all the cameras but it failed and screwed up the build so I had to repeat the image flash.
Within HA I didn’t delete Motioneye , just turned it off and stopped it from auto starting, just in case I need it again.
Result … so much better , Glances now shows my HA PI running at a reasonable utilisation and the cpu temp as dropped by about 10 degrees …
I use fully kiosk browser with my dashboard so just quick change to the url for the new PI and works like a dream.
Now I just need to find out if its possible to use Glances on my HA instance to monitor the new PI for Motioneye … Anyone know if it can ? and how to do it?