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Welcome to the Security-Camera wiki! After an odd incident at the house I decided on the need for a security camera. But I do not trust these companies not to leak passwords or have the photos leak. I don't walk around naked, not that ANYONE wants to see that, but I'm not 100% covered either.

I figure with a PIR sensor, a Raspbery Pi camera and using a private AWS S3 bucket, I capture the images.

The basic coding of sensing motion with a PIR motion sensor that triggers capturing images or videos with the camera is easy. Pushing the images to S3 is a nice add.

I will be testing both the basic and IR camera. Will test PIR as well as ultrasonic. Lidar would be fun, but those are a bit costly.

The basics for getting this going is simple.

• Prototyping setup
• AWS setup
  • There are plenty of resources on how to this.
  • Create your AWS root account. I would recommend if possible, an email different from the email used for shopping.
  • Create an admin user. This is your primary user. You never use the root account.
  • Create a user that only has S3 full access. For better security learn how to create a custom policy that allows write only access to an existing bucket. No console access required for this user.
  • Create the PRIVATE bucket. Make sure you have at least AWS-256 at rest security. Add cloudtrail, object level monitoring. Use Cloudwatch if you want.
  • For the console access accounts, load Authy or Google Authenticator and turn on 2FA.
• pir sensor setup
  • https://maker.pro/raspberry-pi/tutorial/how-to-interface-a-pir-motion-sensor-with-raspberry-pi-gpio
• Pi Camera
  • https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-picamera/4
• Notification when image is pushed to S3
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/ways-to-add-notification-config-to-bucket.html
  • This is quick and dirty if you are familiarly with AWS services. Took me under an hour to find the right page and get it set up.