motionEye
motionEye is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Video Surveillance category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in Python. It is a self-hosted alternative to Ring and ships a Docker image. It has 4,719 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Video Surveillance
- Python
- GPL-3.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 4,719
- Forks
- 714
- Open issues
- 911
- Commits, last 12 months
- 502
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- 0.44.0Jun 20, 2026
- Created
- Aug 30, 2015
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 502 commits in 12 months.
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 502 |
| Latest release | 0.44.0 (Jun 20, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 2 |
| Releases, all time | 59 |
| Open issues | 911 |
| Open pull requests | 9 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Aug 30, 2015 |
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About motionEye
Online interface for the software Motion, a video surveillance program with motion detection.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye.
Topics
- python
- python3
- camera
- raspberrypi
- motion-detection
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Is motionEye free and open source?
Yes. motionEye is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run motionEye with Docker?
Yes. motionEye provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to motionEye?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to motionEye include Frigate, Scrypted and Zoneminder. motionEye itself is a self-hosted alternative to Ring.
Is motionEye actively maintained?
The most recent commit to motionEye was on Oct 25, 2026 with 502 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 0.44.0, published Jun 20, 2026. It had 911 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.