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Privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras (Raspberry Pi Zero 2W)! (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by jkaczman@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hey everyone,

We've built an open-source, privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W (called Secluso). It uses end-to-end encryption to send videos from the camera to a mobile app, which is available both in Google Play Store and Apple App Store. We also support Obtainium for people that do not wish to use Google Play.

We've put in a lot of effort to make it easy to set up! You can set up our camera on your own Pi in less than 5 minutes with minimal technical expertise using our easy-to-use GUI deploy tool. Here are our setup guide and open source release.

The image shows a Pi in an official Raspberry Pi enclosure that you can use for your camera. We've also been working on a HAT for the Pi to add night vision, audio, temperature monitoring for safety, all in a compact form factor. You can see the HAT and an enclosure for the whole camera in the photo.

We've been working on this for almost 2 years now, and we look forward to we look forward to seeing what you all think! If you're interested in our efforts in general outside of DIY, our main website with our pre-built offering is here: click to see our website

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[–] kibblebits@quokk.au -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I would consider someone making a system that would run on a VPS and made zero external connections in regard to the camera software.

The problem is auto updates, telemetry, how they probably require a phone app when a web browser is 100% capable. Did I compile that phone app myself? No.

Most people don’t even know what to look for. Poor education. 🤷‍♂️ it’s too hard to help them. They should just get a local closed circuit system. It’s just about Amazon packages anyway

[–] jkaczman@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hi kibblebits, please see below!

  • We do not have telemetry.
  • Our Android app is fully byte-for-byte reproducible. If you build it locally on your machine using our reproducible build script, it will match byte-for-byte the one in our GitHub releases. You can read more about reproducible builds here. In addition to our Android app, our deploy tools, OS image and binaries have these as well. This guarantees they were built from the source from our repositories.
  • Our relay is self hostable on any VPS you like.

We’d be happy to add an option to disable auto update in our next release.

If you have any other ideas for features we can add or changes we should make, please let us know.

[–] kibblebits@quokk.au -2 points 1 month ago

What date is your hardware shipping? The exact date.