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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!

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What temp ranges are these good for? Can it run off solar+battery?

How are you protecting against supply chain attacks?

[–] jkaczman@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hi Brkdncr, thanks for the question!

We honestly do not have a concrete answer for the temp ranges. We've done some testing and made sure they stay under 150F in the 3D case shown in the picture.

We do not currently directly support solar/battery usage. You can probably DIY something together though!

For Software: We've started to thoroughly go through our dependencies by using the Cargo Vet tool, in addition to looking for unmaintained dependencies, dependencies that we can replace with a few lines of code, etc.

For Hardware: We're using trusted hardware providers like Raspberry Pi to try to mitigate this.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cargo is a red flag. It doesn't verify any cryptographic signatures of what it downloads, unlike apt and maven.

[–] jkaczman@lemmy.zip 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

To help mitigate that, we use Cargo.lock files to pin all of our dependencies checksums (integrity validation) until we want to upgrade. When we upgrade, we're working on having Cargo Vet to manually go through (in addition to trusted third party auditors) to ensure the changed code isn't malicious.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Where can I read more about cargo vet and these third party auditors?

[–] jkaczman@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

https://mozilla.github.io/cargo-vet/index.html

2.4 "Importing Audits" goes into these third party auditors (the registry).

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Distributed registries of integrity hashes is an interesting solution to the lack of cryptographic signatures. Thanks!