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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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[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

How much does it cost?

And add F-Droid

[–] jkaczman@lemmy.zip 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for your interest!

We tried adding it on f-droid, but it seems like they have a backlog of projects to add. They haven't gotten to test it out yet it seems.

This is why we now support Obtainium for people that do not wish to use Google Play. It can be hooked up to our mobile_client repository releases to pull the universal APK.

We do not charge anything for DIY. For our future offering, we have some information on the main page (secluso.com) of our site in section 4, along with what you would get.

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Great, can you make some promotion video.

With maybe camera feed at night and at day.

Because from information on your site I wonder how looks camera feed at night and at day.

[–] jkaczman@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago

Yes, we are working on such a video. I will follow up here once that is ready.