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Privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras (Raspberry Pi Zero 2W)! (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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!

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[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 307 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

These comments are why privacy products will always be behind. Why open-source is full of dead projects. These people are just trying to make a living off making privacy-focused products. And all the comments are like "They're a for-profit company? They had marketing material prepped to reply to people's comments?!".

The code is open-source, self-hostable, built using commodity hardware (raspi), and they're just trying to make it sustainable by providing an optional paid service. This is not the enemy.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 103 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yeah, free, open source is fun, but we should also just support companies that have good ethics and want to make enough money to earn a living and keep making good products that respect people.

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 13 points 21 hours ago

Yeah supporting companies which makes privacy focused products, will create incentives for selling them to people which want them not just gaining additional profits from selling your data or showing you with ads

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