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Privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras (Raspberry Pi Zero 2W)! (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[–] jkaczman@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you're technical, you could probably put together a locally hosted server on your Linux machine and use Tailscale or something like that, it should work fine with the code as-is. Our server binary is in the runtime-binaries zip in the core GitHub release.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Fair enough. Really appreciate the work ya'll have put into this, definitely going to have to mess around with it. Just brought it up because of the community this is in.

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

I would imagine most in this community would opt to use Tailscale or even Headscale rather than relying on a VPS.

I do find it funny how your post on Reddit only got a few upvotes yet here it gets a bunch. Really goes to show you the difference in attitude in each community.

[–] jkaczman@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

It should not be too difficult to set that up with Tailscale. There's no advanced configuration or anything of the sort. Download runtime binaries -> unzip -> generate a user credentials QR using the config tool -> put the user_credentials file in the user_credentials folder next to the server binary -> setup a service for the server on the machine you intend to use.

Our post was taken down on Reddit a couple hours after it was made due to a misunderstanding. The moderators re-instated it a day or two later.