Very cool!
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How does it scale? Can I do 50 cameras?
Can I do 20 users with granular permissions?
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Exited to see more! Keep up the good work!
What temp ranges are these good for? Can it run off solar+battery?
How are you protecting against supply chain attacks?
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!
Cargo is a red flag. It doesn't verify any cryptographic signatures of what it downloads, unlike apt and maven.
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Cool
I'm sorry, but it's a pretty big oversight to push the security aspect so hard that you don't say a single thing about the actual camera. Nothing on the functionality, specs, etc...
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This isn't the first project like this, motionEye OS has been around for years.
Thanks for the reply! Based on what I know about motionEyeOS, I would say the projects have different goals.
From MotionEyeOS's website: "Get instant email notifications when motion is detected.", "Save recordings to cloud services, network drives, or local storage. Automatic backup and archiving options."
We differ because we specifically made this to not compromise on functionality. We offer push notifications, easy private access via our mobile app, and the cloud relay cannot decrypt videos.(whereas it seems if you were to use the cloud with MotionEyeOS, they would not be encrypted).
While you could go local in MotionEyeOS to avoid that, it would be more inconvenient for most people, and we wanted something that could be a non-feature-compromising private replacement to modern cameras that's simple to setup and easy to use.
Yes, I’ve used motionEye OS before. It was quite good, although a little bit choppy in video quality, and lacking the push notifications to make it useful to me (or at least that was the conclusion that I came to at the time, which may or may not have been correct!)
I don’t mean the topic, I mean the project itself.