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
Common commercial cameras such as Ring/Blink/Nest are privacy-invasive and have lots of controversies, some examples being…
We started on this project a long time ago to fix these issues by making it so that no cloud provider can see your home security videos. It’s completely end to end encrypted and private-by-default. It also is super easy to use and doesn’t compromise on features. As it’s a Raspberry Pi and it’s open source, it’s completely auditable and not a black box (unlike these common camera providers).That means you can verify that nothing bad is going on within your camera, instead of relying on a promise from someone.