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!

    • kibblebits@quokk.au
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      3 hours ago

      Additional comment,

      Caligra.com

      A computer that has its own Linux distro that does work but it clearly a demo.

      Been taking $99 preorders for… two years?

      Secluso will be taking “preorders” this month. Wanna bet how many years before it launches its hardware?

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        2 hours ago

        You don’t have to pre-order, just wait until it’s released and buy it then. And in this case you can get a raspi and test the product for yourself, so why spread FUD?

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      3 hours ago

      And that makes them a corporation that cannot be trusted. Because if they have any data or access in any fashion… it’s not actually private.

      And from what I can see it’s two people? Who are they. I want to know where they live and how they vote. It’s a lot of faith in the very very unknown. How will they handle government data requests?

      You can already run DietPi and cam software for a very secure camera setup on your own for like $40 per camera (I dunno about price hikes lately)

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        2 hours ago

        Matrix. Bitwarden. Nextcloud. There are many examples of open-source, self-hosted applications that have for-profit companies that offer to host them for you as a service. Now if you use one of those Nextcloud providers to store your notes, can that providers read all your data? Of course. But for people who don’t want to self-host, it’s often a more trusted option than Google.