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!
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.
I don’t mean the topic, I mean the project itself.
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!)