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!
I think they’re just a privacy-focused startup that just wants to make a living off their work
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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?
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?
You’re not listening
this reply adds nothing. Please explain your position
No. I suggest you buy and use their product. Especially, you should put a deposit on it. Do it. Go. Now. Shhhhhh.
Ok so you’re a troll then. Fearmongering doesn’t help the community. If you’re against something give evidence. There’s a balance between fearmongering and blind hype.
You know this community is about privacy and distrusting. Me refusing to talk to you because I know you’re not speaking in good faith doesn’t make me any kind of troll. As I said in my top comment:
Sus.
And it is. If you need more than I’ve said in all my other comments, you go do your own research and come to your own conclusions about it.
ok first off, this community is about self-hosting, there just happens to be a lot of overlap between people who self-host and people who care about privacy.
And if you thought privacy was about distrust, that is a very unhealthy view. Privacy-minded folk simply have different principles than the mainstream. But if somebody comes along that shares those principles, then trust can be earned.
OP’s product is open-source and self-hostable. This is aligned with the community. I’m not saying to throw money at the product before it’s released, but it’s worth keeping an eye on, and showing support for.
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)
yeah, the 2 person startup big corporation. you lost your mind. if you want to make hardware, you can’t do it without a business, you’ll need to be handling money in quantities. not all businesses are bad.
I encourage you to put your money where your mouth is and preorder.
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.
And… people are now wondering just how fast Bitwarden can speedrun late stage capitalism with recent changes. And realizing just how much data Bitwarden Corp actually has.
We go through cycles of this. Company A is bad but Company B is good… and it is almost always based on marketing. Google used to be AMAZING because “do no evil” and “they gave me a bunch of gigs of email storage!”.
Hell, some of us might be old enough to remember when Spideroak was the bee’s knees and totally secure… until people started realizing there were issues with what they were saying. They have no copies of your encryption key… but you can recover your password. And then there was the brief debacle where people realized they could download any file they had the hash for. But hey, they weren’t Dropbox!
I don’t think a company being involved inherently makes it bad. I don’t even think a company that keeps keys on their servers are inherently bad. Data… gets murky but that is more because of the logistics of what that means for hosting and operating costs.
But it IS important to actually assess a product before using it and to understand the risks. Every year or so people lose their shit at Protonmail when they find out that, contrary to widespread belief, Proton Corp isn’t going to serve a century in a black site for their customers. And every single time, people point out that Proton never said they would. They are VERY upfront about what they do and don’t provide and… the reality is that most of the privacy oriented benefits of that service are in that they don’t require any kind of authentication to create an account. Which… is akward when you realize it is better to NOT pay if privacy is your concern.
But what makes a random start-up with no meaningful (professional) footprint “a more trusted option than Google”?
You’re not listening.