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Privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras (Raspberry Pi Zero 2W)! (lemmy.zip)
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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

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[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago

Curious what went wrong with your Reolink run. That's what I've got. Doesn't require an app or account, and works with home assistant.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I bought a unit + 4tb surveillance drive, to replace a (what we thought was a) dying nest hardwired gen2 doorbell. I was excited - pulled it out of the box, 'oh, it has an AC brick too! I can set it up and make sure it works before we install it'

Prepped the camera, prepped the nas to ingest the feed and drives, setup the non-proprietary stream (the acronym/letters escape me), all on the AC plug... And the feed, from the cam to the reolink app absolutely ground to a halt. I'm talking like, after 5 minutes of uptime, the feed was 60+ seconds behind. Absolutely wild. I restarted the app, phone, doorbell, no fix. I turned off the open-source (?) feed, going with only reolink's proprietary stream. Better, but after 10 minutes it was still 30+ seconds behind. Reset the doorbell, set it up again, no change...

So either I got a defective/malfunctioning doorbell, a bad AC plug (but wouldn't it just die if it was pulling too much power...?), the AC plug isn't rated for anything more than very intital setup (I saw nothing about that in the instructions, and why would you do that...) or that is 'working as intended' which, why even bother if that is true.

B&H accepted both doorbell and drive, opened, no questions asked. Was very excited and it genuinely ruined my day. :(

[-] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry to hear your bad experience. Was the acronym you were looking for ONVIF?

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, that's it!

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I thought ONVIF is just the control, not the stream. the stream is normally RTSP

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe - I have two decades in tech but camera stuff is basically still new to me. I just know that the ootb system for reolink doesn't play nice (or at all) with any systems that are foss/not reolink, so I had to toggle the setting for it to cooperate.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

yeah, unfortunately they often put that toggle behind a registration requirement

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