Selfhosted

These comments are why privacy products will always be behind. Why open-source is full of dead projects. These people are just trying to make a living off making privacy-focused products. And all the comments are like "They're a for-profit company? They had marketing material prepped to reply to people's comments?!".

The code is open-source, self-hostable, built using commodity hardware (raspi), and they're just trying to make it sustainable by providing an optional paid service. This is not the enemy.

I’ve been looking for something like this. To be more accurate, I’ve been looking for something that works as a doorbell/intercom, that doesn’t rely on big tech in some way or other. But this seems like a promising start.

I like what this project is trying to do, self hosted security cameras need to be more accessible to get people to stop using corporate spyware.

The poster’s account is under 1 day old. There are multiple brand new accounts interacting with this post, too.

And one of them is replying with positive sentiment.

But the one calling it sus is also 5 days old, and making good points.

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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

[Thread #312 for this comm, first seen 24th May 2026, 22:40] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

I'll wait.

Nice! I've been wondering lately if there was an open-source solution for this

Now hack ring cameras so existing installed cams can connect to your own hosted network.

From a quick glance at the repo?

The commits generally come hot and heavy. Going back to the earlier 2025 commits and the messages mostly look like what you would expect from folk raw dogging main. Arrdalan in particular looks "real"-ish. Whereas jkaczman is already showing signs of the kinds of commit messages that claude et al generate, but those ARE based off certain style guides.

Roll up to 2026 and I can see 11 commits on May 17 alone, they all look like claude messages, some are outright just arbitrarily changing magic hashes, and there are little to no comments.

Not gonna fully call this ai slop but, it is REAL flipping sus as it were. At best, this is enthusiast code without proper engineering and is immensely unmaintainable. Use at your own risk.

Finally, open source surveillance

Amazing work guys! Looks very promising. If I needed cameras I would use this.

This is interesting. Can you give me a ballpark on your hardware cost for an 8 camera system? What does integration for NAS look like?

Exited to see more! Keep up the good work!

Very nice. I'm desperately trying to get rid of my Ring cameras. This looks like a viable option.

Can I have the video pushed to a self hosted server (eg NAS or proxmox VM) and just have my android be a client of that server?

Why a pi zero I've seen something like this done with an esp32 and a pi pico pi zero seems like putting an nvidia 1080 in your nes emu machine

Secluso is developed by Secluso, Inc. and co-founded by:

Ardalan Amiri Sani, a UC Irvine professor with expertise in computer security and privacy

John Kaczman, an open source and privacy enthusiast with experience in automation, systems, and AI.

~70% Rust. Are they all Rust programmers? How much of this app was generated through LLMs?

Ideally the thing should be broken into a "Camera captures images and makes it available in an open format" side and an "Application for Linux/Windows/Mac/iOS/Android/whatever reads said open format data and shows it to the use/records it in local hardware", so that if one's chosen provider for one of the sides enshittifies you can easily replace it, but I can understand the tendency to make and launch the whole thing fully integrated as one non-interoperable big bundle from a single provider given that in practice "do it and they'll come" projects that just provide data in an open format in the expectation that other people will make the software that uses it, almost always fail.