Show HN: Privacy-first home security on mobile with smart alerts
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#2This app lets you turn your unused phone into a security camera. It has AI event detection (person, face, animal) and smart alerts, but the smart functionality runs offline. No footage is sent to our server. Actually we don't have a server. You don't need to sign up or create a profile. Notification is sent through Apple's server (we currently have only iOS app).
We are doing beta program (free). We'd love to hear your feedback, and especially learn about your use case.
Re: Show HN: Privacy-first home security on mobile with smart alerts
#3This app lets you turn your unused phone into a security camera. It has AI event detection (person, face, animal) and smart alerts, but the smart functionality runs offline. No footage is sent to our server. Actually we don't have a server. You don't need to sign up or create a profile. Notification is sent through Apple's server (we currently have only iOS app). We are doing beta program (free). We'd love to hear yo…
I would give it a try if there was an Android version. I don't have an unused iPhone, basically because their value in the second hand market makes it worth to sell it insted of keeping it.
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#4Looking at your website this seems well done.
> require device with iOS 14.1 or later
This means an iPhone 6S or newer. Not often an unused device, I think ;-) I have a 6 that I use for tests, but otherwise I could get good money even for that one.
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#5There is a similar app for Android called Haven that can use TOR to access remotely.
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/turn-your-old-android-phone-...
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#6For Android, there's a project called Haven [1] made by Edward Snowden. It doesn't use fancy AI, but it does monitor the camera, mic, and other sensors for changes, and sends notifications via Signal.
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#7Is this always on? Or event triggered?
I have a use case and an iPhone 7 that stopped reading SIM cards. But I wont have a cord long enough to keep it plugged in all the time. And the battery doesn’t hold a charge very long...
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#8In this day and age with all sorts of different cameras we also need a better NVR system to be doing continual recording and accurate away from home motion alerts. Perhaps such a thing could be shoved into a raspberry pi 4.
The current state of consumer cameras are either spend $300 for an indoor one that's "cloud enabled". Or $100 for a bullet that you need an NVR to have effective.
Re: Show HN: Privacy-first home security on mobile with smart alerts
#9This app lets you turn your unused phone into a security camera. It has AI event detection (person, face, animal) and smart alerts, but the smart functionality runs offline. No footage is sent to our server. Actually we don't have a server. You don't need to sign up or create a profile. Notification is sent through Apple's server (we currently have only iOS app). We are doing beta program (free). We'd love to hear yo…
We have cameras on driveways, etc where there is no power or ethernet. These cameras (and perhaps a solar powered wifi mesh network, which these could form if they had the right software) are a reasonable solution to that problem:
I’d love to have it take video feeds from something like those. (Perhaps via a standard network protocol.)
Store + ml recognize them locally, and simultaneously client-side encrypt and stream them to an s3-compatible bucket (eg backblaze b2).
Bonus points if the gizmo has a sim card and backup battery so it keeps working if power / internet are cut. (Most of the time it’d upload via residential broadband (wifi/ethernet), but while the house is being broken into, it’s fine if it burns a few GB of cell plan data.)
Make sure the box is compatible with some sort of ssd/nvme drive (no moving parts), and not just hdd.
One model for monetizing it: AGPL or BSL it, and offer some cloud side services for convenience features like managing the encrypted bucket, pruning “boring” videos after 30 days, etc. edit: or, provide a nice (open source, simple) nat hole punching vpn service so phones can see the video in real time. Maybe charge for access to bounce servers and automatic setup.
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#10Looking at your website this seems well done. > require device with iOS 14.1 or later This means an iPhone 6S or newer. Not often an unused device, I think ;-) I have a 6 that I use for tests, but otherwise I could get good money even for that one.
I have been on 6S+ for YEARS - and have no desire to upgrade due to, I believe, this is the last iPhone before facial recognition - which I DO NOT WANT.
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We bought a house recently and it came with a Cobra 8-camera security system - which comes from Harbor Freight (inherited - I didnt install it) -- but its remote mobile app is some shady 3rd party app from China - and it rarely works, but I am convinced it allows for backdoor access by the dev... so I don't use it...
Is there any way to use this with the cameras I already have installed (inherited) with this app?