Secluso, an open-source home security camera system built around end-to-end encryption, has shipped its biggest update since launching in 2024.
Originally called Privastead, the project rebranded and gained a second developer over the past year and a half. The camera now runs a customized minimal OS built on the Yocto project. A redesigned mobile app is available on both the iOS App Store and Google Play. Every component except the iOS app now supports reproducible builds: the Android app, camera and server binaries, deploy tool, and the OS itself. The project also added UnifiedPush for push notifications that bypass Google and Apple infrastructure.
Commercial home security cameras routinely funnel footage through vendor servers, where the company can access it. Secluso's end-to-end encryption via OpenMLS means only the device owner holds the keys, and reproducible builds let anyone verify that the binaries they run actually match the published source code. That combination is nearly nonexistent in consumer-grade camera software.
The five-minute Raspberry Pi setup claim is ambitious for a project that still requires buying and assembling hardware. But if it holds, Secluso is about as close to a privacy-preserving camera alternative as DIY gets.