Your own camera recorder, running on a box in your house
SecureEyes Hub turns a Raspberry Pi, a mini PC or any always-on Linux machine into a recorder you own outright. It records the cameras you choose, day and night, to a disk plugged into it, and hands every screen in the house one shared stream from each camera.
It needs a Pro licence to serve and record. Viewing from outside the house comes when our relay opens.
What the Hub does
- No more cameras choking when everyone looks at once
- Most cameras slow down or drop frames when several phones connect at the same time. The Hub connects to each camera once and shares that one stream with every phone, tablet and Mac in the house.
- Records around the clock, on its own disk
- Continuous recording for each camera you choose, kept for as long as you set. It refuses to record onto the disk it boots from, because that disk wears out and would take your footage down with it.
- Tells you why footage is missing
- A gap in the timeline says what caused it whenever the Hub knows: the camera stopped answering, recording was off, the disk filled up or stopped taking writes, there was no recording disk, the Pro licence had ended, or the Hub itself was off. You never have to wonder whether it was ever recorded.
- Your cameras from anywhere, with your router left shut
- Through our relay, sealed end to end to your Hub. The relay passes on traffic it cannot read and keeps no video, and no port is opened on your router. The relay isn’t open to the public yet.
No footage reaches our servers. The Hub is on your network and the disk is in your house. Its licence is activated by the SecureEyes app on the device that bought Pro and renewed by the Hub itself, and the relay, once open, carries only traffic it cannot read.
Before you install
Packages for arm64 and amd64, currently 0.12.6. The one-line installer works out which one your machine needs, checks it against a signed manifest, and installs it.
- A Pro licence
- Activated by the SecureEyes app, then renewed by the Hub itself over the internet. One purchase covers 3 Hubs. How the licence works
- 64-bit Linux with systemd
- Debian, Ubuntu or Raspberry Pi OS with the .deb, or Fedora, RHEL, Rocky, Alma, Arch, Manjaro or openSUSE with the tarball, on arm64 or amd64.
- A route to your cameras
- The same network, or a route to the VLAN they sit on.
- A separate disk
- Not the one the Hub boots from. It will not record there, and shows SE-STA-015.
Related help
- Install the HubOne command installs the Hub on a 64-bit Linux box, checks the download's signature, and starts it on port 8443.
- Set up a new HubClaim the Hub with SecureEyes on a device that has Pro: scan the code on its screen or web page, or claim it without a code in its first 15 minutes. The app then activates Pro for it. A browser can also claim it with the link the installer printed.
- Give the Hub a recording diskThe Hub will not record onto the disk it boots from. Plug in a USB SSD or fit an NVMe drive, then choose it on the Storage tab.
- How much disk and what box do I need?Work out the disk from how many cameras you record and for how long, then choose a box by what you want to show on a screen.