What is the SecureEyes Hub?
An always-on machine in your home that pulls each camera once, records to a disk you own, and lets you reach the house from anywhere. It needs a Pro licence.
Why a Hub
Cameras sit on private addresses the internet cannot reach, and a phone cannot stay awake to record. The Hub is an always-on service inside your home that does both jobs: it keeps the recording going, and it is the one thing a remote session talks to.
It also fixes something you can feel without recording anything. Every viewer that opens its own connection is another session the camera has to serve, and cheap cameras run out. The Hub pulls each camera once and serves everyone from that. On our own bench that took twenty-six camera sessions down to fifteen, and the two cameras on Wi-Fi stopped dropping off the network.
What it does
- Pulls each camera once and republishes it, so one camera session serves the recorder and every viewer at once.
- Records continuously to a disk you own, with retention you set.
- Cuts clips from footage it already holds, so saving a moment does not re-record it.
- Plays footage back with a day at a glance, scrubbing and frame steps.
- Says why a gap is a gap: the camera was not answering, recording was off, the disk stopped taking writes, or the Hub itself was down.
- Drives a TV wall on a screen wired to the Hub, composited on the GPU.
- Lets you watch from anywhere, sealed end to end, with no ports opened on your router.
- Keeps cameras on a VLAN with no internet, with the Hub as the only way in.
What it runs on
A Debian package for arm64 and amd64, installed with one line on Raspberry Pi, NAS, Proxmox and mini PCs. The installer works out which package your machine needs, checks it against a signed manifest, and installs it with apt.
Recording is a copy of what the camera already sent, so it costs almost nothing: a box recording sixteen cameras sits at a few percent of one core. Storage is the real constraint, and the sizing calculator, on the Download page and in this knowledge base, answers it from what you actually record.
Direct local viewing keeps working. A paired Hub is the road home, not a gate in front of your cameras.
Its licence
The Hub runs on a Pro licence. The SecureEyes app activates it when it sets the Hub up, over the internet, and after that the Hub renews it by itself about once a day. One Pro purchase covers 3 Hubs.
The Hub itself needs to reach the internet at least once every 90 days to keep its licence. The cameras never do. A Hub with no valid licence stops serving and recording and says why on its screen. It never deletes anything.
What is still coming
- The relay that carries a remote session. Every frame is already sealed to your Hub's key and the relay is built to carry traffic it cannot read, but the service is not open to the public yet.
- Reaching the Hub over a tunnel you already run, such as Tailscale or WireGuard. Designed, not built.
- Desktop service wrappers for macOS and Windows. Debian packages cover Pi, NAS and Proxmox first.
- A Pro purchase. Pro is not on sale yet, so no Hub can be activated today.