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Show HN: Secure remote iSight viewing and motion detection for Mac, iPhone

theoncueapp.com

13 pointsjoe_inferno12 comments

I'm about to pull the trigger on this purchase (its only $3!) but I have this fear that anything recorded is going to be sent to a third party without my knowledge. Tell me I'm crazy for thinking this.

Hi, I'm the owner and only developer. Your image data is sent through a TURN server I operate on AWS in order to facilitate the remote viewing, and only if a synchronized device exists and is online. You don't need have to synchronize an iOS device to use the other desktop features. Aside from the TURN server, the app makes connections to another server I control for managing synchronization between devices.

The data is encrypted using two way TLS and the traffic is sent (without any processing or storing, or transmitting to third parties) to devices you have synchronized.

Your fear is probably not atypical, and as an indie dev it's maybe my biggest obstacle for this app's success. With that said, my number one priority for users is data security. I spent a great deal of time working on the security aspects alone, and if you have any questions about the details please feel free to contact me-- my information is available on the website linked.

EDIT: more clarity (I hope)

One question that pops up is: is the data transfer activated only if you pair the desktop app with the iOS app? (EDIT: re-read your answer and now I see that you replied to this already)

Can we remain sure that no data is sent otherwise?

As well: being able to launch a command on specific events would be nice for us hackers (if it's not already there, didn't check yet in depth).

Yes, no data is sent otherwise. If you have ever synchronized an iOS device, the desktop app will make a quick connection to determine its external IP address upon launch and communicate that to my managing server, but this is only used when a synchronized iOS device wants to connect.

Thanks for the idea about launching on specific events, I will definitely look into putting this in a future release :)

Great - thanks for the feedback! Purchased, and congrats on launching this. This is a very specific pain point and it looks well treated.

PS: you could "market" the fact that no data is sent a bit better, maybe have a big switch in the setup that makes the current config clear (with bold "no data sent" by default etc). Hope this helps!

Thanks Joe. Purchased.

EDIT: Also, raise your price!

You probably just got a whole load of crash reports from me, most of the time I get just a "Searching for connection..." message [1] but it also won't stay running for more than a few seconds.

[1] http://drp.mk/i/BMzz

I would have paid $30+ for this without hesitation. Just so you know :-)

Amazing app! Bought and added to my tumblr! :) http://nclx.tumblr.com/

Feature request: motion detection + record to HD.

Sorry, do you mean to the Hard Disk, or in High Definition? :) OnCue already does record to the disk when you configure it to, you can set it to record on either a motion or an audio trigger.

Thanks for pointing that out. I've purchased it.

Another question: Is it possible to run from cron? I don't want to have it running all the time. For example when run from the command line, is it armed by default or do I have to set it to arm manually from the menu?

If it's not armed when run, it would be nice to have:

  OnCue --arm-video --arm-audio

Thanks again.

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