Secure Baby Monitor

My little evolving project to make a baby monitor using devices a little more hardened that the usual stuff from the store

Marcus Berg

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While my wife was pregnant I decided to start assembling the bits I needed to put together a DIY baby monitor. Having greater control of the bits means a more secure system than open broadcast video and audio or off the shelf IoT.

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1 × Andoid Phone
1 × Mumble server
1 × Raspberry Pi Zero W
1 × Pi Camera NoIR

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Version 1
Marcus Berg • 09/06/2018 at 11:44 • 0 comments

The first version is just the phone running Plumble. On the phone I have turned the volume down so no audio can sneak out from the device and disturb a sleeping baby. This connect to Mumble running in a Virtual machine.

Clients are as simple as anything that can run a Mumble client, for me it's my main Android Phone (and my wife's) and Plumble, to reduce chances of noise getting out, I have muted the microphone, but if you are regularly in a different room for you partner, you can also have a conversation, like, who's turn it is to change the baby.

I have a Pi Zero W with camera ready to go, and it will be installed soon, we'll call that Version 2.

For those concerned with security and or Google, get a cheap phone that you can get an ungoogled or AOSP image for, load up the F-droid store and download Plumble from there, or simply load the Plumble apk by hand.