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Well for now until they disable the Internet you could just start live streaming. There is the one app designed for police encounters that connects you to a lawyer but it’s a subscription and IDK what they can do about ICE, Attorney Shield.
The ACLU used to have a “Mobile Justice” app that automatically uploaded video, but they discontinued it at the beginning of last year for some reason.
So you’re telling me that if someone breaks your phone during a video recording or stop and delete the recording, they can just find this video on their cloud service? I genuinely didn’t know.
Depends on how damaged the phone is after stopping the recording. Modern phones are fairly tough. Stepping on it might break the screen, but the inner workings would likely still function for example. Simply knocking it out of someone’s hand isn’t going to have any effect at all.
I think the ACLU, EFF, and some other orgs also have apps that similarly automatically upload footage, but regrettably I don’t have any links.
I use syncthing for this exact purpose. Its p2p, so it requires no hosting experience, and can sync to any number of private or public devices. Just sync your main camera folder to any (ideally always-on) PC, laptop, a secondary phone or your friends/families devices.
mp4 files generally get corrupted if the recording isnt properly ended, so i have my camera app set up so that it starts a new file every minute or so. That way even if my phone is destroyed/snatched, the last clip that makes it to safety is pretty recent.
No it does not, otherwise i wouldnt have recommended it. There are public discovery servers hosted by syncthing and community members that handle the initial contact.
There really isnt anything different about using it over the internet. Just exchange QR code or device ID once and from then on they automatically find each other as if they were on the same LAN. Takes a few seconds longer to connect than over LAN ofc.
I’d like to have this for my home PC, but I also don’t want it to be serving as an always-on server. Creating a home server is one of those bucket list items I have for when I can get a dedicated device for it…
does anyone know self hosted video recording software? so if you record the cops, and they take or break your phone, the footage is on a nas?
First thing that comes to mind is to host your own jitsi server and record to that. I may just give it a go now.
Well for now until they disable the Internet you could just start live streaming. There is the one app designed for police encounters that connects you to a lawyer but it’s a subscription and IDK what they can do about ICE, Attorney Shield.
The ACLU used to have a “Mobile Justice” app that automatically uploaded video, but they discontinued it at the beginning of last year for some reason.
yeah this is what i want to replicate.
A lot of phones will automatically upload your photos and videos to a cloud account. Example:
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/sync-photos-videos-icloud-iph961b96c4d/ios
Does nothing for a phone that gets snatched mid-recording though
If the cell connection and/or WiFi is active, it uploads. If you’ve disconnected your cell connection because you’re at a protest, maybe. 🤷♂️
So you’re telling me that if someone breaks your phone during a video recording or stop and delete the recording, they can just find this video on their cloud service? I genuinely didn’t know.
Depends on how damaged the phone is after stopping the recording. Modern phones are fairly tough. Stepping on it might break the screen, but the inner workings would likely still function for example. Simply knocking it out of someone’s hand isn’t going to have any effect at all.
I think the ACLU, EFF, and some other orgs also have apps that similarly automatically upload footage, but regrettably I don’t have any links.
I use syncthing for this exact purpose. Its p2p, so it requires no hosting experience, and can sync to any number of private or public devices. Just sync your main camera folder to any (ideally always-on) PC, laptop, a secondary phone or your friends/families devices.
mp4 files generally get corrupted if the recording isnt properly ended, so i have my camera app set up so that it starts a new file every minute or so. That way even if my phone is destroyed/snatched, the last clip that makes it to safety is pretty recent.
Syncthing website - https://syncthing.net/
Syncthing Android App - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork/
OpenCamera - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/
Doesn’t Syncthing have to be on the same network?
No it does not, otherwise i wouldnt have recommended it. There are public discovery servers hosted by syncthing and community members that handle the initial contact.
https://docs.syncthing.net/users/stdiscosrv.html
It works completely seemlessly over the imternet.
Ah neat, thanks. I’ve been using it on my home network but haven’t tried the public discovery stuff as of yet.
There really isnt anything different about using it over the internet. Just exchange QR code or device ID once and from then on they automatically find each other as if they were on the same LAN. Takes a few seconds longer to connect than over LAN ofc.
Tailscale should get you over that hurdle I would think.
I’d like to have this for my home PC, but I also don’t want it to be serving as an always-on server. Creating a home server is one of those bucket list items I have for when I can get a dedicated device for it…
I just use an old phone with either a big SD card or an external SSD connected over USB. Uses ~1W and takes up very little space.
Stream live to (insert platform here)
There used to be an ACLU app for 16 states that immediately sent the video the yourself and ACLU whenever it stopped recording.