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Haven is for people who need a way to protect their personal spaces and possessions without compromising their own privacy, through an Android app and on-device sensors
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Request: The Most Important Meta-Feature #294

Open saanganik opened 6 years ago

saanganik commented 6 years ago

Perhaps the biggest reason someone in risk will want to use Haven is to get some hard evidence. I know, and have known for long, that someone is breaking into my house. I was again away for a week and now it has become in your face: we know that you know and let's see what you can do about it. Just before I returned (an hour or so before), someone entered and spilled water randomly in the kitchen (it hadn't even dried up). The only phone that I was able to configure with Signal had its charging cable taken out, so it stopped sending heartbeats after a couple of days. (This time, I didn't rely on power banks. I put each phone on the mains charging, with inverter support, so that power cut couldn't affect it. One phone had no logs for the whole week that I was away. One did, but doesn't seem to have registered anything, or else had it deleted. It seems to have gone zombie, so it is still registering logs, even though it is apparently disactivated. The third one had the charging cable taken out. I even have cameras installed, which were messed with and I am struggling to get them working again.). In such a situation, Haven is useful to me only if it can give me some hard evidence, otherwise I already have physical evidence, but I can't prove it to anyone.

Also, the new RC version that I installed, does not take photos no matter what, even if I wave in front of the phone and shake it up vigorously.

Please consider this as a meta-feature request, both with regard to the phone cameras and the sensors. Even the least bit of hard evidence that Haven can produce will be much more useful than lots of logs which can't be considered hard evidence.

lukeswitz commented 6 years ago

I’m sorry to hear your privacy was invaded and Haven failed to capture photo evidence; the main feature of the app.

On some older devices enabling video recording breaks camera input; video & still. Can you test this or provide the details of devices having issues?

I’m guessing the video bug is related to the AudioManager being called in an invalid state or an encoding problem. Phones without external storage (Nexus models, etc.) also seems to confuse the camera. That confusion can lead to the zombie mode you’re talking about.

I’m gunning for big stability improvements in the coming releases.

n8fr8 commented 6 years ago

Thanks for looking into this @lukeswitz - perhaps we should have put more warnings around the video recording feature.

n8fr8 commented 6 years ago

Also @fn107ba it might be useful to have one device out of view, just to record any audio. It could be put on top of a shelf or hidden under a piece of furniture perhaps.

saanganik commented 6 years ago

I really appreciate the work you are doing. Haven may perhaps be the last hope for someone in my situation.

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TacoTheDank commented 6 years ago

D:

deviantollam commented 6 years ago

did Haven not at least register alerts and record the individuals who entered the house and unplugged the phone and/or disabled your cameras?