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Install guide · 6 pictures · about 15 min

Install the hub on a Raspberry Pi

A silent recorder that’s always on. Four pictures and one line to paste.

You need

  • A Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 (a Pi 3 is fine for 1 or 2 cameras)
  • A 32 GB or bigger microSD card, and its power supply
  • Raspberry Pi Imager on your computer (free, from raspberrypi.com)
  • A USB disk if you want more than a few days of recordings
$ curl -fsSL https://unicam.si/install.sh | sudo bash
How Glimpo fits together: your cameras send video over your home Wi-Fi to the hub you install, and your phone watches the hub from home or away.

Your cameras → the hub you’re installing → your phone. Footage stays at home, or in your own cloud.

  1. Raspberry Pi Imager with Raspberry Pi 5, Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) and SD card all chosen and ringed in yellow.

    Step 1: Make the SD card: pick 64-bit

    In Raspberry Pi Imager choose your Pi, then Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit), then your SD card, then Next. It has to be 64-bit.

  2. Imager’s OS Customisation: hostname glimpo.local ringed, a username, home Wi-Fi, and Enable SSH on the Services tab.

    Step 2: Name it glimpo, add Wi-Fi, turn on SSH

    When Imager asks to edit settings, say yes. Hostname: glimpo. Pick a username and password, add your Wi-Fi, and on the Services tab tick Enable SSH. Save, then Write. Put the card in the Pi and plug it in. Give it 2 minutes.

  3. A terminal: ssh you@glimpo.local, then the install line highlighted in yellow, with the installer starting below.

    Step 3: Paste one line

    On your computer open Terminal (Mac) or PowerShell (Windows). Type ssh you@glimpo.local (with your username), enter the password, then paste the line below and press Enter. It takes about 5 minutes.

    $ curl -fsSL https://unicam.si/install.sh | sudo bash
  4. The finished installer in green: “Glimpo Hub is running” with the hub address, pairing code and the pairing page address.

    Step 4: Done. It starts by itself

    The installer prints the hub address and your pairing code. The hub starts every time the Pi powers on, even after a power cut. Run the same line again any time to update.

  5. Then pair your phone · same for every hub

    A phone browser open at the hub address followed by /pairing, showing a large 6-digit pairing code and a countdown.

    Step A: Open the pairing page

    On any phone or computer on your Wi-Fi, open the hub’s address with /pairing on the end. The big number is your code. It changes every 10 minutes and works once.

  6. The Glimpo app’s “Pair your hub” screen with six code boxes filled in and a green “Paired” message.

    Step B: Type the 6 digits in the app

    Open Glimpo on your phone: Get started → Already set up? Enter your code. Your hub finds the cameras on your Wi-Fi and they show up on your phone.

If something’s off

Quick fixes

Still stuck? Open a ticket and a person answers, usually the same day.

“32-bit Raspberry Pi OS” error

Write the card again with Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit). Glimpo needs 64-bit.

ssh: Could not resolve glimpo.local

Wait another minute, or use the Pi’s address from your router’s app instead, e.g. ssh you@192.168.1.50.

Where does the footage go?

To the SD card by default. Plug in a USB disk and pick it as a storage folder in the app’s Storage tab, or add a NAS, WebDAV or an S3 bucket like Backblaze B2.

Other hubs

Glimpo Hub 0.2.1. Pictures show what you’ll see; your screen may look slightly different.

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