How to Turn An Old Android Phone into a Networked Security Camera

How to Turn an Old Android Phone into a Networked Security Camera

Why Would I Want to Do This?

Well we all are Tech Fan and tech scantiest right? So, Before do this work and make your phone to an security camera see down and follow the instructions.

What Do I Need?

For the job done you need that those thing, as my experience we all people must try this at home for better view and enjoyment:

• One Android Phone with Camera.
• One charging cable.
• One copy of IP Webcam
• One copy of Secured Spy Cam
• Access to a Wi-Fi network local to the Android phone.
• Remote access to the Wi-Fi network to monitor continuous video feed away from home/work.

Why two different camera applications?

During our testing we had trouble finding an application that could both stream continuous video in an effective and easy to access manner and issue motion-detection alerts effectively. Rather than have you set up a camera system that’s just kind of mediocre at both tasks, we’re highlighting a two prong approach where you can select the best app for your needs and desired level of monitoring.

If you want to get a notice whenever someone, say, drops a package off on your porch or opens your back gate, follow along with the first portion of our tutorial that details setting up Secure Spy Cam.

If you want to generate a continuous live stream, like you would if you wanted to be able to continually check in on the results of an experiment or children playing in the backyard, follow along with the second portion of our tutorial detailing how to set up IP Webcam.

Finally, if you are reusing one of your old phones we would strongly recommend performing a factory reset on the device and then updating it to the most current version of Android available. Stability is important when deploying a device such as a security camera, so removing any extra applications, freeing up as much memory as possible, and running the most recent stable Android release for your device are all important considerations. Refer to the documentation for your specific phone to reset it and update Android.

Configuring Secure Spy Cam:

In all our tests of Android motion-detection software, Secure Spy Cam came out ahead in every category.First, grab a copy of SECuRET SpyCam in the Play Store and install it to your device—if you’re wary of purchasing an app without test driving it first there is a demo copy available here.Its motion detection algorithms were the most consistent, it features tons of individual settings you can refine to help it work with the widest number of devices, it also features email and Twitter based notification as well as automated Dropbox-uploading, as well as the ability to capture not only photos but video segments too

The first important decision is to decide whether you want the security camera to capture still photos or video segments when triggered. Navigate to General –> Motion Capture Mode –> and select either Photo or Video. Although we tested both functions, for the purposes of this tutorial we’re configuring the camera for photo capture.

While still in the General menu, select Photo Settings to configure photo and notification settings.

Here, finally under the Actions section you can turn on Email and Twitter notification. While there may be some application for live tweeting your security camera images, we’re more interested in configuring the email service.

Select Email, then check Auto Email Captures, and then plug in the credentials for a Gmail account. Finally, plug in a delivery address for the alerts. You can customize the email’s Subject/Message lines, but we found no particular need to do so.

Navigate to General –> Dropbox to plug in your Dropbox login information and settings.

Firstly, check Auto Sync Captures, then click Log In to authenticate Secure Spy Cam with your Drop box account. The final setting is to select whether you want the Drop box syncing to occur over Wi-Fi only or via Wi-Fi and your cellular data plan.

Now that we’ve configured the basics, it’s time to test the camera out. We strongly recommend not messing around with the default settings until you’ve actually tried out your system—in almost every instance the default settings worked fine for us and required no further tinkering.

Exit back to the main menu and select Built-in Camera and press Start.

It only takes a minute or two of waiting before one of the fish swims over to investigate.

Thats all, Now you have a fully spycam .Now play with it.

Thank you for reading This.