I have a couple old phones with decent camera but bad battery, that I could run with a power cord. I’m curious if anyone has found a good app for this.
I have a couple old phones with decent camera but bad battery, that I could run with a power cord. I’m curious if anyone has found a good app for this.
I briefly played with the Alfred App
http://Turn your old phone into free baby monitor or sec…: https://youtu.be/davjdwpREkw
I played with one years ago
one of the problems was it recorded any movement , so if the wind blew the tree branch you got a picture ,
There was one app that would let you set the area you wanted to check movement , so you could set it up to only do the front gate and not the bushs next to it ,
But if you are pointing from the house to the street you will probably get a picture of each car that drives by.......
ADDED : you could use a cheap Selfie stick from the Dollar store to hold the phone.....
What are good aps for this? Specifically, one that will record movement and store it on "the cloud." Or even just take a snapshot every so often. Free would be nice, but for just the right ap, I'd pay.
Interesting. I have several disused but otherwise functional phones I could utilize.
Brian said:Interesting. I have several disused but otherwise functional phones I could utilize.
I have two as well. This could be neat.
So today I installed Alfred. It seems good actually. Has a E36 M3 ton of ads on the “watch” screen so I may pony up a few dollars to lose them. It does alert me to a clip every time a car drives past, so I may try a different camera angle.
I also tried using an app that allows my QNAP NAS (like a home server) to see a mobile phone as a camera. QNAP “surveillance station” software seems okay but it repeatedly lost connection with the camera. It also wouldn’t allow me to configure motion sensing so I bailed on that idea after ninety minutes of fooling with it.
BenjaminWiley said:Hey, I used my new phone to capture photos. Well, I sold my old 4 phones to get my new mobile phone.
Did you capture any photos of canoes?
Haven is a free program with a motion sensor security camera feature, I haven't used it myself though.
GB, is there an ap that will override the power button on an android? That is, say you have a security ap running. You don't want someone to turn the phone off, so pushing the button won't turn it off.
Apparently there's an app called Smart Lockscreen Protector that can prevent the power control menu from being displayed while the phone is locked, however phones also have a firmware-level power cutoff (or reboot) that activates when you hold the power button for 30 seconds.
I bought 3x Amazon Cloudcams on Prime Day for $59/ea. Install and setup took about 30 minutes out the door. Ad-free app works perfect and is 100% free for basic version. Really tough for me to argue with that price point with the amount of crap I have to do at home.
Thanks, GB. I'll check them out. I'm trying to help out the severely technically challenged. I would have gone with the amazon cam thing, but even setting that up is beyond them.
Is there an ap to remotely log onto a cell phone? Like remote desktop, or show my PC?
Yes you can do it with a VNC and SSH server (or perhaps an SSH reverse tunnel so you'd only need a client). If it's only for trusted LAN access the VNC server alone would be good enough.
This seems to be the only good native SSH server:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.galexander.sshd
The other option is to run the server in a GNU/Linux chroot.
The only VNC server that doesn't require you to root the phone costs money, and uses the accessibility system for non-accessibility purposes which may soon be disallowed from the Play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.abr.android.avnc
Thanks. Most of that is way outside of my area, like tunnels and clients. I do databases. The stand alone one might work, though. Seems pretty straight forward.
93gsxturbo said:I bought 3x Amazon Cloudcams on Prime Day for $59/ea. Install and setup took about 30 minutes out the door. Ad-free app works perfect and is 100% free for basic version. Really tough for me to argue with that price point with the amount of crap I have to do at home.
This is interesting despite not free. The adverts are really annoying on Alfred.
Edit: anybody have a Wyze Cam?
In reply to OHSCrifle :
How about an old laptop and a bunch of USB cameras ?
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