If you have an old Android smart phone and wifi at your house you can use your old phone as an IP webcam.
Im sure you can use an Iphone as well.
Things you will need.
Im sure you can use an Iphone as well.
Things you will need.
- Retired android phone with a camera.. A plus is if it has the LED light for night time. I tested with HTC Thunderbolt and HTC evo 4G lte.
- WIFI coverage. You will need a wifi router that is in range of your enclosure.
- If outdoor you will need power to keep your phone running 24/7
- on the old phone you will need to get it setup on the wifi.
- go to google play store, search and download ALFRED Surveillance IP Cam your phone will need to be logged into your gmail account to access the app store.
- run thru setup and set as CAMERA - You will need a gmail account to tie the software too.
- Mount the phone where you want it.
- on your current phone install ALFRED and run thru setup, set as VIEWER. sign in to same gmail account.
- YOUR DONE! you can view the stream from anywhere.
- on the old phone you will need to get it setup on the wifi.
- go to google play store, search and download IP Webcam your phone will need to be logged into your gmail account to access the app store.
- This software has alot of different settings.. Main thing is set the resolution you want. go to bottom to start the SERVER.
- At this point it will give you the ip and port number that you can punch into any browser to access the phone.. This will be a local ip.. so it will only work with in your home network. And also only on your own phone if your are on your local wifi.
- If you want remote access via the internet you will need to go a couple steps further.
- Because you home cable or dsl modem probably has a dynamic IP you will need to setup a Dynamic DNS service. Good news its free. One service is http://freedns.afraid.org/ you will basically want to setup a subdomain that is forwarded to your home router. You will need some knowlege here that I dont plan on writing steps for.
- Next you will need to setup port forwarding on your firewall.. If you dont know how to access your routers interface than you probably dont need to mess with this anyways.
- You basically will end up with a method to access your ip cam from the internet.
- For example if the ipcam software says your cam is now viewable at http://192.168.1.100:8080 this will only work inside your local wifi or lan network. After you have configured dynamic dns and port forwarding on your firewall you will end up with a url like http://Tortcam.mooo.com:24302
- Any time you hit http://Tortcam.mooo.com:24302 this will redirect to your home router and in turn your home router will forward to http://192.168.1.100:8080
- Once you this is working it will look like below. Video render will be BROWSER and if you want audio.. HTML5 Opus should work on phone and PC.
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