How to convert your old smartphone into CCTV camera

Perhaps you upgrade your phone every year or every two years. But after buying a new phone, when you try to sell the old handset, the price of the smartphone does not get very high. The price of a smartphone depreciates very quickly when resold. But many times instead of selling the old phone at a low price, they leave it lying at home.

If you want to use your old phone in a good place, then today we will tell you a method which you can try without much time and effort. Do you know that you can convert your old phone into a security camera (CCTV camera) without much hassle? know how

There can be different reasons for installing a CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) monitoring and security camera in your home or office. Getting a specialized CCTV camera installed is quite expensive and you may not be able to install it yourself. But using an old phone instead is a very cheap solution. For this you just need to have a smartphone or tablet and the right software.

When it comes to CCTV apps, there are hundreds of apps in this category. If you search ‘CCTV’ in Android Play Store, you get many results.

Finding software from this list is no less than a challenge. We mostly tested apps that were available for free. ‘CCTV Mobile’ among the popular apps on Google Play samsung galaxy s7 Or lenovo vibe k4 note But it did not open. Another well-rated app on Google Play, Viewtron’s CCTV DVR, worked for a few minutes before it crashed, and even a reinstall didn’t fix the problem.

LineCCTV app, which was downloaded by several thousand people, proved to be a fake app. We also tested many other apps and our experience was very poor. But we found our useful apps in the form of ‘Home Security Camera-Alfred’ and Camera Online: CCTV IP Cam. Both of these apps worked well, although they lacked many features that we saw in other apps. Another popular app, FetchCam, has a very poor user interface which makes it difficult to setup.

Finally, we found all the useful things in one place in an app called ‘atHome’. Apart from the clear and simple UI and features, this app is also quite reliable and this is what makes it different from other apps.

Now take an old phone in your hand and download the app you want to install and setup it. For this you will need an old phone which is working with Wi-Fi connection. Fix the phone in a place where you can easily connect it to the charger as you don’t want the battery to drain mid-recording. Apart from this, you will also need another phone or tablet to play the video feed. Or you can also view the video on your Windows PC. Now learn how to make your phone a security camera with some easy tips.

1) Athome video streamer on your old smartphone – monitor (Android , iOS) Install. This handset will be used for streaming of camera feed.

2) Now, open the AtHome Monitor app (Android , iOS) download. This phone or tablet will be used to view the camera feed.

3) Now launch the app on the device with ‘Camera’ and view the camera feed. AtHome Video Streamer will generate a unique connection ID (CID) with a username and password as soon as the app goes online. After this, you will have to enter this information in the phone monitoring the feed.

Or like us, you can also save some time by scanning the QR code.

4) Now launch the atHome Monitor app (atHome Camera on iOS) on the device being used for feed monitoring. After this, enter the account details and click on ‘Add a Feed’ using the pre-generated QR code.

Scan the code and now your CCTV streamer and receiver will start working.

5) Want to access CCTV streams on your desktop? If you are using Windows then this is possible. For this you athome camera desktop client needs to be downloaded and installed.

If you have a webcam installed in your system, then you can scan the QR code like Step 3, otherwise you will have to log in by generating a username like Step 2.

You can add and monitor up to four camera streams in the desktop client.

6) This app includes features like scheduled recording and two-way talk. You can switch between the front and rear cameras as well as monitor the LED flash with the remote.

Most importantly, you can record the stream or even take snapshots. Videos are stored in SD quality MP4 format.

Storing a one minute stream takes up 3MB of storage. This means that a full day (24 hour) feed will require about 4.5 GB of storage, so if you use the camera every day you will need to transfer the file to your computer every day.

Now talking about data usage, AtHome Streamer consumes 64 MB in 10 minutes. The same amount of data is consumed even while viewing.

Almost every feature of this app works without any upgrade. The only feature that requires payment is the use of cloud service to backup the stream on the company’s servers, which is optional.

Simply, after this small process you can convert your old phone into a CCTV camera. Isn’t it so easy? Now whether it is your home or office, if you have old devices then you can use them well.