G+_William Tate Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 I was thinking last night about a DiY Nanny cam or surveillance camera. Basically I am going to go out of town next week. I thought it would be cool to setup a camera and login from my phone to see how things are going back at home. My first thought was to use a old laptop and a webcam. Then I wondered if I could do something like this with an old android phone. So I have my old Droid X lying around. Would there be a app or some way to turn my old phone into a video device that I could check remotely from my Galaxy S3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Greg Daniels Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 I have been thinking about something like this for webcasting. I have a tripod a phone mount and my smartphone for recording but using it as a live streaming camera would be nice too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_William Tate Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 I was just going to come here and post this too :) Saw some videos on how to get it to work. Also using TinyCam Monitor https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alexvas.dvr&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hbGV4dmFzLmR2ciJd I haven't gotten it working via the internet yet. but internal network it worked fine. I have also read people signing up for ustream accounts. I was thinking of trying to figure out ways to record it also, but we will see whatelse I can find out. Kind of cool stuff. Might make a decent show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Danny Autrey Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 William Tate You can use IP WEBCAM to do this. It is in the play store and its free. Now to use it as an ip cam you will have to jump through a few hoops. The list is a little long for here but some of them are port forwarding and setting up a static ip address so you can view it from outside the house. It takes a little while but it does work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_William Tate Posted July 6, 2013 Author Share Posted July 6, 2013 Forgot to post I got it working from remote. I used IP Webcam on the phones, then port forwarded in my router. I am able to check it from my S3 using tinyCam Monitor, but can also check it out from the chrome browser using java, or viewing in VLC :) Maybe I will make my own know how video on it ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_William Tate Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 Yay, iyaz akhtar is doing this on the show today :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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