How to set up an old smartphone as CCTV Camera
To fix CCTV cameras are very expensive in nature. The CCTV camera will help to reduce criminal activities and theft. It is very easy to work with CCTV’s because it can be placed anywhere and we can manage those in a computer or mobile phone. The CCTV cameras are available in different shapes and can be hiding in everywhere on walls. It is very important to check the quality of the camera. Otherwise, you will be cheated. Nowadays, people who were started using smartphones as CCTV. In this trending period, everyone has mobile phones and the majority of these people were using smartphones. Every smartphone user is trying to upgrade every day. They are always surfing for the latest featured smartphones and tries to avoid the old ones. But you can do a better thing using your mobile phone like security cameras. Here I am going to explain, how we can use our old smartphones as security cameras.
You can use your old smartphone as a security camera while using the Android application named Alfred Home Security. We can download it from Google play store through the link;
It is the toppest application in the category of house and home in the Google play store. And another thing is, you also need to download the same application in another smartphone to watch the videos. You can use your Gmail account for this purpose. The highlighted features of this application are;
- Motion detection
- Alarm
- Two-way talk
- Low light filter
- Siren
- Trust circle
- Live to stream
- Instant intruder detector
- Unlimited cloud storage to store footages
- 360 camera
Steps to set up the camera;
- After opening the application, you have to choose the camera option from this application (the application will show two options camera or viewer).
- Then you have to sign in with your Google account.
- Keep your device always charged
- You can view the footage from another device (the other device should install the application)
- Then open it on your second device and select the option viewer.
- Then you should sign in with the same Google I’d that used in the other device. Then you can see the footage easily and can share.
You can also access the footage from your computer by signing in through the website that https://alfred.camera/webapp/ .