Turn Android Phone into a surveillance camera

The dedicated monitoring system usually quite expensive and take too much effort to complete setup. So why not take advantage of smartphone its Android. Article will guide you to do that.

To set the smartphone equipped with a camera surveillance system cheap, you have two ways to convert.

First, you can set up a surveillance camera motion detection - this camera will perform snap a photo and send alerts when detecting a change in the monitored area.

Second, using a camera found video to your computer constantly. This function is best when you want to control children all the time or keep an eye on the door waiting for a key parcel that.

What you will need:

- Android Phone with camera
- charger cable
- free app called IP Webcam (for video streaming) or SECuRET SpyCam app cost $ 4.5 (for motion detection and warning.)
- WiFi Network camera connectivity with web and Android phones.

SECuRET SpyCam Configuration

First SECuRET SpyCam app downloads from Play Store and install them on the device. Then open up and set up.

In the right corner of the application interface, click the Settings icon.

The first important decision is whether you want the security camera to take pictures or video while pressing the button. To do this, users go to General -> Motion Capture Mode and select Photo or Video.

When still in the General menu, select Photo Settings to configure settings and picture messages.

In this section, users can choose black and white or color images, the resolution that you want, you can set up to capture 5 images per button.

Finally, under the Actions section, you can open the email message and Twitter . You select Email, then select Auto Email Captures and enter your email address.

The next step is to configure Dropbox sync. By default, all photos are stored in the device's memory (and email alerts to you if you activate email alerts). If you want to sync photos with Dropbox, Dropbox selected in the General tab.

Return to the main menu and select Built-in Camera and press Start.

Every time the Start button, you will see the screen like above - a small screen in the top left corner display with track action.

Configuring IP Webcam

While SECuRET Spycam detect motion and send alerts the IP Cam is the perfect tool to turn Android devices into a surveillance camera video transmission directly.

You can monitor the video (photographed from the camera) using any browser modern web, usesoftware such as free view IP Cam Viewer for camera surveillance from other Android devices, they connect to Skype and even transfer them to in the media as VLC.

To install , you first install the application from the Play Store. Once the application is installed, open the application, drag the mouse down and integrated into the Stream on device boot.

The second important setting is to set up Login / password so that only you have the sole right to access WiFi network monitoring, if felt necessary, you can skip this step.

After the basic settings are tweaked and start working, you click Start Server.

Then you will see the screen like above, next click on the How do I connect? located in the left corner of the screen. Do you provide the IP address and the HTML page as below.

You'll find the guide path or IP Webcam to connect to the transmission of music, directly in your browser via the Java plugin, and links them to the Android camera app view. The quickest way is to start monitoring Java applications using built like this.