If you want to use your old phone a good place, then we will tell you today a way that you can try without much time and hard work. Do you know that you can convert your old phone into a security camera (CCTV camera) without much trouble? Learn how
There may be different reasons for monetizing a CCTV (close circuit television) in your home or office. It is very expensive to install a special CCTV camera and you cannot even install it yourself. But instead of using an old phone, it is very cheap jugaad. For this, you have only a smartphone or tablet and a right software.
When it comes to the CCTV app, there are hundreds of apps in this category. If you search ‘CCTV’ in Android Play Store, then many results are openly in front.
Finding software from this list is nothing short of a challenge. We mostly tested the app that were available for free. In the popular app on Google Play, ‘CCTV Mobile’ did not open on 4 notes of Samsung Galaxy S7 or Lenovo Vibe. Another app ‘Vatron CCTV DVR’, with good ratings on Google Play, worked for a few minutes before the crash and the problem did not get cured even after reinstall.
The line CCTV app, which has been downloaded by several thousand people, proved to be a fake app. We also tested many other apps and our experience was very poor. But ‘Home Security Camera-Alfred’ and Camera online: We got our work apps as CCTV IP Cam. Both these apps worked well, although these apps lack many features that we saw in another app. The user interface of another spuller app ‘Fachacam’ is very bad, making it difficult to setup.
Eventually, we found all the things of work in the app called ‘Athom’. Apart from clear and simple UI and feature, this app is also quite reliable and that makes it different from another app.
Now take an old phone in your hand and download and setup the app which you want to install. This will require an old phone that is working with a Wi-Fi connection. Fix the phone to a place from where you are able to connect it properly with the charger because you would not want the battery to be finished in the middle of the recording. Apart from this, you will also need another phone or tablet to play the video feed. Or you can also view video on your Windows PC. Now know how to make your phone a security camera with some easy tips.
1) Install Athom Video Streamer (Android) iOS on your old smartphone. This handset will be used for streaming camera feed.
2) Now, download the Athom Monitor App (Android) on the handset on which CCTV feed is want. This phone or tablet will be used to view the camera feed.
3) Now launch the app on ‘camera’ and camera feed viewing devices. As soon as the app is online, athom video streammer will generate a unique connection ID (CID) with a username and password. After this, you have to put 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 Athaom Monitor App (Athom camera on iOS) on the device that is being used for feed monitoring. After this, enter the account details and click on ‘Ed a feed’ using the pre -generated QR code.
Scan the code and now your CCTV streammer and receiver will start working.
5) Do you want to access CCTV stream on your desktop? It is possible if you are using Windows. For this, you need to download and install the Athom camera desktop client.
If there is a webcam in your system, you can scan QR code like step 3, otherwise you have to generate username like step 2 and log in.
You can do four camera stream add and monitor in the desktop client.
6) This app includes features like schedule recording and two-way talk. You can switch between front and rear cameras as well as monot LED flash from remote.
The most important thing is that you can record the stream or also take a snapshot. The video is a store in SD quality MP4 format.
Store a one -minute stream of 3 MB storage. This means that a full day (24 hours) feed will require about 4.5 GB storage, so if you use the camera every day, then you will need to transfer the file to your computer every day.
Now talk of data usage, Athom streammer consumes 64 MB in 10 minutes. Even after viewing, the same number of data is consumed.
Almost every feature of this app works without any upgrade. Only a feature that needs to be paid is the use of the stream backup on the company’s server, which is optional.
Just after this small process you can convert your old phone into a CCTV camera. Isn’t it easy! Now whether it is your home or office, if you have old devices, then you can use them well.
