Use your old Android Phone as an IP camera

Every one of us has at least one old semi-broken old phone in the drawer. In this article, I’ve described how I transformed this old piece of tech. junk into a fully functional security camera accessible from the internet.

My old Asus Zenphone with broken display. It has a very good camera :)

Ingredients:

• 1 Android phone with functioning WIFI connection, camera, and display
• 1 Configurable Internet Router (or, to get things very spicy, you could install a private VPN server)

INSTALL THE APPLICATION:

Let’s start with the easy part: installing the application that will transform your phone into an IP Webcam. (Requires Android 4.1 and up)

IP Webcam - Apps on Google Play

This application is completely free and it comes with several nice features as Video recording, Motion detection, Auto-start streaming at device BOOT, enhanced night video streaming, two-way audio, and several more.