Don't rush to sell the old cellphone! Tutorial of changing it into a home camera

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Many mobile phone brands have released new products this month. Have you seen that you ca n’t help but want to change to a new one? Don't rush to sell your old mobile phone or put it in a drawer before replacing it with a new one. Especially for mobile phones that have been used for several years, the price may be only a fraction of the price when you started. In fact, these mobile phones that you think are useless can be renovated a little so that they can continue to serve you at home. The service experience will definitely make you feel incredible.

For example, you can turn your old mobile phone into a baby monitor or a temporary smart home speaker, or you can even convert them into a "fire eye" to protect your home and make it a home security camera.

Don't rush to sell the old cellphone! Tutorial of changing it into a home camera

Let's review with you first, how do home smart cameras nursing homes, or care for the elderly, children and cute pets. The smart camera is composed of lens module, sensor and processing chip. Smart cameras for home care are generally fixed-focus cameras, which use networking modules, usually with built-in WIFi modules. The imaging process of the home smart camera is to realize the process of digitizing the optical signal. The optical image generated by the environmental object through the lens is projected on the surface of the image sensor, and then converted into an electrical signal, which is converted into a digital image signal by analog-to-digital conversion , And then sent to Backend IC digital signal processing chip (DSP) for processing.

No matter where we are, just by connecting to the Internet, users can use their mobile devices or PC-side devices to see the scenes captured by the camera at any time. If necessary, they can also perform real-time voice. The user can also set up a message push function. Once the object captured by the home camera is triggered, it will automatically send the push message to the bound mobile phone or computer through the network.

Don't rush to sell the old cellphone! Tutorial of changing it into a home camera

In capturing the picture, the mobile phone camera is the same as the home security camera. You only need to solve the problem of network connection and image signal transmission to transform the mobile phone into a home security tool. Next, bring the tips of the old mobile phone to transform the home protection camera:

Step 1: Run the security camera application on the old phone

First, you need to choose a security camera application for your phone. Most applications provide many of the same functions, such as local streaming, cloud streaming, local or remote recording and storage of materials, and motion detection and alarms.

After setting, you can monitor the living space and control the security camera directly from the new mobile phone from anywhere.

Don't rush to sell the old cellphone! Tutorial of changing it into a home camera

You can use free apps like Manything, Presence, Salient Eye or Alfred to turn your old phone into a security camera.
Some of these applications are cross-platform, it doesn't matter whether your old phone is Android or OS. There are even higher resolution viewing and recording, zoom functions, advertisement deletion and 30 days of cloud storage. You can download this type of software on old and new phones or any tablet you want to use.

This requires your new phone and old phone to download the same software at the same time, log in to the same account, select the camera option on the old phone, the old phone will only be used as a camera, the entire process is very simple, follow The software guide step setting is just fine.

Don't rush to sell the old cellphone! Tutorial of changing it into a home camera

On iOS, you can only enable motion detection, choose between front and rear cameras and enable or disable audio. If you are using an Android device, you can use these options, you can also enable the continuous focus function, and let the security camera software automatically reopen when the phone restarts, set the resolution and enable password lock.


On the new phone, you can change more settings, such as opening the notification on or ff, setting the camera or viewer name, adding others to your family members, or removing the camera, checking the number of times the camera is disconnected, Set the motion detection sensitivity and enable the low-light filter on the camera, etc.

Don't rush to sell the old cellphone! Tutorial of changing it into a home camera

Step 2: Choose a location to place the camera

After the security camera software is up and running, you can consider where to put the camera according to your needs. You may want it to be placed at the main entrance of the house, where valuables are stored, or where you think security may be particularly vulnerable. You can also set the IP camera as a baby monitor.

If there are multiple old phones around, you can set up multiple cameras to get fairly powerful video coverage.


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Step 3: Install and power a new surveillance camera

To install or place the camera, a small smartphone tripod or suction cup car mount can play a role and help you place the camera in an inconspicuous place.

In order to broaden the field of vision, you can consider buying a wide-angle lens for mobile phones, the price is not expensive. It should also be noted that streaming video is very power hungry and the phone will be running 24/7. To prevent the phone from shutting down in the first few hours, you also need to place it close to the power source.
 
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