The CCTV Camera and Monitor app is perfect for those who want a simple and affordable security solution. You can set up an old phone as a baby cam, nanny cam, pet cam, webcam, or IP camera. You can focus it on the main entry point to your home, your backyard, parking lot, or the place where you store valuables.
Setting up your video surveillance system with the CCTV Camera and Monitor app is easy and requires no hard skills. You can create your own video surveillance system in just five minutes, and all the features are available at zero cost. With this app, you can save money and take advantage of its features.
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Set one phone as a monitoring device and the others as IP cameras
A phone-based camera is useful as a temporary or secondary sensor
A spare smartphone can provide a surprisingly capable network video source because it already contains a camera, microphone, Wi-Fi interface and battery. Its weakness is not image quality but operating stability: thermal throttling, background-task restrictions, charging and Wi-Fi roaming can interrupt a long-running stream. It is therefore better suited to temporary monitoring, testing or low-criticality locations than to the only camera protecting an important area.
Use standard streams when possible
When a mobile-camera app exposes RTSP or another standard stream, it can be treated much like an IP camera by surveillance software. SmartVision can then monitor or record the stream alongside fixed cameras. See RTSP Camera and Home Security for related scenarios.