Here's How to Make CCTV from Unused Used Cellphones
The camera on a smartphone is actually used to take pictures of objects or can also record various moments. In addition, you can also switch the function of the smartphone camera to the camera Closed Circuit Television or CCTV.
CCTV cameras are usually used to monitor conditions inside or outside the house. Do you know how to make CCTV with HP? If you don’t know, let’s continue reading the following review.
One of the advantages of CCTV from HP compared to conventional CCTV is that it is more flexible, mobile phones can be placed in all areas of the house easily.
So it’s not wrong for you to try this method if you have a used Android cellphone that is no longer used. Instead of being curious, let’s just go to the following steps.
How to make CCTV with a used cellphone
Things to Prepare
The first thing you need to prepare is an Android smartphone or iPhone that you don’t use anymore. Then, use your main cellphone to monitor the CCTV camera that has been made later.
Then prepare the adapter charger or power bank to charge smartphone. If using a charger, make sure the smartphone that will be used as CCTV is close to a power source.
Next, set up a new Google account or an account that you don’t use. This is to anticipate security issues related to privacy.
Make sure you also download the app Alfred Home Camera Security via the link that Dafunda Tekno has provided below. The application must be installed on both smartphones that have been prepared.
If all of the above is ready, the next step is how to make CCTV with the following cellphone.
Steps to Make CCTV with Android/iPhone HP
- Open the Alfred Home Camera Security app
The application is opened on the cellphone that you will use as CCTV
- Login using Google account
After logging into the Google account in the app, then tap icon Camera in the ‘I use this device as a’ page then tap ‘Get Started’
- After that, the CCTV phone will display the images captured by the camera.
Then place the phone where you want it.
- Make sure the phone is connected to the internet or WiFi network
So that monitoring will be active as long as the camera is on.
- How to Monitor CCTV Via Smartphone
To monitor the CCTV camera, you can do stream from another phone.
- Open the Alfred Home Camera Security app on mobile
Then use the same Google account as on the CCTV phone earlier, then tap on icon Viewers and tap knob Get Started.
- After the cellphone has been connected to the CCTV cellphone, your cellphone will display the resulting image from the CCTV cellphone.
You can also remotely control the CCTV cellphone.
Some other functions of the application, you can change the monitoring mode to (landscape/portrait)change camera mode (front/rear), turn on the LED light flash to activate the night mode.
In addition to using your cellphone to monitor the CCTV that you created earlier, you can also monitor CCTV via the https://alfred.camera/webapp site.
To monitor via the site, you simply log in using the email you used for the CCTV phone earlier.
In addition, you can also remotely control the CCTV camera phone, such as turning on the LED flash via this site monitoring Alfred Home Security Camera.