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What you can do with Freedomotic

Security & Video surveillance

Here a quick solution to create an IP camera for video surveillance by “recycling” an old smartphone / tablet Android you no longer use.

You only need the app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam&hl=it

After its installation go to settings and if you decide to leave the default values (no password set) just select the last option Flow Start. At this point you will see the video stream directly on the screen and the URL to open in your browser: something like http://ip-smartphone:8080.

Install the IP Camera motion plugin and open cameras.xml file to set the correct ip address.

For example:

<ipcam name="Tablet" url="http://192.168.0.101:8080/video" mode="push"/>

Now the stream captured by the DIY camera is redirected to the plugin so you can detect any motion and execute one or more commands e.g. sending a notification).