Cheap (free) monitoring camera

I was about to buy a baby monitor so I can take bathroom breaks without too much stress and decided to hit the android play store first instead. There’s an app called alfred camera that lets you link 2 phones together and use 1 as a security camera, and I seem to have an abundance of old phones in my drawer. So I repurposed an old S5, loaded the app on the old and my current phone and it works. There’s a web interface also, it works on my PC. And it’s free.

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Nice to know. Thanks!

Mentioned here as a way to add a camera to the Lowrider? Since you mentioned it, now I want to add a camera mount to my LR3 to capture the moments.

Should workfor anything. I just made a quick holder snd screwed it to the table.

Quite possibly the finest 10 minutes of design work in history.

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Instead of an oval, you have to do the rounded rectangle like old TVs. Can’t beat 10 mins though.

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THIS ^^^^^^

I am going to be using my old S7 as a touch screen controller, so now it will have dual functions using this camera app. Thanks for the tip!!

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