[Music] SelmaTeacher7, Mr. Berry here, today I want to look into using older smartphones and
turning them to a home security system so let's get started with the lesson
now I'd like to add at this time that no one is paying me to create this video I feel that it's
a really great way to turn your own cell phones into a great home security network for free so
let me go over the requirements first any Android phones that have Android OS 2.3 and up basically
this is most smartphones made after 2010. be able to connect to your home Wi-Fi and have at least
one working camera for Apple phones have iOS 8 or newer be able to connect to your home Wi-Fi and
have at least one good working camera and now for the good stuff which app will we be using
we'll be using the Alfred home security camera as seen here now let me show you how to install that
okay what you want to do is find the Play store and then go ahead and click it and that'll bring
up the Play Store then you want to do a search for Alf or Alfred as soon as you type in aof you'll
see it go ahead and click on Alfred security camera you know come up now just click on install
and then accept
and then it will be downloading after it downloads it will then need to be installed as it does here
automatically after it finishes installing go ahead and click on the green open Button
and you'll open up into this window here it'll give you some suggestions on how to
mount your camera but I'll give you some too make sure you do log into your same Google
account on any of your devices and it does have really good motion detection too that you can
change the sensitivity on now on this screen here go ahead and click on the start button
and then choose to set up this device as either the viewer or the camera
now you need to log into your Google account and make sure that it's the same Google account on the
PC as well as the cell phone so step one is to point this camera at where you want to monitor
step number two install Alfred on another device such as a Chromebook another cell phone or even
a Windows PC select it as the viewer and then log into the same Gmail account then view it on
your computer or your cell phone now to do that simply go to the website listed there
and then on the cell phone this being the camera you want to go ahead and click on to save power
and it turns off the LED screen and allows you to use your camera as a security phone
with motion detection so let's try this out I typed in alfred.camera and let's see if the
camera is a little hey there they are and if I want to look at one of these here you can then
click it it'll show you the live image there so I raise my hand there it is so that's working
if I go to this one and if I raise my hand on this one you can see it
let's click on this one here here and yep yep that works
now let me show you what some of these icons mean
um if you've been using it for a while it'll record motion detection and that type of thing
and so any of the events will be recorded and left here for you so then you can click it here
and let's just see this event there you go this is one of my night classes and it does see very
well at night time so as you can see there of course audio and you can see in low light not
in total darkness but if you as long as you have some type of light in the room it'll
pick it up very well as seen here so let me show you a demonstration with the lights out
and then I click on the moon here so there we go there we go
so as we can see here the camera named Sky number four is using the low level
filter so let's click there so let me show you these other icons down here the first one is a
snapshot if you click it it takes a snapshot and saves the image down on your hard drive
this will do a video recording and remember it will automatically do the video recording for
you whenever it detects motion and that might be anywhere between a five second
or even a 35 second video that you can then View later you can rotate the image
and then if your smartphone has a flashlight you can turn it on so they go turn off the low
light filter turn off the flashlight there we go goes back to dark and you can turn on the
low light filter by the way the low light filter on my other phones that I've been working with
already for the last few nights works great just like you see here you can switch the camera to
because most smartphones have a forward-facing and a rear-facing camera so if we click that
now it's facing the other way so you can actually put one of these smartphones in
the middle of the room and look at a 360 wide view of your room this is full screen or not
and you can zoom in or zoom out and then you can also exit to view your other smartphones
point of view this very first icon here if I click it it shows you how many times was your
camera disconnected so if you're having issues with your network or if your camera turns off
for any reason it will show here of when it was off and this is why they recommend that
your smartphone always be plugged into power so it never runs out of power while it's working as
a security camera and this icon is anytime when it records motion detection as you saw earlier
now if you're viewing these on another cell phone you also have an icon that looks like a microphone
at the bottom of the screen you click that speak into it and then your voice will be broadcasted
to wherever the security camera is so that's a nice feature now the two ways that I've been using
to mount my smartphones is one by using a simple plate holder like you see here phone sits in there
stays up another way is to use a cup but you must remember to put a sock in it that way the
phone will sit up properly and not sink down too far into the cup well now you know how to turn a
smartphone into a security camera please give this video a thumbs up subscribe to my channel
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