I happen to have an extra android cell phone that I am not using and thought I may be able to use it as a surveillance camera for the house/office or in the car.
For some reason, I cannot find an app that will do this via the cell phone data plan and/or via a wifi intErnet connection.
1) all/most of the apps that use wifi need the receiving computer/cell phone to be on the same wifi-network with the sending cell phone... but I would like be able to see the home even when I am at work or traveling.
2) non seem to be able to stream video when connected via cell data plan.
3) ideally, the app should have motion detection and autocapture/autosave and cloud back up options... no point in having a surveillance camera in your car/house, possibly getting to see the thieve in action, as he steals the camera... and than having no records to give the police.
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Ok here goes,
Is there Any way i can use a wi-fi camera
(webcam sized preferably with night vision) which i can use for surveillance and stream the live video directly onto my android phone without any intermediaries like routers and internet and stuff....
any apps out there that can do it, kind of like the web cam is on tether mode which makes it a hotspot (secured ofcourse) and we use our phone application to connect on to it, and get the live video
just a direct connection from the wi-fi cam to my phone, Thats it
Is it possible,
If no what are the other ways i can get around it
Thanks
Does anyone know of an app that you can use to track your phone without an active data/internet connection? Basically something that can run on GPS only. I have a Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 which does not have SMS/Calling/3g/4g etc... All it has is Wifi and GPS. I would like to somehow be able to track my location if I am not in a wifi hotspot. The other downside is I use the lock screen on the phone. If someone steals it chances are it could be quite some time before the phone would actually connect to a network (considering there wouldn't be any way for them to get to the wifi settings to log into a network).
Does anyone know of anything like this? Is it possible?
Wont be possible without either data/internet connection or cell/texting service. GPS will show the location on the device, but you have to transmit that somehow.
GPS is purely passive, you don't send anything and neither do satelites transmit something specific to you.
You just grab what ever signals you can find, and if its enough calculate the current position.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
Is it possible to have a Local WiFi Hotspot? I have a Galaxy S5 with Verizon. Ever since I upgraded I have been struggling on a 6gb data plan. I own an iPad and an Apple TV and wanted to do wireless airplay for presentations. Of course Apple TV requires a WiFi connection to airplay so I was wondering if there was a way to make a local wifi hotspot on a device without using the internet? It would be like having a wireless router that isn't plugged into a modem. I have never seen this brought up before so I figured I might as well see if it is even possible. What do you guys think?Am I crazy for wanting a local hotspot or does this peak anyone interest to explore?
sake40 said:
Is it possible to have a Local WiFi Hotspot? I have a Galaxy S5 with Verizon. Ever since I upgraded I have been struggling on a 6gb data plan. I own an iPad and an Apple TV and wanted to do wireless airplay for presentations. Of course Apple TV requires a WiFi connection to airplay so I was wondering if there was a way to make a local wifi hotspot on a device without using the internet? It would be like having a wireless router that isn't plugged into a modem. I have never seen this brought up before so I figured I might as well see if it is even possible. What do you guys think?Am I crazy for wanting a local hotspot or does this peak anyone interest to explore?
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is is possible to have the hotspot running on the phone and data turned off, but i dont know what effect that would have on other transfers through the wifi.
only reason i know this is because i just started using ds battery saver app the other day, and i use the hotspot on my phone a lot. i have it set to turn off mobile data when the phone is off, well this poses a problem as the hotspot is still broadcasting but i have no internet connection. fortunately the developer had already thought of this (for streaming music etc, same issue) and put an adjustable bandwidth sensor on the app, so it wont cut off data when the screen turns off is there is a certain amount of transfer present.
i kinda went a little off your topic, but i thought it relevant to explain how i know it is possible for the nay sayers.
bweN diorD said:
is is possible to have the hotspot running on the phone and data turned off, but i dont know what effect that would have on other transfers through the wifi.
only reason i know this is because i just started using ds battery saver app the other day, and i use the hotspot on my phone a lot. i have it set to turn off mobile data when the phone is off, well this poses a problem as the hotspot is still broadcasting but i have no internet connection. fortunately the developer had already thought of this (for streaming music etc, same issue) and put an adjustable bandwidth sensor on the app, so it wont cut off data when the screen turns off is there is a certain amount of transfer present.
i kinda went a little off your topic, but i thought it relevant to explain how i know it is possible for the nay sayers.
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I just tried it out and I can get the hotspot to activate with data on and then go turn data off and it won't automatically turn off my hotspot. I will have to try it with the Apple TV in a few days and see how well it works.
Hi,
Recently I purchased LG 360 cam, and I have a few questions about it that I can’t seem to find the answer for.
1) The camera connects to a smartphone via Wi-Fi. But why Bluetooth needs to be turned on too?
2) Once I established the connection with phone and camera, I can’t seem to use any data connection (both home wi-fi network and cellular network), is that normal?
Would appreciate if anyone can help out a noob here.
Thanks
I have the 360 camera as well. I think it uses wifi to live stream what the camera captures and also do data transfer between the two. Bluetooth I'm guessing is more like for the camera actions. Snap photo video and what not. Haven't figured out yet if there's a way to keep data accessible while using the cam. That would only be possible if the phone could simultaneously use wifi and your carriers network at the same time. Which I don't think it's possible.
So this has been one of the annoyances I've had with android for awhile but never really put any research in to it to know if its normal, or more so - why this would be normal. If I want to connect to certain devices that run as a wifi hotspot, but don't provide internet access - android does not appear to use those connections. The workaround seems to be to disable cell data and then I can connect to the device. Currently on a Nexus 6p on 7.1.1. The wifi will connect, but i can't hit the device unless I wack cell data. I guess really the two questions that matter are 1) is this normal? and 2) is there a workaround? Tried it on the fiance's iphone and it works without issue.
-Chris