Android as webcam

Hello, I don’t have a webcam and I am not planning to have one. however I have an old android device which has pretty good camera, I thought why not make use of it. so I did some research and found out that yes it is possible to stream your camera to your PC. you just have to download DroidCam and setup the IP address of your android device. now type the IP address of your android device on your favorite browser. boom now you can access your mobiles camera in your browser and not only that you can also use it as your PC’s webcam using obs studio.

now, this was just beginning imagine if you can use your android device as CCTV camera. yes you can. here is an Android app which you can use to stream videos to your other device (https://github.com/Ruddle/RemoteCam). let me tell you how I did it. so first of all I installed the apk and started it, it displayed a url from which I can access it on my local network, however this days you should be able to access it from anywhere right? yes, you can! I just setup a reverse proxy to proxy the stream from my Android device to my server from where I can access it anywhere, but wait, sharing your home’s video to the internet is dumb, so I set a password to access the url: https://video.ghodawalaaman.xyz

that was it, thank you for reading this and hope you learned something new today <3