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Wireless Security Camera System with Raspberry Pi & Android

Turn your Raspberry Pi and old Android phones into a security camera and monitor it from an IoT platform!

In this tutorial we will explore how to make a wireless home security camera system using Raspberry Pis and/or old Android phones. This guide will show you how some inexpensive or unused hardware can help watch your back. This project is best used with multiple cameras to help you monitor all areas of your house.

There are many tutorials on how to use your Raspberry Pi as a webcam server, but I found this tutorial on Instructables really helpful and easy to follow. They explain the process much better than I can, but any procedure that allows you to view feed my typing in an IP address is good.”

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