Alfred

Alfred is an application for Android devices that turns your smartphone into a camera for external surveillance. This application is created for those users who need to make a quick and discreet video surveillance system in a particular room.

Purpose

Quite often people may need a surveillance camera in their home. Today, these reasons are looking after the servants, children left at home, the ability to make sure that everything is in order at home. However, a full-fledged video surveillance system is too expensive, requiring constant maintenance. Alfred app is a quick solution in this situation. The means of surveillance becomes an ordinary smartphone. Today, when new models are released with enviable regularity, many people have a few outdated, but perfectly working models at home. Such a smartphone connects to the application, then begins to record sound and video, you can also turn on the motion sensor, which will allow you to put the device in sleep mode, including recording only if there is movement in the room, for example, a child entered the room.

Settings and bugs

In order for everything to work correctly, you will need two Android devices, as well as mail in Gmail. The first device is used as a surveillance camera - an old smartphone. The second one is the user's regular phone, or another old smartphone, which will work as a means of playing back what the first smartphone is watching live. Also, a desktop device can be connected. Unfortunately, there are some faults in the process, which the developers are honest about. The video takes a long time to load, there is no sound, and also periodically there are interruptions with the connection of the application to Wi-Fi. In addition, when the phone is used for a long time, as a camera it gets very hot, and the battery quickly sits down. But the application has often helped users, allowing to fix offenses on the part of nannies, servants, or allowing you to introduce control over small children.

Features

• Converts an ordinary smartphone into a surveillance camera;
• Can be operated on multiple smartphones at once;
• View recordings both on another smartphone and on a desktop;
• Completely free app;
• Works with all current Android versions.