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Darshan — Your Phone, Your Eyes

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Turn any old Android phone into a remote camera.

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Turn any old Android phone into a remote camera.

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Turn your old Android phone into a remote camera! 📱🎥 Stream live video and audio, then view it from another phone or any web browser. The app runs as a foreground service and is being tested on older Android devices. We’re looking for early testers to help us improve reliability, battery usage, background operation, and compatibility across different Android versions. Give your unused phone a new purpose!

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Hey everyone! 👋 I had an old Android phone lying around doing nothing, so I thought—why not convert it into a reliable remote security/monitoring camera? The hardest part was definitely handling Android’s background camera/mic permissions, battery drain, and keeping the stream stable. Right now, the app is in closed beta testing. If you have a spare Android phone at home and want to try it out, I’d love your help! How would you use a setup like this? Would really appreciate feedback and use-case ideas, especially from fellow Android devs and early testers. for details you can visit : https://darshan.ginis.in/closed-...

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Can an old Android phone really replace a dedicated remote camera?

I started building Darshan when I found an old Android phone lying in a drawer and wondered if it could have a useful second life. The core idea is simple: turn the spare device into a remote camera and watch the live stream from any browser or secondary phone.

Turns out, opening the camera is the easy part. The real engineering headache is keeping the stream running 24/7 without getting killed by Android's background restrictions, handling battery thermal limits, managing network drops, and supporting older OS versions.

I d love to get thoughts from fellow developers and early adopters:

Would you actually repurpose an old phone as a dedicated camera?
What real-world use case would you set this up for (pet cam, doorstep monitor, 3D printer watch, shop counter)?
What bottlenecks would make you hesitate before trusting it for continuous monitoring?

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