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How to set up your old phone as a home security camera. Here's how

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You can turn your old phone into a free, effective indoor home security camera.

Download Alfred ( Android , iOS) on both your old and new phones.

Alfred is free to use and gives you a remote view of your live feed, motion detection with alerts.

After you have the stream up and running, you will need to set up and position the camera.

If your old phone is still online when you're using it as a security camera, that's a problem.

We recommend wiping any personal data off the phone before you transform it into a camera.

Consider giving the phone a final use-by date, after which you'll recycle it.

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