Palm Guard turns your old phone into a security camera

    The security market is a rigid demand market. The overseas cloud camera Dropcam is gaining popularity, and domestic security cameras are also springing up like mushrooms after rain. Just talking about the big companies, Baidu has iEyes, Lenovo has HomeGuard, and 360 has launched HomeGuard. However, if you want to enjoy smart security life, you have to spend money. Recently, I found a very interesting mobile application product called Palm HomeGuard, which can transform old mobile phones, old tablets, laptops, TV set-top boxes and other devices at home into security cameras.

    I tried it with my phone. I first downloaded the Palm Butler App on my old phone, logged in, registered, and obtained a unique ID. Then I downloaded the matching App Palm Home on my regular phone, added the camera ID manually or by scanning a code, and then I could receive the video data transmitted from my old phone in real time. Currently, the Palm Home mobile viewing terminal supports mobile phones, Pads, and PCs, and supports Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.

    Nowadays, smart devices are frequently updated and replaced. It seems that most young people have many devices with cameras at home. So I think this idea of ​​"reusing old things" is really great. Products like Dingding smart door magnets, which we reported earlier, are very suitable for connecting to the palm home security system.

    However, in practice, I feel that there should be some problems. One is that the monitoring effect of these non-professional cameras at night will not be very good; the other is that mobile phones and laptops are not devices specifically used to record videos, which may accelerate the aging of these electronic devices.