Turn your Cell Phone as Webcam

Before start reading the post make sure you have few things and then read further..

Read it if you have 1. Computer 2. Android Phone. If you have these two things then read further.

Today many apps are being made so that they can establish a link between computer and android phone. There are many applications which let your computer do such things which are done with mobile in a handy way.

We will be introducing today as how to make your cell phone's camera into a webcam and use that with your computer. If you Google it, you will come across many apps but here is one of the most simple way to do this. 

First download few things

1. IP webcam (Download and install this in your Android Phone)

2. IP camera adapter (Download and install this in your computer)

3. Firefox or Chrome (Optional, if you wish you can download either of this browser on your android phone)

Now Since we have all these things with us, so lets start.

Step 1: Install IP Webcam application on your android mobile phone and also install the IP Camera Adapter on your PC.

Step 2: Then open the installed IP Camera app on your phone after it you will many options like username, password, screen resolution and many more which you can adjust according to your choice. After doing so just click on the Start Server.

Here the default camera setting is preferred for better quality.

Step 3: Then click on the start server and after that you will see a IP (A no. written as XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, where nos. are there in place of X) at the bottom of mobile's screen. Now open this IP in your mobile's Chrome or Firefox browser. If you have not installed these browser on your android mobile then select Browser built-in viewer option.

Step 4: Open the installed IP camera adapter on your PC. And in the "Camera feed URL" just enter your IP and port which you got from the app you installed on your phone and remember to add /videofeed and then click on Autodetect.

    example on how to enter: Let I got no. as 192.168.1.102:8080. This means that my IP is 127.2.35.250  and port no. is 8080. To enter this in camera adapter I will type as http://192.168.1.102:8080/videofeed

Step 5 : That's it your are done. Open any video conferencing application or site on your PC like Skype, Facebook, Google+ and you will see the video streaming on your PC from your android mobile phone.

Hope you enjoyed it a lot!!!

Author: Unpredictable

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