Thread: E cat safe placement

Originally Posted by 308

There are cellphone apps out that can use a cellphone as the alarm

I've got this pretty roughly from a mate who is actually in the know but it goes kinda like this-

1 Buy cheap cellph on prepay with ok camera

2 Install security app and set it up (needs to be in coverage area obv)

3 Leave in wardrobe/garage/shed like a cross between a PIR and a game camera - anything that crosses the cameras field of view will generate a series of picture texts from the phone straight to your phone

If I have got it right you can text a code to the phone to switch it off when you are accessing that area and arm it again

It would need to stay plugged in on permanent charge and if some thief knows it's there and hides his face or you are a long way away it isn't so good but it might be the right sort of deal for someone seeing as us NZers are so notoriously tight hahaha

TL;DR Can do monitored alarm with a cheap prepay

Sounds like an interesting idea, how does the phone detect movement in the camera screen? Name of the app?