How to Use Your Smartphone as a Webcam for Your Computer

Why Use Your Phone As A Webcam?

Your children want to chat with their grandparents over Skype. Or perhaps it’s your boss, wanting a teleconference to discuss that report you submitted.

But you don’t have a webcam.

Although they come built into many monitors and all-in-one PCs, not everyone has a webcam. Peripheral webcams are popular, but they can prove tricky to install and temperamental even when they’re set up correctly.

or your laptop web cam is not so good. 

You also use it as a cc tv camera.

How Use Your Phone As A Webcam?

 There are some apps in playstore like DroidCam (Free/Premium), IP Webcam (Free/Premium).

How Use IP WebCam ?

in mobile

1. From android market in your phone, install IP Webcam.
2. Open the app and you will get the configuration screen where you can set the options for port, sound, video quality and username/password.
3. The default options are good enough, so scroll down and click on he "Start server" option.

 

Ip Webcam will now open your camera and start streaming the video to a particular IP address and port. Click on the "How do I connect" button appearing on the top left  and choose "I'm using Wi-fi router" to get this IP address and port. You will get some thing like "http://10.42.43.89:8080".

In computer 

Note thisabove address down and type it in your PC web browser. You will get a page with links for various ways in which you can use your new webcam. From the list, you need to use either of the two links.

if it donot work, install adb installer in your pc

• Connect to PC for use with Skype and other videochats on Windows.

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