WATCH Room Camera

Use an old phone as a room camera

Leave a phone watching a room, a pet, a 3D print or a doorway, and see it live on your computer. It can snapshot anything that moves. No app, no subscription, nothing stored online.

Movement alertsHear the roomRecord clipsNothing uploaded
Open this on your computer

Use My Phone connects your phone to a computer, so the code you scan has to be on the other screen. Open this page there and you are paired in about ten seconds.

usemyphone.com/room-camera
Email myself the link

Nothing to install on either device, and every tool is free.

Scan to start
Ten seconds, then pick any tool
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Pets & deliveries

Point a spare phone at the hallway and keep half an eye on it while you work.

Workshops & printers

Watch a long 3D print or a machine running without standing over it.

Private by design

The video goes straight from that phone to this computer. We never see it, and nothing is stored in a cloud.

In real use

What people use it for

The jobs this tool actually does, in enough detail to tell whether it fits yours.

Watching a 3D print or a long job

Glance at the corner of your screen instead of walking to the machine. Movement snapshots catch the moment a print starts failing.

Pets and deliveries

A spare phone on the hallway shelf shows you the front door and whoever is asleep in front of it.

A monitor for the nursery nap

Watch and listen from the computer while you work, with nothing stored online and the phone openly showing that it is sharing.

Workshops, sheds and side doors

Know when someone is at the unit's door while you are at the bench with your ears full of machine.

Keeping an eye on equipment

Kilns, brewing, chargers, dehydrators — snapshot on movement, record when something actually happens.

Questions

Is this a hidden camera?

No, deliberately. The phone shows a clear “camera is being shared” card the whole time it is running. We will not build a covert version.

Does it alert me to movement?

Yes. Switch on movement watching and your computer takes a snapshot whenever something changes, with three sensitivity levels.

Is the video stored anywhere?

No. It travels directly from the phone to your computer, encrypted. Recordings save to your computer only.

Also free from Use My Phone: send a PDF for signature — twenty documents a month where the usual free plan gives three, ten signers on each, and nobody you send to needs an account.

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