How to transform an old mobile into an electronic Judas for your home

Do you have an Android at home without using and that deserves a second life? I propose to make it an electronic Judas for the door of your house: with a few steps, you will have everything ready to See who strikes the door without having to get up. Even if you are not at home.

Each smartphone can have an expiration date from which it becomes slow to use it daily, but will continue to keep the skills for Enjoy a second life. For example, an old phone can be a multimedia center, it is perfect as a surveillance camera, it can become vigilabebes, alarm clock … and in an electronic Judas. As is.

Place an Android at the front door and you already have an electronic judas

It is really not as easy as putting the phone and already, because you will surely have to be anchored at the door and have the system ready to connect to the mobile each time you need it. Even so, it is an excellent way that an old Android leaves the bottom of this drawer where it raises the dust: with a few steps, you will be ready. You just need that Mobile has a camera, which works properly And this can connect to the Wi -Fi network of your home.

Prepons the anchor. I put the phone on the door with a vertical support attached with a double -sided resistant adhesive. I calculated the site while trying that The main rear bedroom will be online with door judas: The clearer the vision the vision. And I finished adjusting the whole with a velcro strip to be easy to remove the mobile to load it. Ready.

Once the mobile is placed at the door, and after making sure that it will not fall from its position, you are already half done: if you are at home, you just have to light the screen and open the application of the camera, you will see the image of the landing. But the right thing about the use of mobile is that you can use its connectivity functions to See who strikes the door even if you are not at home. For this, I opted for Rustdesk, an office at a very simple distance.

Once Rustdesk is installed on the mobile that manufactures Judas and on your personal smartphone, and after ensuring that one, you can connect to the other (you just have to open the application on the door phone, copy the code and paste it in the Rustddesk application of your personal phone), the process is finished: you already have an electronic judgment with a remote visualization.

Mobile made of electronic Judas can be used in two ways:

• If you are at home. When someone calls the light, the phone screen and opens the camera application.
• When you are far from home. Connect to Judas with Rustdesk and open the camera application from the remote office.

For the Tinglado set to work the old mobile, the old mobile must be loaded, it must have Wi-Fi connectivity and be firmly fixed at the door. In addition, you must configure Rustdesk with a permanent password: you will have remote access as long as you wish. And everything works better than it seems, even You can save remotely when someone knocks on the door. To do this, you must take into account legality.

What is legal and what is not in digital Judas

If your house is a single family home and the angle of vision of Judas It does not reach the outside of your farmThere is no major problem: you can use the phone. In the event that you live on a floor and / or the concentration chamber in a public zone, you will have to comply with the General Data Protection Regulations and the Horizontal Protection Act.

Essentially, you will need the district community to approve the use of electronic Judas. Also, and if you want to use the recording, You must comply with the Data Protection Act; This implies placing an area warning studied video, keeping the records for 30 days and eliminating those that meet these deadlines.

Cover image | Iván Linares

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