# Teaonly/android-eye

Change your android phone to surveillance camera

Repository: https://github.com/Teaonly/android-eye
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/android-eye
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2015-05-07T09:34:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5152, "days_push": 4136, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1085, forks 485 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:32.039695+00:00)

## What it is
An Android app that turns an old phone into a surveillance security camera, streaming H.264 video and G.726 audio over a built-in web server via websocket to any modern browser. It includes a pure-JavaScript H.264 decoder on the client side and planned motion detection features.

## Use cases
- turn an old android phone into a security camera
- view my phone camera feed from a pc browser
- stream video from android phone over wifi
- build a cheap home surveillance camera
- watch phone camera remotely on lan
- monitor a room with a spare android device

## When to choose
- you want to repurpose an old Android phone as a LAN-only IP camera
- you need browser-based viewing without installing client software
- you want an open-source (GPL v2) camera app to hack on

## When to avoid
- you need remote access over the internet (not supported)
- you need actively maintained software (last release 2015)
- you need reliable motion detection or alarm notifications (unfinished)
- you need a supported app store distribution

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: video-processing, streaming, websocket, http-server, computer-vision
- domain: android-tools, media, security, self-hosted
- platform: -
- tags: surveillance-camera, ip-camera, h264, g726, motion-detection, browser-streaming, android

## Member repositories
- Teaonly/android-eye (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:32.039695+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:49:41.938050+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Teaonly/android-eye (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:32.039695+00:00, sha 955a38dc28e5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.