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Homeye
Your old Android phone, as a home camera. No cloud.
Homeye turns the Android phone in your drawer into a home camera you watch from your everyday phone. Both sit on the same Wi-Fi and stream directly to each other over WebRTC. No account, no cloud in the middle, no ads, no analytics SDK. It also tells you the truth. When the picture freezes it says so and why. When it lowers quality because the phone is hot, it tells you that too. Honest limit: LAN-only, so no remote viewing on mobile data. Free, 6.7 MB, Android 7+.
Maker here. I built this because every "use your old phone as a camera" app I tried wanted an account and routed my living room through its cloud. Homeye keeps the two phones talking directly on the LAN, over WebRTC. No account, no server of mine in the path, no ads, no analytics SDK.
The parts that took the longest were not features:
- Knowing when it is dead. Neither Camera2 nor WebRTC tells you the picture stopped, so both ends count frames themselves and the viewer shows "frozen" with a reason instead of a stale image.
- Saying why quality dropped. It steps down on battery temperature and level and says so on both screens, with thresholds calibrated on real phones rather than guessed.
- Surviving vendor ROMs. There is no reliable way, so instead of a watchdog that silently fails there is a stability check that lists the switches your ROM uses to kill background apps and walks you to each one.
The honest trade-off: no remote viewing when you are out on mobile data. I would rather ship that limitation clearly than add a relay I cannot run without collecting something. I would love to hear whether that trade-off works for you, and what you would need before pointing it at your own home.
About Homeye on Product Hunt
“Your old Android phone, as a home camera. No cloud.”
Homeye was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. Homeye turns the Android phone in your drawer into a home camera you watch from your everyday phone. Both sit on the same Wi-Fi and stream directly to each other over WebRTC. No account, no cloud in the middle, no ads, no analytics SDK. It also tells you the truth. When the picture freezes it says so and why. When it lowers quality because the phone is hot, it tells you that too. Honest limit: LAN-only, so no remote viewing on mobile data. Free, 6.7 MB, Android 7+.
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Who hunted Homeye?
Homeye was hunted by Jerome Liee. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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