I also had some echo, but that’s just because both phones were in the same room. There’s no such long delay for the “Talk” function, and it’s almost instantaneous. The framerate and bitrate are the same in this mode. If you are at home while monitoring the camera, you can enable LAN mode, which won’t rely on the cloud, and “LAN” string is shown under the video (bottom right). The framerate (11 fps)and bitrate (~55 KB/s) are rather low, and there was a 4 to 5 seconds delay when I used eWelink camera app.
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Everything appears to go through the cloud by default, so your audio and video goes to some servers, and it’s not a peer-to-peer connection. You can decided to mute the incoming audio, and press a button to talk through your old phone. You can tap on eWelink Camera 0… and within a few seconds it will connect to your old phone, show the camera output, and stream audio from your old smartphone as well. Your new camera will be automatically detected by the app. Let’s now switch to eWelink app in your main phone. Your old phone cannot have eWelink and eWelink Camera apps installed at the same time, so you may have to remove eWelink app first. Once it’s done just pointed to the subject / area you want to monitor.
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Once the app is installed, you’ll need to login with your eWelink credentials, and accept requests to use the camera and record audio in your phone.
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First you need to download & install eWelink Camera app, only available as an apk at this time, in your old phone. It looked easy enough to setup, so I gave it a try. So if you’re using the stock firmware on your Sonoff device and control them with the Sonoff app, you don’t need an extra app to use your old smartphone(s) as IP camera(s). For example, we’ve previously covered Haven open source app that transforms smartphones into smart security cameras or baby monitors.ĮWelink, the default app used with Sonoff wireless switches, smart plugs and light-bulbs, now happens to support a similar feature. Old devices often end up in drawers or shelves collecting dust, but as we’ve seen before there are better ways to recycle your unused gadgets, from giving it to friends or family to selling them on eBay, or re-purposing them for specific purpose.