Does the light in the fridge really turn off when you close the door? A good project to give an old iPhone with a good camera app a new task.
Naturally, we have chosen this almost philosophical question only as a substitute for meaningful monitoring tasks: So if you have an old iPhone lying around and want to monitor a garden shed or your dogs when you’re not at home, then the interaction of an iPhone and the camera software AlfredCamera is a wonderful combination.
AlfredCamera is free to download from the App Store and must find its way to both your iPhone. One is set so that the iPhone represents the camera (in our case the 5s in the fridge), the other shows the streamed image. To be able to use the functions you have to log in with a Google account which will connect both phones. Of course you don’t have to take your main account, just create a new one and use it only for this purpose.
iPhone as security camera.
In the free version you only get a 240p stream, but that’s only fair and sufficient for such handicraft stories or for an every-now-and-then use. After all, motion detection and recording in the cloud is already included. If you would like to have HD resolution and further functions because you would like to use an iPhone as a real security camera, then the subscription costs you around $30 per year. If you can live with the 240p resolution (maybe because you are constantly on the move and your mobile network is slow anyway), you can buy yourself free of the advertising for a lifetime for around $20.
In any case, the free version is already super practical and the price for the improvements offered very fair. To answer the actual question: yes, the light in our fridge actually goes out (and even the Wifi connection to the iPhone remains). Of course, this doesn’t mean that your fridge behaves the same – we’d rather check that to be sure – you know the right app now.
