Old Bird

An IP webcam for Android that turns a spare phone into a private LAN security camera.

Coming soon on Google Play

What it does

• MJPEG video stream, configurable resolution and quality
• Raw PCM audio stream (16 kHz mono)
• Built-in browser viewer — just open the phone's address on any laptop on your Wi-Fi
• RTSP for VLC, Frigate, Scrypted, ffmpeg
• HTTP Basic Auth with a per-device password; IP allowlist defaults to RFC 1918 private networks
• Lazy lifecycle — camera and microphone only run while a viewer is connected
• On-device recording to MP4 segments

Why

Old phones make great stationary cameras: decent sensors, always plugged in, already on Wi-Fi. Old Bird makes the phone the host of its own stream, so there is no cloud account, no vendor app, and no port forwarding. LAN-only by design.