WatchCat

WatchCat - yet another Android Remote Surveillance Camera app.

Features and Limitations

Features

• Based on a modified version of https://github.com/fyhertz/libstreaming
  • Android builtin Hardware Acceleration Video Encoding
  • H264 & AAC Encoding
  • Upto 1080p Video Streaming
• Automatic Service Discovery within the same LAN
• Play through Google ExoPlayer

Limitations

• The screen will be kept ON during streaming and standing by
  • App will set the "brightness" close to 0 to mitigate this issue
  • I believe this is due to the Android system level policy. Personally, I haven't figured out a way to capture and to stream the video fully on background with screen off, if you know how to do this, please let me know ;)

Screenshots

Tested Devices

• [Android 10] Teclast T30 (tablet) (via treble_experimentations)
• [Android 10] Xiaomi Mi 8 Lite
• [Android 9] Teclast T30 (tablet)
• [Android 8] Redmi 5 Plus

Use of other Open Source Projects

• libstreaming https://github.com/fyhertz/libstreaming
• NsdHelper https://github.com/rafakob/NsdHelper
• fastjson https://github.com/alibaba/fastjson
• ExoPlayer https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer
• NanoHttpd https://github.com/NanoHttpd/nanohttpd
• Dexter https://github.com/Karumi/Dexter
• FloatingActionButtonSpeedDial https://github.com/leinardi/FloatingActionButtonSpeedDial
• PinLockView https://github.com/aritraroy/PinLockView
• EventBus https://github.com/greenrobot/EventBus