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I was running mine 24/7 for weeks. I had the battery swelling on a Droid DNA and a Nexus 4.
If you don't need the extra features that the webcam app offers, you could try something like "RTSP Camera Server" because it is creating an h.264 stream. It could potentially generate less heat on a newer phone that supports h.264 encoding.
Same here. I blew up my Nexus 4 and an HTC Droid DNA. Also damaged my Nexus 4 screen but I think it was from the pressure of the ballooning battery and not the heat itself.
OP, don't do this unless you're going to mod the phone to run without a battery.
If you're going to do it anyway, for your uses I would run the latest SlimRom. You might also use 'RTSP Camera Server' because it uses the hardware h264 encoder instead of maxxing out the cpu for mjpeg video like Pavel Khlebovich's 'IP Webcam' does. It has very few features compared to IP Webcam, but the picture quality is better and it's easier on the phone hardware.
RTSP is the key term you're missing:
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miv.rtspcamera&hl=en_US
A windows software that may be helpful is Genius Vision. Their "Community" version is free but not open source as far as I can tell. I use it with my not exactly cheap IP camera and it's not exactly simple, but it does motion detecting. I'm just throwing it in the mix in case you or someone else can benefit from it.
You could probably use an android app like RTSP Camera Server and use Genius Vision to record the RTSP stream.
Yes, install and RTSP-Streamer like this on the phones and then add them in Shinobi like regular cams
No you can't. But you can use your phone in tinycam by using this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miv.rtspcamera