Homeye
Your old Android phone, as a home camera. No cloud.
Details
- External ID
- 1254864
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Homeye
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Android, Privacy, Home security
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Homeye turns the Android phone in your drawer into a home camera you watch from your everyday phone. Both sit on the same Wi-Fi and stream directly to each other over WebRTC. No account, no cloud in the middle, no ads, no analytics SDK. It also tells you the truth. When the picture freezes it says so and why. When it lowers quality because the phone is hot, it tells you that too. Honest limit: LAN-only, so no remote viewing on mobile data. Free, 6.7 MB, Android 7+.
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and device utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local home security camera app for old android phones
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A simple camera streamer can be built, but creating a reliable zero-cloud, direct local WebRTC streaming Android app that handles device sleep, hardware video encoders, and network reconnects requires native Android and networking expertise.
What it would actually take: The app requires native Android development (Kotlin) interacting with CameraX and the Android MediaCodec subsystem for hardware H.264/VP8 encoding. The core engineering hurdles involve zero-cloud signaling over local Wi-Fi (using mDNS/NSD), peer-to-peer WebRTC connection management across variable local networks, and preventing Android OS battery management from aggressively killing background streaming services.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 136 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #65 of 137 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 299 days after the earliest competitor.
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- OffgridCam · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Device Manager · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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