About this app

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Install SMSCamera App on a remote Android Smartphone.
Now control remote Smartphone's Camera to take a picture and upload the picture to your website just by sending an SMS from anywhere.

This App is really helpful for the following Scenarios:

1. Want to see what your baby sitter is doing now?.
Just place your smartphone with SMSCamera App in your baby's room.
Any time just send an SMS with the word "takepic" to your smartphone and get the picture uploaded to your public webiste.

2. You want to know what your teenager is upto?
Just have SMSCamera App installed on your teenager's smartphone and send an SMS with the word "takepic" to his/her smartphone and you can have his phone upload a picture of his surroundings to your Website.

3. You do not have a lot of memory to store huge video or pictures on your smartphone with continuous Video or Imagery monitoring Apps ?
SMSCamera does not store any pictures or videos on your phone.
The maximum storage required on your phone is maximum 1 MB for temporarily storing only one Image file before uploading to your Website.

3. Your smartphone screen can be locked and still your camera will take pictures and upload them to your Website with the receipt of ans SMS with "takepic" word in it.


Setting up your Smartphone and your Website to use SMSCamera App:

1. Install on SMSCamera App on the Smartphone from which you would like to get Pictures from.

2. Make sure the Smartphone's Wifi or Mobile Data is turned on since the smartphone will need to upload the Photos to your Website.

3. On your Website PHP/Perl or other language should be supported to place the upload.php script which is going to handle the uploading of images from your smartphone.

4. Put the following upload.php script in your WebServer public root directory:

============== upload.php: ========================

$file_path = "/home/www/public_html/photos/";
$pic_dir = '/home/www/public_html/photos/';
$index_html = "/home/www/public_html/photos/index.html";

unlink($index_html);
$file_path = $file_path . basename( $_FILES['imgfile']['name']);
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['imgfile']['tmp_name'], $file_path) ){
echo "success";
} else{
echo "fail";
}

if($dh = opendir($pic_dir)) {
while( ($line = readdir($dh)) !== false ) {
file_put_contents($index_html, "" . $line . "" . "
", FILE_APPEND);
}
}
closedir($dh);
?>

5. After Opening your SMSCamera App you need to set the location of your upload.php and click the "Ok" button.
e.g: http://www.yourdomain.com/upload.php

6. Send an SMS to the smartphone from any other phone containing the text: takepic
This will trigger the smartphone to take a picture using the Primary Camera and
upload the Photo to your WebSite.

7. Your smartphone pictures can the be viewed at say for
e.g: http://www.yourdomain.com/photos/

New features

Receives SMS to Control Smartphone's Camera.
Stores Website URL in file smscamurl.txt in local directory.
Uses code: takepic in SMS message to initiate picture taking.
Uploads Reduced Image size of actual photo to your Website.
SMSCamera can take photo even when screen is in sleeping mode.
Works On: Samsung S3, Samsung J7 Prime, Micromax Canvas Nitro2

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to receive SMS messages.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.