MANYTHING APP: SECURE ANYTHING WITH MANYTHING !!

Do you have a spare Ios device at your home?

If yes here is ground breaking idea to convert your spare ios device into a free home monitoring camera in seconds. With live streaming, motion alerts, remote control and cloud recording it’s the easy way to watch your home when you’re away

Manything is a free app, with free cloud recording, and works with a device you may already have.

Manything is a free ios app that can convert your iphone,ipad touch or ipad into a security camera in under a  minute.

Then, you can use a second iOS device as your mobile monitor or opt to keep an eye on things from the Manything Web app. This is an incredibly convenient way to experiment with DIY security -- assuming you already have a spare iPhone, iPod, or ipad at home.

Manything isn’t a hardware solution at all — it’s an app. Free to download via iTunes, Manything makes itself available to just about any iDevice you have so long as its running iOS 6 or later. If you’ve got the hardware, you’ve got a home security camera.

How it works?

Install Manything on the device you’re using as your Manything camera, register and press record. Manything streams and records your video to the cloud so you can watch live from anywhere, review past footage and create clips to keep or share

When you select "Record using this device," that device turns into a DIY home security camera. Simply point it at the area you'd like to monitor and press the red "record" button. Since Apple products don't come with stands, you might have to get creative to position it correctly

install Manything on the device you take with you to watch your Manything cameras on the go, receive alerts and review motion events. You can also login online to manything.com to watch live, playback to any point in time and to create and share clips

one drawback is related with changing camera settings ie Currently, any device you use as a camera can only be reviewed or updated directly from that device. Basically, you are out of luck if you want to make a quick adjustment to the camera recording in your living room when you are at work -- settings are only accessible on the origin device.

Manything also connects to your smarthome via our new IFTTT channel. Trigger your Hue Light when Manything detects motion, automatically start your Manything camera recording when you leave home and more.

 With their IFTTT channel,Manythings makes sure you’ll be able to better automate your home automation! You can trigger your livestream, kick Manything on when your Nest smoke alarm goes off, and even stop streaming when you get home

Livestream is also a bit laggy, as it has to go through the cloud first. It didn’t miss a beat, but a ten second delay evident.

 According to the FAQ on the Manything site, continuous recording 24/7 will result in 14MBytes up to 140MBytes per hour (depending on the video quality setting). This translates to between 2.4GB and 23.5GB per week.

Since all the video is sent to the cloud and not stored on the device itself, you might be worried about the security of your recorded video, Manything explains it:

Videos are stored in Amazon Web Services ‘S3’, as used by many major corporations. Direct access to any of the videos is strictly controlled and requires multi-factor authentication – even our developers do not have access. Any access to a user’s video via the app or the web client is secured by the user’s password and a token which is granted by the authentication process but only lasts for a few minutes. User authentication and web communications are encrypted and user passwords hashed and salted using PBKDF2.

This app and service is for free,but this wont be free for long

 They are going to start implementing pricing plans before the end of the year. But, they say they will always offer a free plan and their paid plans are very affordable compared to cloud services offered by other companies. 

Manything doesn’t have any android version up till now but they are planning to have one in future.