Facetime Home Surveillance Setup
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Here is a cool trick to use Facetime to actively monitor the activities at your home from anywhere in the world where you can make Facetime Calls. This is made possible by Apple after they introduced Facetime on Mac.
All you need to do is , setup your MAC computer to receive calls from your phone automatically when a call is being made . It will receive the call from your iphone 4 or iPod touch 4 with Facetime feature enabled , and then transmit videos from the Mac stationed at your house where you want to monitor. This setup requires no purchase of separate equipment or software to run , so it’s completely free . It requires little tweaks to be done on your Mac system as explained below.
Benefits of Facetime Home Surveillance System :
- Easy Setup of Home Surveillance
- No additional Hardware Required
- It’s free DIY [ Do It Yourself ] Stuff
Steps to Activate Facetime Surveillance System at your Home :
- Download and install Facetime on your MAC System from here
- On your MAC , Goto System Preferences > Universal Access and check the “Enable Access for Assistive Devices” check box at the bottom of the preference panel.
- Open Apple Script Editor [under Applications/Utilities] and Copy Paste the Following Script here as shown in the image above . Now save it as an application on your Mac desktop.
- Setup your Mac to use a unique Facetime email id . Please remember to keep it secret so that nobody else will know or else every caller with get an auto-answer.
- Now whenever you leave your house , just run this app in the background so that it can take any calls from your iphone iPod.
Update : If you cannot make it run , Download our code instead of saving your own application .DMG File here . Just download it and unzip using WinZip or Winrar on your desktop . [ Thanks to MacLife]
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When ever I run the app made with the apple script provided, I get this error…
“Can’t get «class prcs» “FaceTime” of application “System Event”.
Any ideas how to fix this? I tried searching for a solution myself, but came up with nothing.
have you activated the settings as mentioned , i mean “Enable Access to Assistive Devices”
Yes. I ticked it off in “Universal Access.”
The download in the update solved my problem. Thanks!
thats good . dont forget to share the article with your friends
happy facetime’ing
Hi Folks,
I have two questions:
1) So every time I launch the app created by the applescript, my facetime app dies… any idea why?
2) How do I call my Mac from my iphone?
@ Reza : I dont know what is causing the first problem , but the 2nd one , im writing the tutorial to add and configure facetime on mac and make the call
thanks for leaving your comment . please come back tomorrow , hopefully by then i would have written the tutorial for your problem …
In regards to the issue number one, here the log event os the script:
tell application “FaceTime”
activate
end tell
tell current application
do shell script “sleep 2″
–> “”
end tell
tell application “FaceTime”
activate
end tell
tell application “System Events”
get name of window 1 of process “FaceTime”
–> “FaceTime”
end tell
tell application “FaceTime”
activate
end tell
tell application “System Events”
keystroke ”
”
do shell script “sleep 5″
–> error number -10004
end tell
tell current application
do shell script “sleep 5″
–> “”
end tell
tell application “System Events”
get name of window 1 of process “FaceTime”
–> “FaceTime”
end tell
tell application “FaceTime”
quit
–> error number 0
end tell
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Any idea why the script kills my facetime app?
How do you call your computer! I’m not an idiot but this is making me feel like one I have followed all the steps, but cant figure out how from my iphone to contact my computer? Please help
here you go , a tutorial just for you :
http://www.iphone4jailbreak.org/how-to-call-your-mac-from-iphone-4-setup-guide.html
if the computer is on standby mode, it doesn´t wakes up to receive the call… right?
Good Question , I dont have a mac cant say , but if it were a windows PC , and the computer is on sleep it wont work … you computer must be always on for this to work …
I hope any mac user will be able to reply this