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There are apps for turning old phones into dashcams and security cams, too.

Why waste an old phone?



Not the same but for a more pro approach and allowing to stream to a RTSP Server I use LARIX Broadcaster, which is both available on android and iOS and it's just superb to turn an old phone into a camera, ofc you'd need an other software to actually detect movement and such from the RTSP feed. Scrypted can do that (for example)


A friend of mine swears by https://zoneminder.com


GPS, accellerometors, gsm, battery, usb. A cheap usb breakout board and youre all set. Meanwhile try to by this for your raspi




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