Any way to detect motion from android phone?

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
1

Using an android phone, is there any sensor that detects motion?

If I use IP Webcam, there is a motion sensor so I assume there must be something on the phone that triggers motion for this app.

What I’d like to do is start the IP Webcam app IF motion is detected. I’d rather not have the webcam running in the background all of the time.

2

Hi, browser_mod can use the camera but I don’t know if you can use it for your case.

3

Thanks, but I don’t see how that will give me a trigger to work with.

4

In case browser_mod creates a sensor for the the camera, you can use it.

5

I dug into this deeper today and see this:
A motion binary_sensor which reacts to mouse and/or keyboard activity in the Browser. In FKB this can also react to motion in front of the devices camera.
What does FKB mean?

6

Fully Kiosk Browser.

7

Thank you @stevemann . I’m not using FKB so I would assume there is no way I can sense motion using browser_mod then.

8

I’ve noticed that when I pick up my Android phone, there is a short bzzt of the tactile feedback. I never figured out why the phone needs to tell me that I just picked it up.