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My older sister's first car was a Hillman Minx about the same vintage. It wouldn't start in the harsh winter weather of Kansas so my father would fire up his torpedo space heater and aim it at the grill. In a short time that car thought it was July and start on the first try. My sister wrecked that car and my dad traded it for a trombone. The trombone made the dogs nervous so he traded it for a silver watch fob. That's my Hillman Minx story! :)

The first auto I drove was a 1936 Ford pickup. My dad was restoring it and I drove it around the block in first gear on the starter. My dad would have beat me if he knew. The first car I really drove was a 1937 Chevy Coup which was another auto my dad rebuilt. We went out into the country and he let me drive it around. I couldn't see the road over the hood so I drove on the left side so I could see the road/ditch. :)
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[APP][FREE] Zone Monitor - monitors camera & alerts when motion detected

Overview
I wanted an app that would use my phone's camera to monitor a particular area, and alert me via email if motion is detected. I thought it would be a good exercise to write the app myself - as well as being an interesting project, this would allow me to implement whatever features I wanted. The app is free, and there are no restrictions or ads. I won't go into all the features here as they are explained on the app's website.

The APK file and explanation of all features/settings is at:
http://www.apdroid.byethost5.com/zonemonitor/zonemonitor.html

(I no longer publish my apps to Google Play since they made it mandatory to list my home address)

Permissions required:
  • INTERNET - to send emails when movement is detected
  • CAMERA - to take photos for comparison
  • RECORD_AUDIO - the app supports taking videos as well as photos
  • ACCESS_WIFI_STATE - required to set up the app's HTTP admin interface

Known issues:
I have tested this on a few different phones, and run it for weeks without restarting on an old Motorola device. It works fine on my Google Pixel as well, but on my OnePlus 3T it crashes quite frequently and I still haven't figured out the cause of this.

Feel free to give it a try and let me know if you run into any problems. There are quite a few settings that can be adjusted so it might be worth playing around with these to get the desired results.

Andrew Parkin
Main website: http://www.apdroid.byethost5.com/

(the original project name "Motion Detector" can still be found in various places within the app, I decided to rename it to "Zone Monitor" as there is already an app called Motion Detector; I will get around to fixing these at some point)

Screenshot being added to voice search from long press home button

I want a long press of the home button to work as it use to. you long press, search box comes up, type texts or do a voice search and it searches for that. I do not want it to include a screenshot.

my wife, son and 2 friends have the same phone as me, and it does not do it on their devices. This is also happening on my Samsung Galaxy tab 8
Try a different launcher.

hmm, Samsung you say, sorry about the other day, it was a very long hot sunny day.

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