# OctoPrint for Android: Recycle your old phone!

**URL:** http://forum.3dprintbeginner.com/t/octoprint-for-android-recycle-your-old-phone/255
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**Created:** [October 13, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](http://forum.3dprintbeginner.com/t/octoprint-for-android-recycle-your-old-phone/255 "2021-10-13T21:00:00Z")
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### Author: ![3DPrintBeginner](http://forum.3dprintbeginner.com/user_avatar/forum.3dprintbeginner.com/3dprintbeginner/32/3_2.png) [@3DPrintBeginner](http://forum.3dprintbeginner.com/u/3DPrintBeginner)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](http://forum.3dprintbeginner.com/t/octoprint-for-android-recycle-your-old-phone/255/1 "2021-10-13T21:00:00Z")

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Originally published at: [OctoPrint For Android: Recycle Your Old Phone! | 3D Print Beginner](https://3dprintbeginner.com/octoprint-for-android-recycle-your-old-phone/)  
   
OctoPrint for Android is great if you have older Android devices laying around your house which have been long forgotten. You can now recycle those Android devices by using them as an OctoPrint server for your 3D printer. OctoPrint is an awesome opensource project which can add extra functionality to…

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### Author: ![lordgraybush](http://forum.3dprintbeginner.com/user_avatar/forum.3dprintbeginner.com/lordgraybush/32/941_2.png) [@lordgraybush](http://forum.3dprintbeginner.com/u/lordgraybush)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2024, 12:56am UTC](http://forum.3dprintbeginner.com/t/octoprint-for-android-recycle-your-old-phone/255/2 "2024-03-03T00:56:48Z")

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First of all, thanks for the write up. I used it to get my old Samsung setup with octo4a and that has been running for about a year now.

Now I would like to add another camera via USB. I tried cloning the webcam service like I have done on raspberry pis in the past but I don’t have access to anything. Does anyone know how I can do this?