Package Delivery Detection with an Old Phone — No Ring, No Subscription

A "delivered" email that arrives 40 minutes after the box actually landed on your porch is how packages walk away. A spare phone pointed at the door and one sentence in plain English can tell you the second it arrives.

The problem with "you'll get a notification"

Carrier notifications are late and often wrong — marked delivered while the driver is three stops away, or silent until hours later. Ring and other smart doorbells work, but they mean buying hardware, wiring or charging a doorbell, and usually a monthly subscription just to keep your own video. And plain motion alerts are useless here: every passing car, cat, and cloud shadow sets them off, so you learn to ignore them — right up until the one that mattered.

How AI watching is different

AI Vision Monitor uses a vision AI model that actually understands what it sees. You point any spare phone at your door and write the trigger yourself, in normal language:

The app checks the scene at the interval you choose and keeps previous frames for context — so a car driving past doesn't wake you up, but a box on the step does.

Setup in 3 minutes

1. Prop any spare phone (even a 5-year-old Android) on a windowsill or shelf with a clear view of the door or porch. Plug it into a charger.
2. Install AI Vision Monitor and describe what you're waiting for in one sentence — any language works.
3. Pick a check interval — every 5 minutes is plenty for a delivery window — and start monitoring. Alerts arrive as push or email.

What people watch their door for

• "Package arrived" alerts so you bring it in before a porch pirate does
• "Package missing" alerts if a box that was delivered disappears
• Knowing when a courier is at the door, so you catch a signature-required delivery
• Watching a shared apartment lobby or mailroom — same phone, different sentence

Get it on Google Play iOS Beta (TestFlight)

FAQ

Do I need a Ring or a smart doorbell?
No. Any spare Android phone or tablet is the whole setup. No wiring, no doorbell, no subscription.

Will passing cars and pets cause false alarms?
No — this isn't motion detection. The AI evaluates your described event against the scene, with previous frames as context, so only a real package (or a real disappearance) triggers.

Does it work offline?
The phone needs internet: analysis runs server-side, which is exactly why ancient devices work fine as door cameras.

Can it replace a security camera?
Different tool. A security cam records everything for later; AI Vision Monitor is the zero-setup option when you have a spare phone and want a plain-language alert about one specific thing — the package, the person, the change — for your door and for anything else you point it at.