You can reach me on Discord under the username @ozymandiasthegreat in case you have any question.

What does it do?

This is a free-to-use software that when ran, it keeps watch over your laptop while you're away. It keeps on scanning your webcam and takes pictures, then sends them to you in real-time via Telegram while you're away from your laptop.

Prerequisites

First, you need to have Python installed into your system, you also need a Telegram account.
Python can be installed from this website: https://www.python.org/downloads/. Python 3 is recommended; This software was built using Python 3.11.7
You can set your Telegram account by downloading Telegram into your phone or desktop, then following their straightforward process.

How to set it up?

1- You need to have this repository installed into your local machine, you can either download it as ZIP or clone(Git is required) it into your local machine using the command git clone https://github.com/hamzaaitbrik/Laptop-Guardian
2- After you've installed this repository into your local machine, open a Terminal or CMD window inside your local repository and run this command pip3 install -r requirements.txt to install the modules that this repository depends on.

Now that you installed the repository and the modules it depends on. You can begin setting it up by running setup.py using the command python3 setup.py into a Terminal or CMD window opened in the directory that contains the repository then follow the instructions.

How to run?

After you've completed all the above steps, you can simply run the program by running this command python3 run.py



Enjoy.