by the time this video is out the problem will be solved so i guess it's
okay to tell you guys this but my home video surveillance system is
horrible i've got three nest cams that
like some of them even have stuff blocking their view of the door and i
don't even pay the subscription because i think that's ridiculous and they're
just this is how they're installed they're just like sitting on stuff
with like loose usb cables plugged into the wall it is definitely
time for an upgrade and this is going to be quite the
upgrade ladies and gentlemen we are going full
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the first camera we're going to mount is probably the most obvious one a nice
high quality look down the end of the driveway that covers the whole front
yard and for that i'm going to use the g4 pro this is a 4k camera it's got a 3x
optical zoom apparently the image quality on this thing is just
absolutely fabulous it's got a large sensor high-powered infrared leds for
night vision and it's ip67 waterproof so
i can mount it pretty much wherever i want which raises the question
hon where do you want to put this thing it is way bigger than i thought it's big
it's like not small so there's that
over here yeah right in the middle right in the middle
i don't think i have any masonry mounting
nor do i have any obvious way to get an Ethernet cable down here so this thing
is uh power over Ethernet powered
whoops that's the second time today yeah
i'm trying all right trying to drop things see if we can do
this theoretically and i lied i do have masonry bits i just really didn't want
to do that theoretically they include
everything we need so we got some pinner looking anchors
we got some screws and then you undo the back of it and you
mount this puppy a little something like that use a seven millimeter bit
i actually don't know how i'm supposed to make a mark with this thing they show
you just putting a pencil through the hole but it doesn't fit now you might
think a mechanical pencil is the solution of this problem you'd be right
but how about another solution to this problem okay i sharpie the tip of
a paper clip and then stick that through the hole wait is that centered that
looks pretty centered right
okay is that so ugly it's pretty ugly
yeah i have some leftover black cat 5e my
issue is i don't know if this is enough
i mean yes technically i could put a switch there
yes technically i could put a switch there actually that's an interesting
thought so ubiquity actually sent over a few of
these they're called their nanoswitch and basically it's a PoE powered PoE
switch so you just run your power over Ethernet
and that powers this device and then also powers
up to three more devices coming off of it we could do up to two of those off of
one of these so maybe this switch can be for the doorbell that's
later date and this one here yeah it would save me doing a separate run for
the doorbell actually see you're brilliant my love
all right fine there's lots of reasons i keep you
around put that in there
now just pull this up
tighten the ring oh look at that look at that
professional mounting job right there normally you
would pull mount these little PoE switches here but
um i'm mounting it indoors so i really just want to wall mount it but i don't
have any screws that are small enough for these stupid hanging holes here
and they don't include any hardware so i'm just gonna widen these
yeah that seems fine okay
um hi there's the real problem child
i'm calling two screws enough for this
i learned from brian the electrician that real men don't need hammers
everything's a hammer
so pewee one right there
okay i need more
okay good job kiddo
i bet you can figure it out your smart girl look at that
okay both of those are done now
i just got to make my way back and take up all that extra slack just spent an
hour on this and i wish ubiquity would have saved me some trouble and not sent
incompatible gear over the nano switch requires 24 volt passive PoE and that
new switch their new pro switch is only 48 volt
so this doesn't work fortunately
i have an Ethernet coupler and i just joined together the two runs that i had
intended to run to the switch and this is pretty cool
that is our front driveway live and there is
so much cool stuff that you can do we've got all the same controls as before so
i'm gonna go ahead and throw it in 4k uh we can play around with the zoom
i personally kind of like the wider view and i think i might even shift it over
to the right a little bit and then there's a bunch of other stuff that you can change in here so under general you
can have it overlay the camera name and the time which i thought was pretty useful
you can change the bit rate frame rate under recording you can decide when you
want to record so if you set it to motion events you can set different zones
so instead of the default zone you could get rid of that you could just have the
street zone you could say look i only want to record when there's something going on out in the street for example
and then you can get rid of it and you can disable the microphone if you want but i'd just as soon leave it on
personally actually kind of curious
oh yeah can hear all the birds chirping
that's crazy that looks so good
let's put up another one one of the reasons i was so annoyed that
this wasn't gonna work out for me was that i had intended to run just one
cable over to the back corner of the house and run a number of security
cameras off of it well okay here's the problem i didn't request those things in
the first place this is the one i asked for the usw flex this one should be able
to handle what i want just fine so we're good naturally though after
that last experience we're gonna do a sanity check here and
make sure we can actually run a camera off this thing because if we don't do
the sanity check and it doesn't work and i go and run a bunch of cabling and blow
an hour i might go insane it's my insane
smile how am i doing
thanks i guess
there we go nice
i knew i planned this out that thing supports a maximum of 46
watts and each of these g4 pros is a
maximum of 12 and a half watts so i can power three of these off that one switch
sick okay if i fall make sure you get my good side on the way down hey
okay here's the plan camera's kind of going over here and over here and this kind of
mounted here
and that is never coming off again i just gotta crotch this camera one moment
please oh please tell me that fits through there you gotta be kidding me boy that
is one tight fit
that's what she said baby
sweet not bad well this is about to get real
interesting here's the problem i can't get at that
from the top so the only way for us to get the cable through is for me to drill
from under here and have someone
be up there at the top uh kind of trying to snake the cable through from about an
ARM's length away can i i'm all geared up ready for the climb
here we go leaving the world behind
yep this is awesome this is exactly how i
imagined i'd be spending my night sorry you're saying this is how you
imagined being married to me was gonna be yeah laying in rat poop
i see it
see it not quite okay wait other hand yep yep i
got it got it nice don't pull too hard
on that i'm at the top of a ladder okay
okay here we go do you think it's going to light up we got a light that's something
show me the don't show me the rings are they both white are they flashing white
they're both flashing light yep
4k ultra hd that is sick
that's good doesn't it i also want to check out the app so
they've got a separate app for the security stuff so it actually looks
almost exactly like the nest app in terms of the view
um but without any subscription because we're
just recording to a local hard drive which is sick we've got our full
timeline so the one we installed at the beginning of the day
there you go
and it's dark now for obvious reasons i'm
gonna move these cameras and i'm installing the other nine of them
without showing you guys where i'm putting them like doi but that's pretty
much the process and overall i am super
stoked with this so far although i'm sure if you guys follow on twitter i'll
let you know if i have any complaints about it moving forward
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