are you guys sick and tired of buying
expensive connected hardware only to be expected to pay a monthly subscription
fee for the right to freaking use it yeah me too which is why at every chance
i get i've been ridding my life of subscription fees and to help with that
today ubiquity the sponsor of this video sent over their sick
g4 video doorbell which i'll be using to
replace this
travesty liability nightmare
of a doorbell that's been on my house presumably since it was built
how hard could it be
to level with you guys this really is my doorbell we changed
absolutely nothing about it for this shoot not even the fact that it's
detached from the wall to be clear it does work
okay so it works but um
clearly i've been slacking now my original plan was actually to replace it
with a ring doorbell but what i realized when i went to install it was that
because the ring doorbell has this back bit that needs to be
recessed into the wall unless i wanted to hang a box off of the brickwork here
which would have looked really ugly i was actually going to have to cut away
the brick and i didn't have the right tool for it so this ended up sitting on my to do workbench for
months to make matters worse with the ring you're actually required to pay a
monthly subscription fee something that i just personally find really offensive
when i pay for the hardware in the first place cable companies of all people are
not even that evil you just pay for the subscription and
they drop off a cable box at your house how freaking hard is that
anyway okay i lost lost my thread again it gets
so mad now i can practically hear what you're thinking Ubiquiti's hardware
ain't exactly cheap but the beauty of it is that you kind of get the best of both
worlds you get 24 7 recording with easy access from anywhere through their app
but because the storage is local on a hard drive that's here in my house i
don't have to pay a cloud access fee in order to store my data and of course
there's the added privacy benefit of that as well nobody else has all the
recordings of the inside for that matter outside of my home
that means no you know selling it to the cops or whatever else
going on out there now's as good a time as i need to do an
unboxing then i guess so up at the top of this puppy you've got a two megapixel
1600 by 1200 camera you've got a couple of microphones so it actually does have
two-way voice that's a speaker down there at the bottom it has motion
sensing obviously a button for the doorbell this looks like one of
ubiquity's classic ring lights so that's probably going to tell us hey it's
waiting to be adopted or it's connected or there's an error or whatever the case
may be and then this is cool it's got a little customizable
message uh little display here so i guess you could
be like hey leave it at the door if there's a delivery driver or whatever
the case may be finally on the back there's not a whole
lot shaken it's wi-fi only which was actually a bit of a surprise for me
given that it's ubiquity product usually they're like the power over Ethernet
kings but it's wi-fi only and then you're expected to power it with your
low voltage ac wiring that you would presumably already have for your
existing doorbell which fortunately i do
also in the box you've got a little mounting plate with its own level in it
nice you've got a what does that look like about a 20 25
degree 20 degree angle mount which i'm definitely going to use in order to kind
of point it more towards whoever's actually at the door and i have no idea
what these are they're just adapters for wiring wiring
adapters and then so much silica gel do
not eat do not eat any of it sorry andy i was
just trying to make a point don't eat it step one
break her off this was like
the best afternoon investment of my life
i spent like several hours i flipped off every single breaker in my
house and then i spent several hours flipping them on one by one
and going and figuring out exactly
what's hooked up to what because the previous owners did such a bad job of it
uh it's not a map map but it's like
it's perfect it's all i could possibly need
doorbell 21.
uh sorry give me one sec i need to grab a screwdriver all right so
look at the way the uv degraded the plastic here isn't that incredible
just just crumbling away this isn't even that old
this beautiful wall plate can probably go
oh no i just wanted to see if it was like
flexi because it was like warped it doesn't matter the point is it's dead
now all right uh where'd those instructions go oh
they're in my back pocket okay what's going on here oh wait what
this thing goes on the wall inside
receiver i see
so that actually rings the doorbell with your ringer inside
okay it seems kind of over engineered but
whatever i mean i'm not gonna they're actually pretty standard in
installs now are they really okay there no no no it's good it's good so this
comes through here i think like kind of there-ish so in the
hardware package we've got four screws
are these all the same length no a couple of them are longer so if you're
using the angled adapter which i do need then
we'll need that one and then a couple of anchors so we're going to put these into
the mortar and attach this i guess
the best neighborhood ever totally by accident there's so many kids here
boy all right i need a hammer
this poor copper is gonna fatigue failure break on me here
okay um so that's there
and then this mounting plate
goes right around
here here
not a word uh wrong bit
ah yes
let me get these little forks on here
curiously it doesn't appear to
be powered yeah it's because you turned off the breaker right
hey there we go
got that little ubiquity logo on there got that provisioning thing on there i
actually have no idea how to
add this to my oh hello starting up come come
come come come come get it it's doing stuff ready for setup how fun is that
uh well i already have a ubiquity app of some sort
i have UniFi protect okay here we go
um and so what do i do
ready for setup okay uh add cameras
oh look at that would you look at that
setup cameras
it has such pretty little sounds
name your camera do you have a chime box using with chime
box settings enabled but without a chime box can cause serious damage to the
device okay i definitely have a chime box
are you sure you want to install with chimebox settings enabled yes
okay to receive notifications enable sure
push notifications
hello hey look my wife's working
look at that see look at her working like that let's
see if she picks her nose it's now updated and connecting to the
wi-fi again and it's done
so we can go all the way from wow
actually i'm that is a wide angle
that's a wide angle camera it can see me
here i am literally in line with the wall
isn't that crazy all right so then by the time i'm here
it's actually got a pretty good look at me and then it's got me all the way to the
point where i am standing at the door that's fantastic you got a parcel here
oh come on in here though andy okay the ringer box is
flipping out right now can you hear it
oh yeah colin do you want to kick it one more time
okay it's amazing how quick that notification
comes through but yeah i can see what's happening it's not quite giving it
current for long enough to bop the bottom plate here
so unfortunately there's no obvious way in the app right now to tune this so you
can adjust the night vision oh did i mention it has night vision i mean like
all the other cameras that i have set up but yeah it has night vision uh you know
overlays status sounds microphones stuff like
that but there's nothing about how long it sends this pulse for should i just
like stick that right there anything does that look okay or you know what i could probably just
like tuck this in here right think i can get away with that
oh yeah clean
on a pro tip from ubiquity i took out my 10 volt amp transformer and replaced it
with a 30 volt amp and
yay
all that magic doesn't happen on its own though one of the requirements for
Ubiquiti setup is some kind of controller so for myself i've got their
udm pro or dream machine pro so there's my hard drive bay that's what stores the
data from all of my cameras it's got a built-in eight-port switch as well as
this up link here that goes to my fiber box from my isp and then it also links
up with my other switches here including uh this
usw pro so that handles power over Ethernet for all my cameras and PoE
powered switches and that stuff hey colin want to go ahead
okay so we're we're simulating the experience here we go i'm sitting here
at my computer if i happen to be watching it i would
actually see him there but doorbell ring
there we go notification on the phone
somebody is at your front door you got a delivery for me there yeah
yeah it looks like uh some ltgstore.com hey lttstore.com hey just because it's a
sponsored video doesn't mean we're not going to sneak that in there is it good
stuff oh it looks great i mean there's a little model
all right thanks colin oh oh this is cool i haven't actually
tried this yet leave package at door do not disturb
custom message so you can just throw whatever you want up there that is so
cool and it stays for one minute oh cool i could have also used my
computer for this so there's the two-way voice activation here i can take a
screenshot and then i can also adjust all the settings for this puppy
hue sharpness saturation HDR brightness
etc this is what happens when i turn my notifications off for a yes yes yes yes
i'm very popular other settings we can adjust this is a
really big one for me i like being able to have the time on my my camera feed
as well as the camera name just makes a little bit more convenient when you're looking at
one of these views where you've got a whole bunch of different cameras so it's
really quick you can tell at a glance hey look it's that andy guy filming me
right there you can adjust the frame rate and bit rate though i set it to 30
FPS you can tell it when to record how motion events should trigger things
uh which zones you want to have be your motion zones like i wouldn't want this
one to necessarily uh you know ping me every time something goes on over here
but maybe something every time something goes on here and then finally you know
firmware updates you can disable the microphone it's pretty cool
you know just in case you're not comfortable with that even though all the data is just going to your own
server i've had a great experience working with ubiquity both in a
sponsored capacity thanks ubiquity for the sponsored video today as well as an
unsponsored capacity just upgrading my network my wi-fi as well as my home
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