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are you guys sick and tired of buying

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expensive connected hardware only to be expected to pay a monthly subscription

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fee for the right to freaking use it yeah me too which is why at every chance

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i get i've been ridding my life of subscription fees and to help with that

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today ubiquity the sponsor of this video sent over their sick

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g4 video doorbell which i'll be using to

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replace this

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travesty liability nightmare

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of a doorbell that's been on my house presumably since it was built

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how hard could it be

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to level with you guys this really is my doorbell we changed

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absolutely nothing about it for this shoot not even the fact that it's

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detached from the wall to be clear it does work

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okay so it works but um

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clearly i've been slacking now my original plan was actually to replace it

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with a ring doorbell but what i realized when i went to install it was that

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because the ring doorbell has this back bit that needs to be

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recessed into the wall unless i wanted to hang a box off of the brickwork here

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which would have looked really ugly i was actually going to have to cut away

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the brick and i didn't have the right tool for it so this ended up sitting on my to do workbench for

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months to make matters worse with the ring you're actually required to pay a

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monthly subscription fee something that i just personally find really offensive

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when i pay for the hardware in the first place cable companies of all people are

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not even that evil you just pay for the subscription and

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they drop off a cable box at your house how freaking hard is that

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anyway okay i lost lost my thread again it gets

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so mad now i can practically hear what you're thinking Ubiquiti's hardware

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ain't exactly cheap but the beauty of it is that you kind of get the best of both

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worlds you get 24 7 recording with easy access from anywhere through their app

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but because the storage is local on a hard drive that's here in my house i

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don't have to pay a cloud access fee in order to store my data and of course

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there's the added privacy benefit of that as well nobody else has all the

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recordings of the inside for that matter outside of my home

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that means no you know selling it to the cops or whatever else

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going on out there now's as good a time as i need to do an

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unboxing then i guess so up at the top of this puppy you've got a two megapixel

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1600 by 1200 camera you've got a couple of microphones so it actually does have

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two-way voice that's a speaker down there at the bottom it has motion

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sensing obviously a button for the doorbell this looks like one of

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ubiquity's classic ring lights so that's probably going to tell us hey it's

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waiting to be adopted or it's connected or there's an error or whatever the case

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may be and then this is cool it's got a little customizable

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message uh little display here so i guess you could

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be like hey leave it at the door if there's a delivery driver or whatever

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the case may be finally on the back there's not a whole

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lot shaken it's wi-fi only which was actually a bit of a surprise for me

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given that it's ubiquity product usually they're like the power over Ethernet

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kings but it's wi-fi only and then you're expected to power it with your

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low voltage ac wiring that you would presumably already have for your

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existing doorbell which fortunately i do

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also in the box you've got a little mounting plate with its own level in it

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nice you've got a what does that look like about a 20 25

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degree 20 degree angle mount which i'm definitely going to use in order to kind

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of point it more towards whoever's actually at the door and i have no idea

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what these are they're just adapters for wiring wiring

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adapters and then so much silica gel do

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not eat do not eat any of it sorry andy i was

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just trying to make a point don't eat it step one

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break her off this was like

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the best afternoon investment of my life

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i spent like several hours i flipped off every single breaker in my

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house and then i spent several hours flipping them on one by one

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and going and figuring out exactly

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what's hooked up to what because the previous owners did such a bad job of it

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uh it's not a map map but it's like

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it's perfect it's all i could possibly need

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doorbell 21.

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uh sorry give me one sec i need to grab a screwdriver all right so

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look at the way the uv degraded the plastic here isn't that incredible

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just just crumbling away this isn't even that old

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this beautiful wall plate can probably go

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oh no i just wanted to see if it was like

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flexi because it was like warped it doesn't matter the point is it's dead

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now all right uh where'd those instructions go oh

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they're in my back pocket okay what's going on here oh wait what

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this thing goes on the wall inside

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receiver i see

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so that actually rings the doorbell with your ringer inside

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okay it seems kind of over engineered but

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whatever i mean i'm not gonna they're actually pretty standard in

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installs now are they really okay there no no no it's good it's good so this

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comes through here i think like kind of there-ish so in the

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hardware package we've got four screws

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are these all the same length no a couple of them are longer so if you're

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using the angled adapter which i do need then

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we'll need that one and then a couple of anchors so we're going to put these into

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the mortar and attach this i guess

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the best neighborhood ever totally by accident there's so many kids here

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boy all right i need a hammer

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this poor copper is gonna fatigue failure break on me here

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okay um so that's there

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and then this mounting plate

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goes right around

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here here

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not a word uh wrong bit

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ah yes

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let me get these little forks on here

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curiously it doesn't appear to

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be powered yeah it's because you turned off the breaker right

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hey there we go

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got that little ubiquity logo on there got that provisioning thing on there i

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actually have no idea how to

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add this to my oh hello starting up come come

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come come come come get it it's doing stuff ready for setup how fun is that

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uh well i already have a ubiquity app of some sort

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i have UniFi protect okay here we go

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um and so what do i do

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ready for setup okay uh add cameras

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oh look at that would you look at that

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setup cameras

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it has such pretty little sounds

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name your camera do you have a chime box using with chime

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box settings enabled but without a chime box can cause serious damage to the

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device okay i definitely have a chime box

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are you sure you want to install with chimebox settings enabled yes

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okay to receive notifications enable sure

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push notifications

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hello hey look my wife's working

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look at that see look at her working like that let's

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see if she picks her nose it's now updated and connecting to the

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wi-fi again and it's done

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so we can go all the way from wow

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actually i'm that is a wide angle

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that's a wide angle camera it can see me

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here i am literally in line with the wall

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isn't that crazy all right so then by the time i'm here

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it's actually got a pretty good look at me and then it's got me all the way to the

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point where i am standing at the door that's fantastic you got a parcel here

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oh come on in here though andy okay the ringer box is

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flipping out right now can you hear it

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oh yeah colin do you want to kick it one more time

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okay it's amazing how quick that notification

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comes through but yeah i can see what's happening it's not quite giving it

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current for long enough to bop the bottom plate here

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so unfortunately there's no obvious way in the app right now to tune this so you

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can adjust the night vision oh did i mention it has night vision i mean like

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all the other cameras that i have set up but yeah it has night vision uh you know

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overlays status sounds microphones stuff like

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that but there's nothing about how long it sends this pulse for should i just

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like stick that right there anything does that look okay or you know what i could probably just

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like tuck this in here right think i can get away with that

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oh yeah clean

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on a pro tip from ubiquity i took out my 10 volt amp transformer and replaced it

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with a 30 volt amp and

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yay

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all that magic doesn't happen on its own though one of the requirements for

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Ubiquiti setup is some kind of controller so for myself i've got their

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udm pro or dream machine pro so there's my hard drive bay that's what stores the

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data from all of my cameras it's got a built-in eight-port switch as well as

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this up link here that goes to my fiber box from my isp and then it also links

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up with my other switches here including uh this

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usw pro so that handles power over Ethernet for all my cameras and PoE

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powered switches and that stuff hey colin want to go ahead

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okay so we're we're simulating the experience here we go i'm sitting here

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at my computer if i happen to be watching it i would

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actually see him there but doorbell ring

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there we go notification on the phone

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somebody is at your front door you got a delivery for me there yeah

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yeah it looks like uh some ltgstore.com hey lttstore.com hey just because it's a

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sponsored video doesn't mean we're not going to sneak that in there is it good

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stuff oh it looks great i mean there's a little model

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all right thanks colin oh oh this is cool i haven't actually

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tried this yet leave package at door do not disturb

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custom message so you can just throw whatever you want up there that is so

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cool and it stays for one minute oh cool i could have also used my

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computer for this so there's the two-way voice activation here i can take a

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screenshot and then i can also adjust all the settings for this puppy

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hue sharpness saturation HDR brightness

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etc this is what happens when i turn my notifications off for a yes yes yes yes

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i'm very popular other settings we can adjust this is a

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really big one for me i like being able to have the time on my my camera feed

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as well as the camera name just makes a little bit more convenient when you're looking at

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one of these views where you've got a whole bunch of different cameras so it's

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really quick you can tell at a glance hey look it's that andy guy filming me

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right there you can adjust the frame rate and bit rate though i set it to 30

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FPS you can tell it when to record how motion events should trigger things

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uh which zones you want to have be your motion zones like i wouldn't want this

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one to necessarily uh you know ping me every time something goes on over here

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but maybe something every time something goes on here and then finally you know

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firmware updates you can disable the microphone it's pretty cool

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you know just in case you're not comfortable with that even though all the data is just going to your own

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server i've had a great experience working with ubiquity both in a

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