- By the time this video's 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.
(laughs) it's definitely time for an upgrade.
And this is gonna be quite the upgrade!
Ladies and gentlemen, we are going full Unify,
ooh, home security today,
and the video is brought to you by...
The AORUS 15G gaming notebook
features Intel's 10th Gen processors,
strong performance, great battery life, and many features.
Check it out at the link today in the video description.
(bright upbeat music)
The first camera we're gonna 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 gonna 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,
hun where do you wanna put this thing?
- [Woman] It is way bigger than I thought.
- It's big.
It's like, not small so there's that.
- [Woman] Let's go put it over here.
- Over here?
- [Woman] 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 power over ethernet powered.
- [Woman] Woops! - Woops!
- [Woman] That's the second time today?
- Yeah, I'm trying all right?
- [Woman] 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.
- [Woman] Oh!
- 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 bits.
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 mechanical pencil
is the solution to this problem.
You'd be right.
But how about another solution to this problem?
Okay, I sharpie the tip of a paperclip
and then stick that through the hole.
Wait is that centered?
That looks pretty centered, right?
(drilling)
(hammer pounding)
Okay, is that something ugly?
It's pretty ugly.
- [Woman] From the front it's okay
but from the side, man.
It sticks out far.
- Yeah, I have some leftover Black CAT-5e.
My issue is I don't know if this is enough.
- [Woman] Could you put a switch in the attic space?
- 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 nano switch.
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.
- [Woman] 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.
- [Woman] See!
- You're brilliant my love.
- [Woman] Yup.
- All right, fine.
There's lots of reasons I keep you around.
Put that in there.
Now, just pull this up, tighten the ring.
Whoa, look at that professional mounting job right there.
Normally you would pull out these little PoE switches here,
but I'm mounting it indoors
so I really just want a 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.
(drilling)
Yeah, that seems fine, okay.
Hi, here's the real problem child.
I'm calling two screws enough for this.
(pounding)
I learned from Brian the electrician
that real men don't need hammers.
Everything is a hammer.
So PoE one right there.
Okay, I need more.
- [Kid] Okay you're able to pull.
Okay, good job kiddo.
- [Kid] I can't get past the wire.
- I bet you can figure it out, you're smart girl.
Look at that.
Hey, hopefully 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.
But nano switch requires 24 volt passive PoE
and that new switch, their new pro switch, is only 48 volt.
(bright gentle music)
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--
- [Woman] Wow!
- 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.
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 wanna 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've just assumed leave it on personally,
actually kind of curious.
Oh yeah.
- [Woman] Did you hear all the birds?
- I can hear all the birds chirping.
(birds chirping)
That's crazy.
It 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 the camera off this thing.
'Cause 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?
- [Woman] Matches your hair.
- Thanks, I guess.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey 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 12.5 Watts.
So I can power three of these, off that one switch.
Sick!
If I fall make sure you get my good side
on the way down, right?
Okay, here's the plan, cameras kinda going over here
and over here and this kinda mounted here,
like that, all right.
I go.
That look level?
And that is never coming off again.
I just got a crotch this camera, one moment please.
Oh, please tell me that fits through there.
You gotta be kidding me.
Boy, that is kind of one tight fit.
- [Woman] It's so long.
That's what she said baby.
Sweet, not bad.
Well, it's 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
kinda trying to stake the cable through
from about an arm's length away kinda ehhh,
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 day.
- Sorry you're saying this is how you imagined
being married to me was gonna be?
- [Woman] Yeah, laying in rat poop.
I see it.
I see it, not quite to it.
Yep, yep I got it.
- [Man] You got it.
Nice.
Don't pull too hard on that.
I'm at the top of the ladder.
- [Woman] Okay.
- Okay, here we go.
Do you think it's gonna light up?
Oh, we got a light, that's something.
Show me the flashing of the rings?
Are they both white, are they flashing white?
They're both flashing white.
- [Woman] Oh are they?
- Yup Yup, yup.
- Oh yes.
4K Ultra HD.
- [Woman] Wow!
- That is sick.
- [Woman] Looks good.
- Doesn't it?
I also wanna 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.
But without any subscription,
'cause 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 do we.
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.
So all that remains,
is to give you guys this message from our sponsor.
Whether you want something personal, for business
or even something for B2 storage,
Backblaze is a cloud storage solution
that's both easy to use and affordable
starting at just $6 a month.
They've restored over 50 billion files,
and they've got over an exabyte of data storage.
You can back up almost anything
and you can restore your files anywhere.
Their mobile apps give you access to your files on the go
so you can directly download them,
or they can even restore your files by mail.
Just purchase a restore via hard drive
and they will overnight FedEx it to you.
After you restore all the data to another storage device,
you can then return the hard drive to them for a refund.
They've got unlimited data backup at a fixed price
and you can receive a fully featured 15 day free trial
at backblaze.com/ltt.
Go try it out and start protecting yourself
from potential bad times,
at the link in the video description.
If you guys enjoyed this video
maybe check out the other Ubiquity video I did
where I upgraded my WiFi with strong enough WiFi.
It's like stadium grade WiFi that I can get,
like 300 feet down the block.
It's crazy.
(bright upbeat music)