Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. Now if you remember from a
previous video, we did a full setup process of the Onyx by Orion device. I
want to go through a review today, and show you just what you can use these
devices for. We're gonna get a little more in depth into some of the
automation capability that these devices have for you in your home, or in your
business. So let's get going with the review first, and then I'll show you some
more about these devices. So let's go ahead, let's get a review done on these.
This will help to kind of get you ready for the setup, and I will help you
understand the devices: what they're capable of and what they're good at. From
a technology perspective, these are Bluetooth devices. They're gonna connect
to your phone through Bluetooth, and then they go over any network that your cell
phone is on. So that means your Wi-Fi or that means your LTE or 3G network.
Whatever you're on right now. There's a translator component to these devices
and I have to say it's incredible. I can't believe they can do what they can
do. I'll get into that in a future video. The team connectivity is very impressive
as well, just because it's instantaneous communication. From a technology
perspective, this is a compact device that's still powerful and actually has a
pretty good speaker, and a pretty good microphone or sound capability within it
as well. It's a pretty strong 9 out of 10. On the automation side this is
something you wouldn't expect from a couple of devices like this, but this is
why I got interested in the Onyx device. The IFTTT integration. It
makes all kinds of home and business automation possible, and again I'm gonna
go through that in later videos. The translator automates communication.
I can see all kinds of applications for the translator. You literally speak
into the device and out comes the other language.
Right out of the box, it automates your team's communication instantly. So from
an automation perspective, I'm giving this product a very high 9 out of 10.
Moving on to life integration, and this is this is funny I feel like I'm in Star
Trek, and as soon as I've put on my communicator, I don't want to take it off.
It feels like a lifeline to me now and especially since I've done some
connecting to my home automation. It does
initially feel funny to put a device like this on at first, but what I'll say
is if you're in any kind of work environment where you have a team,
this is an easy device to put on. So it's much better from a business integration
standpoint. Now what they have done is made it very easy to clip on your
clothing or a backpack or whatever and so the life integration score again is
very high at 9 out of 10. From a worth perspective I'm giving this an 8.5
out of 10. The price for two is $99 USD and that's actually really
good I think from a business standpoint. There are plans that you can actually
purchase from Orion that allows you to increase the functionality on it and
it also allows you to use your cell phone and the app on the cell phone as
another onyx entirely. So it allows you to communicate with your team just
simply through your phone, and through your phone's data plan. Or through the
Wi-Fi you have. Now in the end it's actually very close to being as good as
a Google Home or an Amazon Echo at controlling your home, and that's the
IFTTT functionality. From an overall perspective, these are incredibly
impressive devices. It's completely unique in terms of its capability of
being kind of a Radio++. I'm gonna call it the next level of team
radio or team communication. Then on top of
that, you have this capability for automation and extending the
functionality of your team. I can imagine teams using this to trigger
sales or point of sales, and logging capabilities for those sales that
they're putting through. There's a lot of capability here in the future. So I
think from an overall perspective this is a very, very, strong 9 out of 10. So now
I've explained how good the devices are but I think you need to understand how
you get them set up. That'll show you a little more about what they can do.
On an iOS or an Android device, you have to have the Orion application. You'll
have to go through a fairly regular or normal signup process, and once you do
they ask you to sync your contacts. Go ahead and do that and it will actually
find other people with Onyx. Once you've done that you're going to be
within the app, and you've got to connect one of those Onyx devices to your
application, or to your phone. So you're going to use their setup process, and
what you're actually doing is connecting these devices by Bluetooth. So they're
going to, from that point on, use your phone's internet connection to
communicate with others. From there once it's all connected or paired with your
phone, you need only to turn on your phone. You can have the app open in the
background, and then what you have to do is join a group, and once you join a
group or create a group, and then invite people into it you're going to be able
to communicate with them. So right here you'll see me creating the family group,
and then I go ahead and I invite someone to that group. Once they've accepted and
once they're in that group with their own Onyx device, I can go ahead and
communicate with them directly simply by pushing the button on my Onyx. As
long as they're online, they're going to receive it. Now that I've shown you
quickly how to set them up, let's go ahead, you can see them working just
between myself and my wife and then I'll explain a little more why these are
considered an automation device. "Echo one-niner, come in please."
"What are you up to one-niner."
"Good carry on."
So now you've seen me use the device and communicate between
myself and and my wife and obviously you could use this as in a team setting with
multiple people, and you could have multiple conversations going on. You could
have multiple groups. Now what I'm just running through here on the screen is a
connection of this device to IFTTT. Now once you connect these
Onyx devices to If This Then That, your options become essentially unlimited for
what you do with these. And what I mean by that is once you're connected to
IFTTT, you can use these devices to actually toggle Wemo plugs, or toggle
your hue lights, or toggle any other automation device in your home. So here's
me setting up an applet on the fly to control my hue lights, and I did test
this out it totally works. So not only can you communicate with your team, but
you can also have certain keywords or certain phrases, that as you speak them
will trigger processes in IFTTT. And what's more, you can use
Stringify within IFTTT to trigger flows and so the combinations
are essentially limitless with these. Aall you need to do is explain to a team
or a group of people using these that there are specific keywords or phrases
that they use to trigger these applets. So I think that's a pretty good
baseline for, not just a review of these devices, but what they can actually do
for you. In any case, thanks for watching everyone.
We'll see you next time.