in today's video i'm going to be showing you a cool christmas competition they've been putting
together that's going to allow some of you guys to win some cool tech for christmas check it out
what's going on guys i hope you're all doing well just a quick one for you today and also a bit of a
note to set up my content over the next couple of weeks it's gonna be a little bit sporadic
i've got my whole house move coming up and lots of other things going on so just bear with me
let's get on to the tech then so i had this really cool idea or at least i considered it to be cool
but this cool idea of creating a competition for christmas that would allow some of you guys to
win some bits of tech so i reached out to some of the companies that i've worked with over the year
and they've agreed to sponsor some bits of tech for this competition something else to
note here is i haven't been paid or asked by any of these companies to create this video
this is just part of a fun little project that i wanted to create and it's also going to be part
of my patreon live stream in a couple of weeks currently we've got some tech from the likes of
akara sonoff and riolink now there are also a couple of others and i will get them added to
this roster providing i can get everything sorted in time so that's pretty cool but i guess you
probably want to know what the bits of tech are we'll start off with the cara and just in case
you didn't know they're a huge smart home device manufacturer that create devices in the range of
hubs sensors controllers cameras door locks lights and more they also recently released
the new camera hub g3 for this competition a car is providing an m2 hub a door and window sensor
a motion sensor and a temperature and humidity sensor next up we've got sonoff who are another
big smart home device manufacturer they also create a wide range of different products in
the form of diy devices cameras switches plugs lights and much much more sonoff also recently
released their new smart switch the ns panel which was successfully funded through kickstarter
for this competition so an offer offer in a huge bundle their bundle contains their zigbee bridge
their new zigbee dongle some zigbee sensors which includes their door sensor their motion sensor
and the temperature and humidity sensor to complete the bundle they're also chucking in
some of their lighting products this includes things like the l2 2 meter waterproof led strip
the l2 5 meter led strip and some of their smart bulbs and finally we've got rio link rear link are
a huge smart home camera manufacturer and they create a whole range of different smart home
cameras and they've definitely got something that fits your camera need recently they released the
rear link duo which is a dual lens camera with an ultra wide view for the competition riolink
are sponsoring one of their best-selling 4k poe cameras the rlc 820a so those are the products
that are currently up for grabs they're great products to just add to your existing smart home
or to give away as presents and as i mentioned before there might be a couple of other products
to add to this roster so if i can get them done in time then they'll also be included and if you
want to stay up to date with what products they are then be sure to be following me on my social
media accounts and also just check the description below because if it happens i'll list them there
okay so we've got our products but what do we need to do in order to enter the competition
the competition involves you the user submitting a short paragraph on what your best or what your
worst automation is and it can be as detailed and as descriptive as you want or as crazy and
as eccentric as you want but essentially what i'm looking for is just for a really cool automation
or a really epic fail of an automation for you to share with me to help out with your descriptions
or to do a demonstration you can also optionally share some pictures and videos of your automation
then in a couple of weeks i'm going to be going through all the submissions and i'll be choosing
my favorites and once i've done that i'll be doing a live stream with my patreons where i'll
be sharing those favorites and as a collective we'll be choosing some winners to submit an
entry you're going to just need to fill in this handy google form that i've put together now to
stop robots from ruining christmas and causing a whole bunch of spam on this form i've had to
turn on submission limits and what this will do is it will lock the form to only be able to sign in
with a google account so you'll need a google account in order to actually access this form
and that shouldn't really be a big issue for you especially if you're watching this because you've
more than likely got a google account for your youtube a couple of other things i want to just
point out with this particular form is although it asks you to sign in with your google account that
google account is never shared in the submission so i'll never see your google email address if
that's something you're worried about there is a little box here that asks you for an email
address and this is the email that gets shared on the submitted form so if you want to change
it to a different email address maybe you've got a dummy email or a forwarding email then you can set
that there but whatever you set it to just make sure you do have access to it i'll have a bit
of information about shipment and delivery in the description below so if you want to know if your
region or locale is eligible for the competition then just make sure you read that and yeah that's
pretty much it if i do get a bunch of really cool best automations or some really funny worst
automations then i'll create a follow-up video to this where i just run through and share some
of those so that's the competition and how you go about entering it if for whatever reason i've
explained this like a potato and you still don't understand what you need to do to actually get an
entry in then just let me know in the comments below and i'll try and explain it a bit more
better a massive thank you to acara sewn off and riolink for fronting the tech to support
this competition and an even bigger thank you to these awesome dudes these awesome dudes on
my patreons and they support my channel which allows me to keep on creating content if you're
interested in becoming one of these awesome dudes then there'll be a link to my patreon in
the description below so thank you for watching and i'll catch you in the next one cheers you