i have worked with well over 20 smart home cameras
in my home and i've been working with video cameras and
video in general all my life and this is 100% my favorite security camera
ever
hello automators thanks for tuning in again i'm brian from automate your life
and today i'm going to take the frustration out of automation
and one of the biggest frustrations out there is
privacy with smart home cameras and today
that frustration is as far as i'm concerned gone there are
absolutely a number of reasons that you will love this camera but i'm going to
start with the biggest reason you won't so that people who don't want this
camera are going to get out of here now you will 100
need a samsung smartthings hub you can use a v2 or a v3 i have used both
of those hubs to connect the samsung smartthings vision if you're not willing
to go and spend the 60 u.s on a hub in order
to get a smart home camera working at this
level then unfortunately this is not the video for you this is not the product
for you but if you pay attention for just a few
more seconds you might find the absolute reason
to go get both of these products so this product is called the samsung
smartthings vision and it's a hard to find camera at this
point i will leave all the links down below that i can find
to stock for this product but it is a privacy first or a privacy focused smart
home camera and what you're about to see on screen
is the way the camera feed actually looks see the thing with this
is it's not identifying all the different
objects you have in your home it's not even identifying
my face necessarily who i am and it's not identifying all the different
things that are happening throughout my home it can see movement and it can
identify that i'm a person it can identify my cat or my dog as well
and it can identify if objects are moving through the space so somebody
threw a ball or something and differentiate all of
those things but what it is not doing is sending all of my
information to samsung on what i have in my home and nor to any other company
what you can do with the camera is instantly take it
connect it into samsung smartthings and start to use it as
a security or a monitoring system and the camera itself goes quite far i was
able to reach distances of over 20 feet and have it
still recognize that i was a person moving through the home and send
appropriate notifications it has this magnificent field of view
as well as not recording all of the private things going on
in my smart home from there you can takethis and
extend your smart home monitoring system and
execute all kinds of very advanced things and i'll give you a couple
examples if you have the motion sensors or
contact sensors on your door then you can actually start a recording
immediately on this to capture the person coming into your space
you can also use this to trigger on other automation turn on lights start a
siren and play something from a speaker you
have all of these great automation options with this device and the whole
samsung smartthings security system the installation for this
is amazingly easy now i'm going to show you a couple of things there's actually
a bit of an adapter on the back here this comes with
a strip on the back that is a sticky strip
it's also a magnet backing and they give you some screws and the ability to
screw that into the wall if you'd like now otherwise what you're doing is
you're actually connecting in a micro usb cord into this
and then once you've done that you snap it down and you slide this
over and in and the whole thing is installed
it's incredibly easy and it takes just a few minutes
now the other component to this installation is it has to be fairly high
up you want it kind of at head height so that it can correctly
identify the difference between people and animals and and objects so
you install that at the right height they give you a lot of cable to work
with and then you basically have to go into a
usb adapter now what's funny about where i bought this from i bought it from
australia so it had a power adapter meant for
australia i'm here in canada all i had to do was find a 5 volt 2 amp
usb adapter so basically plug that into the wall
and i was good to go now a little aside about the camera and just a little touch
so you know we talked about those installation methods and the little
movable micro usb thing those are great little touches but they actually put an
led light on here that comes on when it's actually sensed someone and
it's kind of darker in the space will actually come on and that gives it
or gives you a little bit of a light as you enter the space
another touch is that you don't need a subscription service and
not only for the samsung smartthings monitoring service that home monitoring
service that will notify you if someone's in your home
with all these connected devices it's not just that but even the cloud
recordings that are going on with this i don't feel like you need this because
you're going to get that notification immediately
and you can save it to your phone that's how i'm showing you the different
views that i've gotten out of this device because
it goes to the cloud for free i don't have to pay
and then i can download that to my phone now the other thing that you can do
is upgrade if you get a number of these or you get a number of
smartthings cameras connected to the service
you can upgrade to keep your cloud recordings for longer so a couple of
issues number one direct connection into
amazon's voice assistant so their echo echo show series of devices non-existent
right now uh and the same with google homes
devices you can't connect it into home kit either it's going into samsung
smartthings that's the point and you can't
physically see those this camera feed on any of those
it's just the way it is i don't think that's going to change anytime soon
i could be wrong but the other component of that is that you can use samsung
smartthings to send trigger events to lots of those
systems i have a specific tutorial video that
has come out on the channel that shows you how to send triggers to amazon's
voice assistant super powerful stuff there because you
can make all kinds of uh automation happen at that point so great
uh great integration actually with samsung smartthings and those other
platforms but not a direct feed the other issue
that you're going to run into is actually locating one of these now
i've left links down below to where i got this from and over time
i will update these so as you guys find that
that is no longer available leave it down in the comments below
i'll have a look i might not always be able to find them
because right now they're only in a few markets so that's the other big
issue but i'm always happy to help you guys source
great products like this because this is absolutely
number one the first camera that i think people can stick in their home and be
totally secure with from a privacy standpoint
so guys there you have it this is my absolute
favorite smart home camera and i'm totally recommending a purchase of this
at this point to replace whatever you have in your home right now thanks for
watching everyone we have a great playlist up on screen that
helps you get the most out of samsung smartthings so if you're looking at this
system from an overall perspective go ahead watch that you can
also watch our other reviews on great smart home products
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