Gabe Turner: Hi, folks.
This is Gabe at Security Baron and beyond just securing your home, you want to lead
a life of efficiency, productivity and, of course, serenity.
Today I'm going to show you some of the best smart home devices to help you live both comfortably
and safely.
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Gabe: In today's best smart home video, I'm going to show you some of my favorite devices
that I use in my own home.
Things like smart home security system, smart assistance speakers even a smart scale.
I'm going to show you how I work that into my daily life so they can help inform you
as you go about making your own ultimate smart home.
If you want to learn more about all the smart home products that we go over in today's video,
google, "Security Baron Best Smart Home."
Let's kick off today's best smart home video with a device that has put me in the right
mood, create the right ambiance right off the bat and those are my Philips Hue light.
Now, I was an early adopter of Phillips Hue.
I really like the idea of being able to control my lights just using my mobile device or my
voice because it does connect with the big three talking Amazon, Apple, and Google.
You can use any one of those systems to control your lights just using your voice which I
think is really useful.
If it's early in the morning and I want things to be nice and bright, energize, get me going
for the day, I can do so with my Philips Hue lights.
If it's late at night, I'm coming home, been a long week at work, I can definitely just
have it set the right mood.
Or even if I'm having a movie night with friends, I can have the perfect complement to whatever
movie I'm watching just in my lighting system.
I'm a big fan of the Philips Hue lighting system.
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Gabe: Another device that I use in my Smart Home is the Apple HomePod.
Now, it's Siri enabled.
You can use that smart platform for asking the sports scores, how the weather is going
to be for the rest of the week.
For me, the primary usage is music.
Music is a ladder to the soul and it also helps me get out the door in the morning.
I love that it sounds amazing, the sound quality is top notch.
I really feel like Apple did a good job in this sense.
Now when I come home, I actually use it in the same way to really help me come back down
after a long day just have the right vibe.
See what's going on for the evening by asking what's happening in the news and really take
advantage of that Siri-enabled smart device Apple HomePod.
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Gabe: To ensure you have a true Smart Home sometimes you have to bring intelligence to
otherwise dumb devices and I can do so with the Amazon smart plug.
Amazon smart plug allows you to have anything that's plugged into it turned on and off from
wherever you happened to be in the world using the Amazon app.
In my case I have an air purifier.
I like to have that nice fresh air but I don't necessarily want it on all day taking away
electricity that could be used for something better.
In that sense, I have the Amazon smart plug installed with my air purifier so I can turn
it off and on whenever I need to just using that mobile application.
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Gabe: Well, hold on, I hope you're enjoying today's best smart home video.
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All right, let's get back to the video.
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Gabe: Another device I have in my smart home is not just to take care of me but to take
care of the other living things in my home mainly plant but sometimes a dog or a cat
and I do that with the Wyze Cam V2.
Now the Wyze Cam V2 of course integrates with Amazon and Google allowing you to record video
just using your voice but it also has an amazing time lapse function that I used to watch the
blooming and the retreat of my plant in my home.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I promise you it is very relaxing and refreshing.
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Gabe: Another smart device that I use in my home is the Eufy Smart Scale.
Now I want to be clear that weight is not demonstrative or representative of health
for most people.
In my case, I do find it useful for keeping me thoughtful about what I'm eating and doing
each day.
That's because the Eufy Scale integrates not only with the Eufy Life mobile application
on my phone, but also my Apple Health app on my iPhone.
What that means is that I'm getting these measurements of my body in terms of weight
and body fat that I find useful for keeping me considerate of what I'm doing each day
in terms of exercise and nutrition.
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Gabe: No smart home is complete without a smart kitchen.
For me the device that best symbolizes that is the Amazon Echo Show 5.
It is, of course, Amazon virtual assistant powered, but you can do so much more when
it comes to cooking.
I'm not that great of a cook.
While I love to ask it for the weather, and for sports and things of that nature, I do
think I most use it for improving the quality of my meals because there are a host of recipe
programs that you can get with the Amazon Echo Show 5 that will not only show you the
ingredient, and how to cook but even talk you through the cooking experience.
That's made for better meals.
Fortunately, I'm just cooking for myself.
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Gabe: A crucial component of any home is your smoke and CO2 monitor.
In my case, I have a smart device, the Nest Protect which monitors my home for CO2 and
smoke.
What's wonderful about that is not only does it alert me when I'm in the home but it can
alert me using the Nest mobile application wherever I am in the world.
Of course, mine probably goes off a little bit more often than most people's due to my
cooking skills or lack thereof.
I'm honestly really quite assured each time that it goes off for that protection that
I have in my home.
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Gabe: Another important device in my home is really a series of devices that I get with
my Vivint Home Security System.
The Vivint Home Security System, of course, provides you with the peace of mind of knowing
exactly what's going on in your home when you need to.
That's the really important element because I don't want to be bombarded with notifications
throughout the day.
I just want to know the important elements.
Something that can do that is the Vivint Outdoor Camera, which won't just tell you each person
is going by, but may let you know if someone is lurking in the vicinity of your front door
or the Vivint Doorbell Camera, which will let me know when someone has come to the door.
Actually allow me to speak to them directly on my mobile phone from wherever I happen
to be in the world.
Typically it's just someone from FedEx.
Generally speaking, I'm able to get all the information I want about the environment of
my home, arm and disarming it in terms of turning on my motion sensors, my entry sensors
from wherever I happen to be in the road.
Then I can just forget it, which I think is the ultimate goal of any home security system.
The one that I feel like it each time I use my Vivint Home Security System.
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Gabe: What was fun about having smart home device is that you can use them pretty creatively.
In my case, I have the Kangaroo motion and entry sensors, which I strictly use for my
refrigerator.
That's right.
I have someone who comes in and been eating all my apples, and I want to know exactly
what's going on, what's happening to my apples.
Fortunately, you get a notification whenever someone comes in and out so I can use that
in conjunction with my smart doorbell to know exactly who it is coming and taking my apples.
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Gabe: Finally, when you have this many smart home devices in your home, you're going to
want to make sure that you have the proper WiFi signal getting to each product.
In my case, I use Google Mesh, Google Mesh functions as a WiFi range extender.
I have one in my room which is in the back of my home and even my living room in the
front of my home to ensure that my living doorbell is getting proper WiFi and my Eufy
Smart Scale in my bathroom and Google Mesh and its WiFi points really allows me to do
so to have a fully functioning, smoothly running smart home.
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Gabe: All right, we've come a long way in today's best smart home video and I'm giving
you some of my favorite products and my own ideal smart home.
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Gabe: With my Philips Hue bulbs anybody use just my hands or my voice to create the right
ambiance for my day or night.
With the Siri-enabled Apple home pod, I'm able to ask questions to help me go about
my day and use my voice to turn on the tunes are going to put me in just the right mood.
The Amazon smart plug allows me to turn any demo plans into an intelligent one with this
ability to be turned on and off at the tap of a finger.
With the Wyze Cam, I'm able to keep an eye on whatever is going on inside of my home.
Here's my plants.
The Eufy Smart Scale integrates with the Eufy Life app in Apple Health to ensure that I'm
keeping up with my exercise and nutrition goals.
The Amazon Echo Show 5 fits right into my kitchen, reading me off recipes in my quest
to be the next Julia Child.
The Nest Protect CO2 and smoke monitor keeps me up to date on what's going on in my home
and alerts me to potentially dangerous conditions.
With the Vivint Home Security System, I'm able to get the notifications directly to
my phone and let me know what's going on around my home and give me peace of mind.
The Kangaroo motion and entry sensor allow me to know exactly who's rummaging around
in my refrigerator.
The Google Mesh WiFi range extender ensures that no matter how many smart home devices
I get, each one will get the proper WiFi signal no matter where it is in my home.
That concludes our look at the best smart home devices.
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As always, this is Gabe at Security Baron, be secure.