I'm gonna show you nest secure it is the
security alarm system from nest the
smart home unit of Google I'm going to
show you the parts of the system how you
install the parts and how it all works
together through the app so if you're
considering buying one of these watch
this video and you'll get a much better
idea about the product so these are the
parts that come in the box there is the
nest guard this is the main base unit
this includes an alarm and it also
includes a motion detector so if you put
this in your hallway you don't
necessarily need any sort of detection
on the front door because as soon as
someone opens that or this is going to
pick them up you also have these things
called nest detect these are the senses
that you put on doors and windows now
they work with a magnet just just like
any other magnetic based entry sensor
that you have in a alarm system one of
the interesting things about these
though is that they also include a
motion sensor so they will not only
guard an entryway a door or a window but
they'll also detect if anyone's moving
around the room whether they come in
through those doors or windows or not
you can also place these and things like
hallways as basic motioned motion
detectors and they have a little light
in them as well which nests calls paths
light and that works at nighttime when
the lights are off if you walk past this
at nighttime in it detects movement then
it will switch the light on as a sort of
night like to illuminate the corridor or
the area in front of the door
another couple interesting features on
those and then you have these little
RFID tags now these are used to tag up
the system on or tag the system off in
lieu of a passcode you can also use a
passcode but if you have one of these on
your key it's pretty easy to use so
these are the main parts of the system
one of the first things you're going to
want to do is to install one of these
sensors so this is how you do it and if
you have a nest system you'll recognize
this is the nest app you have feeds from
nest cameras a doorbell and an outdoor
security camera here an indoor camera
that only comes on when someone is away
from the home and then there's the nest
guard and there's already one door
sensor on here I'm going to add another
door sensor
so we go down to our product and then
like all nest products there's a barcode
on the back and the easiest way to add
it is to scan the barcode all right it's
already scanned and it tells you a
little bit about the device and then it
tells you to take out the battery tab
that would be correct if this was a new
device but I've already had this in use
so I'm going to gonna pop a battery into
it and then it's going to look for it
and it's going to try to connect so all
this is connecting up and tell you
something about the little button on the
end here this has an interesting feature
that when you want to leave the house
say early in the morning if everyone
else is asleep you can press this button
and it momentarily disables a sensor for
a few seconds it allows you to open the
door go out close the door behind you
and you haven't disabled the entire
alarm system and that means that as soon
as did always closed everything is still
enabled and that door to Rhian ables
itself when you close the door so
another nice little innovation that's
been added to this ok this is already
now added to the nest account so we've
got this working I am going to put the
put the back panel on here nest supplies
a couple there's this basic one here
which you just use if you're putting it
up against a door or a window and
there's a sort of right angle one if
you're using this as a motion detector
and you're going to put it in the corner
of a room you would use that one but
this one is just going to be used as a
basic detector let's go back into the
app here and it's now going to try to
guide me through the through the
installation so the first thing it's
going to do is ask me where it is so I'm
going to say it's going to go on a door
and it's going to be a sliding door and
it's going to be the let's say the the
door to my deck and then what's it
asking me to do now and it's a it's an
entryway sensor so it's gonna get me to
test the magnets here
and you will see that as they bring this
together we should get a green light on
there we do indeed because it's working
yeah this is where you would attach it
to your door and now it's gonna ask you
to pull them apart to make sure that it
works and it does so like other security
systems there are three basic modes
first of all off everything is switched
off the alarm is not monitoring anything
there's the away mode when everything is
being monitored and if something happens
the alarm will go off and then there's
the home mode which is when it's
monitoring sensors around the edge of
your house as a sort of entry sensors
doors and things like that but it's not
doing any motion detection inside the
house because you've told it that people
are at home that's the one you use at
nighttime so that if someone tries to
break into your house the alarm goes off
but if you walk around it doesn't go off
you can set those on the the main screen
here if we go to it nest guard you can
see across here I can put it into home
mode or I can put it into a way mode and
the switch that off for the time being
and then also on here is the current
status of the different sensors this is
the entryway input the keypad here and I
said it has a motion detector motion
detectors set to off because I've got
the system set off but if I move for
example this door you can see that now
the deck door has moved up to to open so
it's as it's as easy as that and you can
monitor it through this app there's a
bunch more settings inside the app let's
look at some of those we've got a
home-and-away assist it can adjust
security when you use the app also it
will try to remind you if you leave home
and you didn't set the alarm to away
you'll get a notification on your cell
phone screen saying hey looks like
you're out of your house do you want to
switch your alarm on so it tries to
remind you so you don't forget something
like that
there is an adjustment for the security
levels quiet open is the feature where
if you press the button on the nest it
allows you to open a door and leave and
then the system we arms as soon as the
doors closed that can be set to on or
off if you don't want that enabled you
don't have to have it motion detection
and you can if you want reduce motion
sensitivity if you're getting a lot of
false alarms let's go back one step here
Ness does have a professional monitoring
service which is where that would be
enabled and there's also a cellular
backup service again you're going to
have to pay for those and some of the
alarm options so to set the alarm do
your a passcode or not pretty easy and
straightforward most people will
probably say no but maybe if you've got
kids that are always pressing buttons
you don't want them to set the alarm the
countdown you get when you come home it
can be anywhere from zero to five
minutes zero sounds a little bit scary
because then as soon as you open the
door the alarm is going to go off
however of course that will still work
for you if you disable the alarm with
the app before you open the door and you
walk in and you've also got the
countdown when you leave as well
you've got anywhere from thirty seconds
up to five minutes for the system to
switch on when you walk out and then
there's some settings here for some of
the different sensors so let's look at
one of these input sensors that
pathlight function which is switching
the little white LED on inside it as you
walk by in the nighttime you can switch
that on or off if you have it off you're
going to save back to a little bit
motion detection can be set on or off
per sensor and you also have these open
tones which are those you can set those
on and off per sensor and then you can
adjust things like the placement of the
device so the system knows exactly where
it is so let's look at what happens when
you decide to arm the alarm you can do
it on the app here or we can do it on
here oh we've got the off button we've
got the home and guarding or we've got
the away you have 30 seconds to exit all
right so now I've set this this is going
to countdown 30 seconds and then also at
the same time the app is showing that
it's now in the away mode as soon as
this finishes counting down the system's
going to be armed and then any of these
sensors if they detect anything that's a
door opening or closing or movement then
the system is going to be triggered it
is now armed so let's give it a bit of
movement
and now we can type a ping code in or we
can use or we can use one of these tags
to stop it and that's as easy as it is
if you want you could put a ping code in
let me read on this the whole system has
been quite well sort of quite well put
together in terms that these devices do
a lot of different things like the
senses that double as motion sensors or
as entryway sensors or the base station
that has a motion sensor in it as well
so it is a bit more expensive but you
only need to buy a few fewer pieces this
is gonna arm again and this time I'm not
going to switch it off so you can hear
the alarm the alarm will sound in 10
seconds alright this is the bit please
enter your passcode I hate the most that
is incredibly loud that's why I had to
switch it off so fast but that's kind of
what the alarm sounds like now as you
should have already figured out there
are a lot of voice prompts on this
system including when doors an open door
motion is sensed anywhere I'm gonna
switch this off with the tag and you'll
get the same prompts as well if there's
an error with the system when you go to
armed it don't want that so it's a
pretty easy to use system it's quite
user friendly nest also allows you to
set different access levels for these
tags so you can actually give a tag to
someone like a dog walker or a cleaner
they have the ability to come in and out
of your house but their tags won't allow
them to change any of the settings on
the unit now what about price so for the
system that you see here the nest secure
the pack 399 dollars that's the base
unit
two of these detect sensors and two of
these tags you can expand the system of
course additional tags are $25 each
additional sensors are $49 each that's a
little bit on the expensive side when
you look at these sensors that you can
buy for some of the competing systems
but remember these sensors are dual
action they're not just magnetic motion
sensors for doors and windows but
they're also motion sensors for movement
inside a room so they do a little bit
more than a regular sensor if you're
having trouble with connectivity for
these and you for $69 you can buy a
range extender a nest also offers
professional monitoring that is a little
bit on the expensive side again it's
more like a traditional alarm system
it's $29 a month but that comes with no
commitments if you sign up for a 3-year
contract it goes down to $19 a month but
remember that signing up for a
three-year contract essentially locks
you into six hundred and eighty four
dollars of payments over three years so
combined with the base unit that's over
$1,000 as one of the reasons why tech
I've likes the competing ring system so
much because it's monthly monitoring is
only ten dollars so that gives you an
idea of the nest secure and how the app
works so how you set it up if you're
looking into buying one I hope that
helps
[Music]