Gabe Turner: Hey, folks. This is Gabe with Security Baron, and after a number of name
changes it seems that Tend has decided on naming this camera, the Tend Indoor 2, and
we've decided to see what it's made of.
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Gabe: In today's review of the Tend Indoor 2, we're going to put it to the Security Baron
necessary features test and then dive into its mobile app, the Tend app, to make sure
you have all the information you need to make the right decision.
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Gabe: If you'd like to see a list of our favorite home security cameras, google "Security Baron
best home security cameras." If you have a question about today's review, leave us a
comment, and I'll get back to you.
Let's kick off today's review of the Tent Indoor 2 by putting it to the Security Baron
necessary features test. Here at Security Baron we think that every home security camera
should have stellar video quality, two-way audio, night vision, local and cloud storage,
smart platform integration, artificial intelligence, convenience, and value.
Our first Security Baron necessary feature is going to be that stellar video. We define
stellar video as having at least 1080p high-definition video and a 120-degree field of view, and,
fortunately, the Tend Indoor 2 is bringing it.
It has a 1080p, so you're going to have nice, clear images. We've got some pretty vivid
color and you get a 125-degree field of view, so it's 5 degrees over our minimum. Especially
if you place the Tend Indoor 2 in a corner you are going to see most everything that
takes place in any given space.
If you note in our footage, that my face was quite clear. You can make me out, pretty much,
no matter how far away I am in a particular space. Looks nice and even and really gives
a great perspective of what's going on.
When it comes to video quality on the Tend Indoor 2, we are giving it full marks.
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Gabe: Two-way audio is a Security Baron necessary feature, because you want to be able to have
a clear conversation with whoever happens to be in your space. You want them to hear
you, you want to be able to hear them.
Even if it's just telling them to leave some of your stuff alone. Now, when it comes to
the Tend Indoor 2, it's bringing it. It has pretty solid, pretty clear, two-way audio.
Now one thing I will note, is that there is a little bit of ambient noise, as you can
see here. [speaks with ambient noise] "The audio on the Tend Indoor 2."
Despite the ambient noise, you still can hear pretty clearly. Honestly, considering how
affordable the Tend Indoor 2 is, I wouldn't expect those advanced noise cancellation features.
When it comes to two-way audio and the Tend Indoor 2, we've got to give it full marks.
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Night vision is a Security Baron necessary feature because you definitely want to be
able to see what's taking place in the dark. Fortunately, the Tend Indoor 2 really impresses.
I'll be honest, I was pretty skeptical that a device this small could have any type of
an impressive night vision. Boy, was I was wrong.
It doesn't seem to have a ton of infrared LEDs. What it does have really presents a
clear picture. I can walk around the room. I can get really close. I can get really far.
It's really capturing everything in great detail.
Ultimately, really impressed with the night vision on the Tend Indoor 2. We have to give
it full marks.
Local cloud storage is a Security Baron necessary feature. You want to be able to have things
stored locally on the device. You also may just want to be able to throw into the cloud
and access it from anywhere.
Unfortunately, the Tend Indoor 2 does not have a local storage option. It does have
some pretty excellent cloud storage ones, starting with the fact that it gives you seven
days of cloud storage for free for your entire life.
Once you have that accessible, you can go into the cloud. Watch your videos. Download
your videos. Share your clips, whatever you like. Now, if you want to extend that, you
can do so. It's $9.99 a month, and that gives you 30 days of cloud storage.
Now, whether or not you decide to go with the free 7 days or the 30 days, one excellent
element of the Tend Indoor 2 is that, if you go into a live view, for example, you can
download those clips directly to your phone if you decide to hit Record.
If I'm in my view, I see something happening, I tap on Record. It's going to download those
straight to the Photos folder on my mobile device, which is really useful.
When it comes to local and cloud storage for the Tend Indoor 2, we're going to give it
half marks.
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Gabe: Smart platform integration is a Security Baron necessary feature. Some of the larger
platforms out there are Amazon's virtual assistant, Google's virtual assistant, or Apple's virtual
assistant. That integration allows you to just use your voice or those mobile applications
to control your cameras.
Now, when it comes to the Tend Indoor 2, it does integrate with Amazon's virtual assistant.
However, I would say, that its utility is limited. You can use your voice to ask your
Amazon Echo Dot, for example, to show you past recordings on your Tend Indoor 2.
Unfortunately, you don't have the ability to view your Tend Indoor 2's live feed. I
think that would be the most popular thing that people would want to do with their indoor
security camera. It's something that it is not capable of.
When it comes to smart platform integration and the Tend Indoor 2, we've got to give it
half marks.
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Gabe: Artificial Intelligence is a Security Baron necessary feature. AI is important for
not only cutting down the number of notifications you get, but overall rounding out your home
security apparatus, and the Tend Indoor 2 really excels in this capacity.
It has facial recognition technology, so you can create your own facial recognition library.
It can recognize those people that are coming into your home more frequently, and let you
know when people that it doesn't recognize are there.
Maybe you want to turn your notifications on, for example, for when your dog walker
comes. Now you're like, "Oh, OK, the dog walker, Richard, has arrived, and let me let Richard
go back and do his thing." At least I know my dog has been walked. It's a really useful
element.
When it comes to Artificial Intelligence and the Tend Indoor 2, we have to give it full
marks.
Convenience is a Security Baron necessary feature, because you want the installation
and maintenance of your device to be easy, intuitive, not problem. Unfortunately, that
is definitely the case with the Tend Indoor 2.
I simply went to my adaptor, plugged it in, made sure I was close enough to my Wi-Fi to
capture it, plug it all up, get it going with the mobile application that facilitates this
entire process, and then I began building my facial recognition library of friends.
I was set and ready to go probably less than 15 minutes.
Overall, a really convenient process. I have to give it full marks.
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Gabe: Value is a Security Baron necessary feature, because we all want the bang for
our buck. We all want to feel like we got one over on the company. I've got to say,
with the Tend Indoor 2 coming in at under $60, that's how I feel. You pay $59.99 and
what do you get?
You get a camera that doesn't really require you to pay any more money if you don't want
to. With that free seven-day cloud storage where you can watch, share, download all the
clips to your heart's content. You get that facial recognition library, so you know exactly
what's going on in your home and who exactly is doing it.
You also have that 1080p high-definition video with a more-than-adequate 125-degree field
of view. It's bringing out all the hits. It's like end of the concert, end of the tour,
they're letting you have it all. Overall, big fan of the value with the Tend Indoor
2, and we have to give it the fullest of marks.
Now that we've put the Tend Indoor 2 through the Security Baron necessary features test,
let's check out its mobile application, the Tend App. This is where you're going to be
doing your live streaming of footage, setting up your facial recognition library, looking
at your event history, and you want it to be an intuitive, easy process.
Fortunately, people are loving it. You have a 4.7 out of 5-star rating in the Apple App
Store, and a 4.6 out of 5-star rating in the Google Play Store. Let's go ahead and check
it out on my iPhone.
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Gabe: Here we are checking out the Tend Indoor 2 in the Tend Mobile Application. Right off
the bat, you see a few different options and you see that play button, so let's go ahead
and check out the live view. Here we are in the live view, you can see me pretty well.
Now let's go ahead and take that to a fuller screen by tapping on that frame in the bottom
right-hand corner. You see just that space. If you look at the bottom, you have a microphone
icon, a speaker icon, and that camera icon, allowing you to speak, or listen, or even
record this footage right now in the live view.
One interesting thing is that if you do take a picture, record, in the live view, it's
not going to go into your event history, as you may know with some other cameras out there.
Rather, it's going to record it directly to your phone.
If you're on an Android or an iPhone, you'll find those recordings in your Photos. That's
one thing to remember with the Tend Indoor 2, and it's actually something I like. I'm
not dependent on having a connection to the app to review that footage that I've taken
in the live view.
If I go the landscape route, I get a full picture and it moves all those icons to the
right side of the screen. Jumping out, let's look at some of these options you have right
there within the app.
The top one is Set Motion Detection, and here, you note that it's in currently enable or
recording events. Let me go and turn that off, for a second, and as I can record anything
and I'll turn it on, I can decide on the sensitivity, the Motion Sensitivity that I wanted to have
and I can schedule those notifications.
I can have it set at all times or within set times if I don't want to be bombarded with
messages. Excellent element that we have to point at right from the get-go is that it
has artificial intelligence, specifically facial recognition technology.
Here, I've got a few people put into the system and if you note, "I," for example, "Don't
want any notifications when it's just me in the room." Because I know it's me or maybe
I don't want any from my other friend but I do want notifications when as particular
person has entered or left, maybe it's a dog walker, maybe it's a mail person and who knows.
If I continue out of here, I can go directly into a Facial Recognition Library and I can
add a new profile if I so desire. This will let me take that person's face and enter them
and overtime a little, get better at actually recognizing that individual.
If I want to go and add more cloud storage because I do get seven days free, I can do
so by just tapping on Add Additional Storage. I go to subscriptions and you get 30 days
of cloud storage for $9.99 a month.
Remember, this is a Facial Recognition Equipped Device. When I tap on Event History, which
is right there in the middle, you'll see that it's telling me each person that came into
the room. It's typically just me and I say, "Hey, this is who's in here. This is what
they're doing." Which is really useful.
I can just use this element of the app to actually say, "Hey, hey, this is what's going
on and who was doing it." One thing to note is that if you see, at the beginning, it was
not always recognizing me in certain positions while I was on the phone, when I was too far
away. It isn't perfect.
We're not that far into the future yet but generally speaking, it recognizes me 90 percent
of the time. I can review anyone on these clips simply by clicking into it. I click
there. I click Play, and after a moment of buffering, that clip will begin to play.
Here I am just playing on my Apple Watch. You can see exactly what's going down. I'm
tapping a lot, very boring video but I do have it and I am able to access it really
easily right inside of the Event History.
Beyond the fact that it's recognizing my face in these clips, you'll note that if I tap
on these settings on the right side those three dots, it makes it really easy for me
to download those clips, delete those clips, share those clips, or even bulk delete those
clips.
Remember, if you're just using the free cloud services, it's only going to save these clips
for seven days. You may want to download specific ones or maybe something is embarrassing, you
want to delete it or maybe something funny happening, you just want to send it at the
people in your family.
Overall, it's really easy in an intuitive way to navigate your Event History and it's
something I wish other home security cameras adopted. That's a look at the Tend Mobile
Application for The Tend Indoor 2.
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Gabe: Here I am checking out the Tend Indoor 2's Daytime Vision and you can tell that the
video quality is pretty good. We're getting that 1080p High Definition and it can capture
most things in this room with that 125-degree field of view. We can go and give a little
bit globe test. Check it out. See what we have here...
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Gabe: Wow, the ocean really? That's pretty boring but you can go ahead and see how we
can zoom in. We can see South America pretty well and no matter where I am in this space,
you can make out my face. Overall, really happy with the video quality on the Tend Indoor
2 with the 1080p and 125-degree field of view.
Here I am checking out the night vision on the Tend Indoor 2. I'm about 10 feet away
yet, I can see my face pretty well. Looking at the camera you might be skeptical at first
but with the infrared LED you can see me so well, so detail. It's got a great perspective
of everything going on in this room despite of how dark it is, give it a little globe
test here.
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Gabe: You can really see, you have Asia here, Africa. I'm a huge fan of the food over here,
in West Africa, some of the best in the world. It's really [inaudible 15:28] on by everyone
else, but look at everything in this room, you can see the plants are all in full detail,
really impressive night vision with the infrared LED on the Tend Indoor 2.
Let's recap how the Tend Indoor 2 faired on a Security Baron necessary features test.
Stellar video, full marks, with that 1080p High Definition crisp clear video and 125-degree
field of video, it's really bringing it when it comes to video quality.
Two-way audio, full marks, you go to speak and be heard by anyone who's in the space
or vicinity of the Tend Indoor 2. Night vision, full marks, with the infrared LED you get
a really clear picture of what's taking place in the dark.
Local and cloud storage, half marks, the Tend Indoor 2 does not have a local storage option
but has a pretty sweet cloud storage option with free seven days.
Smart platform integration, half marks, the Tend Indoor 2 does integrate with Amazon's
Virtual Assistant but with limited functionality. Artificial Intelligence, full marks, the Tend
Indoor 2 has facial recognition technology allowing you to know exactly who's coming
in and out of your home.
Convenience, full marks, you can have the Tend Indoor 2 up and running in no time at
all. Value, full marks, the Tend Indoor 2 cost less than $60 but it's bringing you a
very valuable feature set.
All right, we've come a long way with the Tend Indoor 2 but you want to know, "Hey,
Gabe, is this the right device for me?"
I'm not really sure unless I'm...Let me break it all down for you, you have impressive video
quality. We're talking 1080p High Definition video. You have Artificial Intelligence and
that I mean, a Facial Recognition Library that can get to know the faces of you and
your loved ones.
You also have seven days of cloud storage where you can view and share clips, download
them forever, do whatever you like. Finally, this is a great app that makes that into a
coherent process all together. 4.7 in the Apple App store, 4.6 in the Google Play Store,
you really can't beat that.
If you're looking for a robust smart platform integration or local storage, you're not going
to get that with Tend Indoor 2 but overall, it's a really strong home security camera
coming in at a very affordable price of $59.99 and should definitely be something you look
at when looking out for you and your family's safety.
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