hey everyone my name is Sam and I'm Angela and we're Green Acre Homestead
we have something a little bit different today we have an upgrade of our
homestead security system for you guys so we were contacted by a company called
Reolink and they wanted us to test out their wireless security cameras we get a
lot of contacts from companies want us to test something that most of the time
we say no to but this was actually something that we both wanted to check
out because of a few reasons one being our existing system we have here is old
how old it's probably at least a year and a half two years and it cuts in and
out a lot and it's not really reliable anymore yeah they are a different name
brand I won't bash that name brand of the camera necessarily but they were
supposed to be ready for outdoor use and everything and within a couple of weeks
the full-color pictures mostly went to purple haze
we still Steve stuff we still got alerts and everything it just everything was
purple so we didn't have plans to upgrade our system but when we were
contacted by REO link we decided okay this is a product video we'd be willing
to do because there's benefit to us in the last couple of years the reason why
we actually got our other security cameras was we had a theft on our
homestead somebody in the middle of the night came in and stole huge our
trailers utility trailers which were also full of all of our lawn equipment
so it was kind of a big deal yep that was a shock for us because we're out
here in the country and you feel like people in the area are okay and then the
last thing you would think is somebody would be as bold enough to come on your
property and take two trailers we don't know for sure because obviously we
didn't see it but we figure they put the small trailer and the big one and then
hold them off crazy yeah
so tell them why do we need cameras or why would we want cameras here on our
little homestead it becomes really good job
yep what am I trying hey Joanne just asked me so what do you think are some
good reasons to have cameras on a homestead we definitely like have oh so
awkward thank you back to you Stan well they're
only eight okay so we've tried we've tried to shoot this
takes our time so we're just gonna wing it the reasons we have cameras on our
homestead animals kids like where are the kids
I don't hear any sounds are they still alive probably but where are they and
predators predators and the bars people and animals it's very useful in the barn
because you can keep an eye on your animals and you can also check out if
it's time for lambing or kidding season the biggest benefit for our sheep since
we don't breed our sheep is keep an eye on the hay and water and then go easy
and around our chicken coop because we've had predators in the past and it's
nice to know what you're dealing with and so you can catch them on camera and
know what to do from there that's right
horrible goofy stage probably entertaining at least it's better than
you know this is a good camera I got them for free by the camera
so that's an easier way put this up there and then I can attach the sorghum
so let's talk about installation there were a couple of four-letter words that
came to my head a couple times but I was kind of new to him so you know what new
to four-letter words no the camera
anyway so installation wasn't too bad there were a couple of times trying to
get the bracket on to the back of the camera that flight the thread was too
small or something that just made it really difficult it was pretty difficult
it could be sausage finger itis but it could also just be kind of mmm it D
system that being said once they're installed and put together pretty solid
mm-hmm what about the bracket on that twisting camera that bracket is tall
that this well that bracket is all plastic and I'm actually a little
concerned about its durability and strength given its there it's attached
it's locked together unless something hits it it shouldn't be a problem but I
mean well after it's been in the Sun for a year or so it seems like it's gonna
degrade the plastic more I could bet something we'll have to keep an eye on
it cost me treat the plastic though yeah keep an eye on it as far as video
quality for these they're really really nice they are there are two settings in
the app called fluent which is pretty much potato cam and then 1080p which is
high-definition potato we've heard that before right
a potato phone no no hado cam it's like you took a picture of the potato it's
that great quality okay just imagine so the quality is really good in addition
to that these cameras also have the ability where you can listen to the
whatever it's watching so we could listen to the Sheep eat or do other
things that sheep do and the same thing with the kids if kids are around or
people or whatever in addition to that there's also a feature where you can
talk through the camera like an intercom but that speaker is just loud enough to
really freak someone out thinking that they're probably schizophrenic or here
a ghost so it's probably not gonna scare them away so there is a link to the
website below if you want to check out these cameras we'll put some links to
them on Amazon as well if you'd rather check them out there and the company
also give us a discount code for anyone to use should you go through their
website all that information is down below in the description thanks for
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