- Have you been wanting to install security cameras
on the outside of your house,
but haven't done it
simply because of hassle of installing,
wiring on the outside of your house
or dealing with wireless systems,
have to change batteries all the time,
you have to get ladder and take it up and down.
Personally, that's why I haven't done it,
and if you're in the same boat as I am,
today, I have a product that would definitely help you out,
and it is called the Netatmo Smart Security Camera.
And this actually gets replaced,
right where you already have existing lighting
on the outside of your house.
So let's go ahead and check it out.
Welcome back friends.
If this, your first time here, my name is Eric.
If you're in to smart homes,
home automation, especially home kit,
you're definitely in the right place.
Today's video is a part of my home kit series,
but the Netatmo smart camera does work with lady a
and also Google.
I'll be leaving a full pros and cons list on my website,
so if you want to get an update on this product
or more information,
definitely check out that link down below.
For full disclosure,
Natatmo did send this out to me on a media loan,
but that's not going to sway my opinion
in one way or another.
If I'll like something I'm definitely going to let you know.
So let's go ahead and jump into the unboxing
and see what comes with this.
First thing you come across is the camera itself
and has the mount,
and has the wiring all there put together for you.
There is a couple of things that you have to do
in the install which I'll get into,
but this is pretty much everything.
It does have the camera at the bottom,
which is a four megapixel camera
with 100 degree field of vision
with the resolution of 1920 by 1080,
which is a 1080P camera,
and then up at top,
you can see all the flood lights,
they are LEDs and altogether it's about 12 Watts,
which are dimmable,
which they say equals out to 120 Watts of halogen light,
and it's actually pretty bright.
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Also among the led floodlights,
you'll notice the infrared nightlights,
which they say can detect up to about 15 meters
or about 50 feet.
At the bottom of the devise you'll find a removable panel,
which does have the micro SD card.
In my particular case, it came with a 16 gigabytes,
even though on the website,
it does say comes only with eight gigabytes,
so it looks like they did upgrade it here.
Also included in this version is a siren
that they say can go up to about 105 decibels.
I was able to get about 130
without actually taking the sound meter
and putting it on top of the device,
but I don't think it was really that loud.
It's not going to get the attention of your neighbors,
but if someone is breaking in
and you do want to scare them way,
I definitely think this will do the job.
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They also include all the hardware
and wiring that you need to install this.
You'll notice there is zip tie on the device.
Don't cut this off.
It's actually there on purpose which I'll show you later
what this is used for.
Now we'll be installing this on my deck
that does have a light on the exterior of the house,
that is controlled by a switch on the interior of the house.
Now you might be asking me how this is going to work,
because if someone switches that switch off,
that's going to turn off the power to this smart camera.
Any would definitely be correct,
however, I will be rewiring that switch with a smart switch.
That way the camera still has constant power,
and I can control the lighting from the switch
through automations.
When it came to installation it is fairly simple,
but if you're not comfortable with electricity
or if you run into a situation
that you're not quite sure about,
definitely seek out professional help.
First thing you want to do is turn off that power.
Go ahead and remove your old light from the exterior house,
and make sure that power is actually off.
Trying to rewire with two hands
and hop a light at the same time is nearly impossible.
So having this zip tie is definitely incredibly useful.
You then will connect the wires
from the house to the camera,
which you will have to trim the wires just a little bit,
just because of the adaptor they have,
which I've never seen before,
but I actually really, really like it.
Follow the instructions in the manual to make sure
you connect them the right wires in the correct place.
Once you do that,
go ahead, tuck all the wires back in
and screw in the plate.
Once you've done that,
go ahead and lock down the actual camera to the plate,
but don't fully tighten it just yet.
You want to make sure you go ahead
and turn the power back on,
then come back up,
and once you're in the app and
you can see where the camera's pointed
and you're happy with that location,
that's when you can actually lock the camera down
so it won't move,
but don't do that just yet
until you're happy with the location.
And when it comes to rewiring the switch,
you will be taking the live wire,
otherwise known as the hot wire to both power the camera
and also the smart switch.
First thing you want to do is check your local laws
and regulations to make sure this is actually legal
and you're comfortable with this.
If you are not comfortable with this,
there's two other solutions.
One is that you can tape over your existing switch.
It does have an eyesore and this still has a potential
of someone turning off.
And then the second solution,
which is a better solution is a lock
or cover for the toggle switch.
Or if you have a paddle switch,
they also make locks for those paddle switches.
And if you can't identify the line wire right away,
definitely cap off all the wires individually,
go back downstairs, turn on the power, come back up,
take your a little electrical meter
and whichever one is hot is your line wire.
Go back downstairs,
turn it off the power,
then come back up and start rewiring this.
You want to tie both the load wire
and the switch to the line wire in one consecutive bundle.
Hang on your situation.
There's other ways you can do this
with little pigtails and stuff.
It's up to your preference
and what you feel comfortable with.
The load wire from the switch,
you can go ahead and cap that off.
That is not needed in this install.
Had entire neutral wires all together and your
ground, and go ahead,
put everything back in and you're all done. Go ahead,
go back downstairs, turn on the power and come back up.
But you can see both the smart switch and the ex Sierra
camera both have power.
Of course the switch is not currently going to work with the
light just because you have to set up the automations,
but it's quite easy to do. But before you do that,
you do want to set up the camera with home kit,
lady a and Google.
I'm going to primary focus on home kit because that's my
personal preference,
but I'm also going to briefly show you how to do this in
lady a and just a few measurements.
First thing you want to do is download the Natatmo app and
set up an account. Go ahead and walk through the process of,
of install and have you whore below card up to the camera.
One thing I do want to mention with the card is that you
want to make sure you hold up the correct side.
One side of the card is a reset and one side of the card is
installed. Make sure you hold up
the in stock you are, Oh,
I mentioned is that you want to make sure you have good wifi
coverage to where you install this light.
You can easily check the signal from your phone,
just sitting outside and seeing how strong that signal is.
If it's not very strong,
you definitely want to work on your wifi system a little
bit. Next, you want to set this up with home kit,
have you go into the home app,
hit the plus and top right corner, hit accessory,
and then scan the QR code that they also include on a
different card. Once you do that,
that were automatically add it to home kit.
And you're good to go.
Now, this is all set up with the app and also home kit.
One of the first things that you noticed is the footage is
quite nice coming in and at 1080P,
I was actually quite happy with this footage,
even though I think the field of vision is quite narrow only
in my particular case though,
because of the cameras installed only five or six feet off
the deck where a lot of people are going to be installing
this a lot higher, in most cases where that field of vision,
you don't want something super wide when it's installed so
high.
So I understand why they have the field of vision a little
bit smaller, but I understand why they did what they did.
And at the end of the day,
everything that I need to see is in that field of vision,
so I am quite happy. Now, jumping into the Natatmo app,
you will have all your clips on that very first page,
and also we can hit live to see live footage,
but did find that you have to hit live and then also hit
play.
It would be a little bit nicer and easier if you just hit
live and it would automatically play,
I'm not quite sure why they did that for it,
but it was a little extra step.
Also found a low combin song.
When you have to on the light in the app,
you have to go to your settings and then turn on the light.
It's an extra step.
It would be nicer if it was on the main page,
same thing with the alarm,
even though I understand that some people don't want to
accidentally set off the alarm,
but if you need to do that in a hurry,
you still have to go through the extra step,
which is a little bit of a hassle.
This alarm feature is only mainly set off
in the Natatmo app.
You cannot do it in home app and you can not set up any
automations. However,
you can have the light to turn on our Mackley based off
motion. It's up to your preference,
what you want to come on automatically with motion alerts,
you can have just an Natatmo spotlight come on or through
automations in HomeKit.
You can have other sensories also get triggered with the
Myron, turn on,
if there's any motion,
it will start recording to the SD card,
and they also send a notification if you have that setting
on, and what's really nice that it will identify people,
animals, and also cars.
I did find that it was 95% correct,
and the 5% of the time that it did get wrong,
you can actually improve detection by telling it what it is.
For instance, it kept making that my grill was a car,
every time the sun would hit it, I just identified
that was none of the above and after three or four times,
it actually stopped giving me notifications.
So it was definitely an extremely smart system. In addition,
to reduce some false notifications and recordings,
you can set up motion zones,
which they do allow for zones in the screen,
but they cannot cross each other.
You just want to square out the area that you want,
and if you need to add a second square or two or three or
four, you can definitely do so that way you can identify the
specific area that you want to be notified of.
Now, in addition, saving those clips to be SD card,
you also have the option of sending it to an FTP server
if you have one, or also Dropbox actually was quite nice.
I sent it to Dropbox and it store all the footage in any
resolution that wanted, I blew out my Dropbox in no time.
So if you do want to do that,
you do want to reduce the resolution,
so you fill up your Dropbox too fast,
or at least the lead it, you know,
maybe once or twice a week,
because you don't need the footage anymore. Another option,
hopefully in the near future will be home kit, secure video.
This does work with home kit and you can see a live feed.
You can also automate if it does have any motion,
you can get notifications if you set that up through
HomeKit.
But unfortunately it does not work with HomeKit secure
video. So there's no way of saving this clips in home kit.
Hopefully that will be coming in the near future.
That's saying this up with lady a is also extremely easy.
All you need to do is go to the lady eight app,
go into the skills and look for them
that's had most skill. Once you're in there, go ahead,
log into your Natatmo account,
and you're good to go.
The only other small con I have with this device,
unfortunately, is the pricing. With the siren,
this thing is over $300, which is quite expensive,
even though it is one of the only outdoor cameras with
lighting that works with home kit.
I still find it a little bit expensive.
I would expect this to be around the 200 to two 50 range.
They do however, have another version without the siren.
So if you don't have a user case for the siren,
definitely pick up the other version.
They're pretty much identical and save a little bit of money
there, but otherwise this is a great camera.
I've been using this for a couple of weeks now.
No issues whatsoever and I'm quite happy with this.
Unfortunately I do have to return this unless they want to
work something out, hint, hint,
and I can't wait to see what else they come out with and
hint, doorbell.
Now, hopefully that will be coming out soon.
I'm extremely excited for Natatmo doorbell and
hopefully they will let me review that on this channel
also. You guys have any questions about them, the Natatmo,
outdoor smart camera and lighting with the siren,
let me know down below or check out my full pros and cons
list on my website for update.
And if you guys haven't already made sure you smash that
like by real,
let's me know that you guys like videos like this.
And if you didn't let me know down in the comments, why,
if you guys want to see the next video in my home kit
series, check out that video right there,
and I'll see you next time.
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